Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1916 — Late Summer Hats and Summer Furs [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Late Summer Hats and Summer Furs

Late summer hats hold a premonition of fall and winter, for they are of felt and velvet materials; which belong to cold weather headwear. Fashion is done with straw hats and anticipates the coming of a new season in those newly arrived sports hats of bright, gay-colored felts and In the picturesque black velvet dress hats which we have learned to expect in August, when they are not due until October. But these are really to be classed as between-seasons millinery, and with the incoming" of cold weather their day Is done, for they are destined to be replaced by, the more formal dress hats of midwinter. Soft and bright-colored felts for sports and street wear, especially those made in what are known as “sweater" colors; seem destined for a long-lived popularity. To start with, they have beauty to recommend them, and then the devotee of outdoor sports is likely to dwell in summery climes during a great part of the year. In 'the accompanying Illustration a «ew felt sailor is shown, having the

entire top covered with a big spider web made of chenille. A similar model is made of gold-colored felt with wheels of chenille, in several bright hues, applied about the crown. The scarf of ermine bordered with smokegray fox, shown in the picture, is a favored bit of neckwear for cool evenings. 'X The best-liked fur for summer wear remains a scarf made of the pelt of the white fox, or of some other skin that looks like It. One of these is pictured. worn with the very widebrimmed sailor of black velvet, which foreshadows the coming of many widebrimmed hats for fall and winter. Its sole trimming is a gorgeous dragon fly with body of irrtdescent beads and wings of gauze. He peers from the brim-edge—and will not depart, for, along with other bright-winged bugs, he has taken his position somewhere near the head of beautiful woman, to remain all winter as the most cherished of millinery ornaments.