Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1917 — Dress Rehearsals of the Modes [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Dress Rehearsals of the Modes

In the heart of summer, when August Inclines us to forget that there is such a season as winter, the curtain rises on millinery styles for fall. Milliners., and merchants journey to the great fashion centers to view the dress rehearsals of the modes and to become acquainted with the headwear they are destined to sell when lea ves and snow are falling. Their patrons will not welcome these winter things as rapturously as they do those that acknowledge that winter millinery Is entitled to be called superb. There are no radical changes In styles so far as size and shapes are concerned. We are not to be Introduced to things so novel that we will have to be educated up to them. The same reserve Is apparent in millinery that characterizes dresses and suits. Colors are quiet and rich, materials are excellent and styles refined. Velvet Is destined to dominate the winter season unless the unexpected

happens and three fine exponents of the new modes, shown above, are all made of it. An aristocrat in millinery has a bulky crown, sponsored by t world-famed French house. It is of black velvet with brim-facing of white crepe with long stitches of heavy white silk, threaded about the crown. A collar of narrow white ribbon, with wired bow at the front, shows trimming reduced to simplest form. A design, equally smart and simple, appears in a small tire-brimmed hat, of platinum gray velvet, with brim bound with a soft band of feathers. This model has proven wonderfully becoming to older women. The remaining hat is a familiar and graceful shape with drooping brim presenting an unexpected cut out portion at the front.