Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1919 — Three Hats for Southern Tourists [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Three Hats for Southern Tourists

Such an exodus south Is promised, and is, in. fact). jmder_way.... that_tbe; business of furnishing apparel for southern tourists is a more important factor in merchandising than ever before. Nearly all these birds of passage among us mortals are people in easy circumstances, to say the least, and many of them are in a position to command the best In apparel, as in everything else that money can buy. It is an educated, discriminating and exacting taste in clothes that designers must satisfy when they undertake to suit the fashionables that congregate under sunny skies In midwinter. They are there to see and to be seen, and it is not likely that there is any greater fashion parade anywhere than in our own famed American winter resorts. In millinery there are hats that have their try-outs tn the South and become established as styles for spring; they 'are, therefore, interesting to every woman. A group of three of them appears above, one for dress, one for <tpruidress and one for gding-about, the last having a light wrap made to match it ' '<• • The semidress hat at the top of the group is a . favorite shape us times gone by, which reappears In this graceful interpretation of" the English walking hat Its brim, curving up at each

side, reveals a facing of brilliant sip-per-straw, bound at the edge with a harrow fold of satin. The crown Is entirely covered with satin, draped over it and tied at the back in the most casual way imaginable. At the front a basket of flowers is embroidered on the satin. This simple-seeming hat la. in reality, a difficult affair to make, for each separate little straw has to be placed In position with perfect accuracy. A hat of this kind might be made in any of the fashionable suiting colors with facing in black. At the left a satin-covered hat in black has a crown beruffled with hair-braid lace and a border of it falling from the brim edge. A bouquet of spring flowers Is posed against the side crown. It is a picturesque and summery creation —a forerunner of wide brimmed models that may be expected to arrive in force next summer. The sailor shape with soft crown, shown at the right, has no adornment but a big tassel. It is developed in beige colgr, yvitb braid brim and satin crown. The wide scarf ,has a long turned-back velvet collar and Is gathered at the back, from which long, heavy silk tassels are suspended,