Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1918 — Closing Chapter of Winter Millinery [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Closing Chapter of Winter Millinery

The last chapter in the story of winter millinery is presented and the tale ' concludes with all-fur hats or hats i that are made of fur in combination with other things. Although shorter than the story, of velvet or other fabric hats, it is not so very brief as one might suppose. The Ingenuity of designers lengthens it. But after fur hats have been disposed one may write “finis” —winter is over, so far as new things in winter hats are concerned. In January millinery begins to be springlike; “between season” and “early spring” are the inspiration of millinery designers, who must then be occupied with the demands of southern tourists. But only a few people journey South, and those who remain in the lands of snow face two or three months of midwinter weather —hence a variety of fur bats Is needed. They are here in many shapes and combinations. Turbans and small shapes predominate among them, but there are large shapes with crowns of fur and j brims of velvet, or lace or malines I often with emplacements of fur on them. In the hats and turbans, feather crowns with fur brims | and feather coronets on turbans with fur crowns are new and beautiful ideas. . Besides feathers, furs are used in j combination with long-napped beaver Moth, satin and velvet in smaller hats ■

for covering shapes. In the larger hats fur is confined usually to the crown, but in some wide-brimmed picturesque models, in which dull silver and gold laces, or other transparent materials are used for the brim coverings, narrow borders or fringes, In fur like that on the crown, edge the brims. Many turbans and small hats have crowns covered with rows of ribbon—ln scant ruffles and brims covered with fur. e In the group of fur hats pictured the tall Cossack turban is especially smart. A round hat presents a combination of two on the crown and sealskin brim. The sealskin skating cap is the regulation and always fashionable type that appears each winter, this year with a fur button on the top. So large a proportion of suits and coats are fur trimmed, afid fur neckpieces and garments so universally worn that a vogue for fur hats to match was a logical conclu-, sion. It has arrived. 1