Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1918 — Representative Hats for Young Girls [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Representative Hats for Young Girls

There is a greater difference this fall between the hats designed for grown-ups and* those intended for the young miss than has been evident for several seasons. It is because shapes for women are more subtle in lines than they have been. Fashion decrees simple trimmings and compels restrictions in the amount of handwork on millinery, therefore interest is obliged to center In shapes, and they are beautiful and unusual. But youth cannot follow the devious ways of today’s brims and_crowns in its millinery; even In the matter of the hats, shapes for misses must be frankly simple. Above there are grouped four hats, for girls from twelve to eighteen years old, that Include four representative shapes, and each hat differs in every way from all the others. -At the top there Is a quaint poke-bonnet affair, plainly covered with velvet and very demurely trimmed with a band of grosgrain ribbon and a bow at the back. The bow is small yrlth an upstanding loop against the crown andL two short ends on the brim. The designer might have stopped here if she chose to go to the limit of simplicity In trimming, but shb had not the courage to sacrifice the pretty effect of a bow and sash ends that fall from the'underbrim. They make just the finish needed for the girl from twelve to sixteen. . 'A hat for younger girls is shown at the right. It has a round crown and

a narrow drooping brim and is entirely covered with narrow ribbon put oh row after row. It is finished with a band of velvet ribbon tied in a bow at the'back with®two loops and two en<!s and is made in several colors and color combinations. Girls in their teens will like best of all the hat at the left. It has a wide and droopy brttn, falling into pretty curves at the edge and faced with crepe georgette. Plaited satin ribbon lies over the upper brim and the same ribbon is draped over the crown. A wired bow of narrow velvet ribbon, that finishes this lovely hat, convinces us that as long as milliners have ribbons they need nothing else for the young girl’s hat. At the bottom of the group is a hat to make glad the heart of the debutante. Its crown and brim are covered with ribbon and It is faced with velvet. There is a band of velvet ribbon about the crown slipped through two rings of jet or something that resembles it, giving the hat a grown-up %ir. But the brim is of uniform width all around and the plaited ribbon is a girlish garniture —two things that distinguish it from hats for young women.