Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1919 — Group of Hats for Young Women [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Group of Hats for Young Women

Facetious husbands speak of It as “spring miliionary,” with a spice of malice, and cartoonists are indulging in their annual pastime of poking fun at new spring hats. They Jibe but they admire, and leave no room for doubt that they take notice. Meantime the milliner,, with more assurance and serenity than ever, places such gems of the millinery art as are pictured here in her shop windows. There, after a brief triumph, they pass on to crown fair heads. The hat at the top reveals a transparent crown of malines, that Is Mocked like a braid crown. At its side there are semicircles joined by bands of piping bdald. This 4s set on to a milan brim faced with georgette and edged with a falling fold of this soft material. At the side one of the numerous small ornaments made of; ostrich, flues Is posed, and a stitched band of ribbon lies about the crown. A hat of piping braid is shown faced with satin, with a crushed sash of Wide i satin ribbon about the crown, with roses Bet against it at intervals. More flowers bloom on spring hats than for many seasons. The third hat has a crown of chrysanthemum braid and a milan brim that rolls .up at the edge. A gay wreath of flowers and fruit is posed against the crown and narrow ribbon is tied about It. This ends in a bow that lies flat to. the brim. There are a great many black hats in the spring displays, of lustrous straws, brightened with rib-

bons and flowers. Field flowers are popular on them, and occasional short lace veils falling from the back help out in producing quaint effects and bringing to mind millinery of long ago.