Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1919 — The Picturesque Millinery of Midsummer [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Picturesque Millinery of Midsummer

It Is glorious summer in millinery showrooms. Garden and field flowers make wide-brimmed, graceful hats radiant with color and headweilr more joyous than it has been for many n year. For a long time flowers were all but banished as a decoration for hats —a peevish-minded public would not have them. A conviction grew and became settled that there lovely trimmings would not return; yet, of all things, flowers are the most logical crown for beautiful heads. \\ hen a season of real rejoicing arrived, along with victory, they sprang into bloom. The beloved rose and violet and all the friendly little flowers and fruits are restored to favor and are fairly frolieking fill over the picturesque millinery of midsummer. If flowers happen to be not represented, then ribbons that reflect their beautiful colors and surface t:ik,e ( the place of the new hats. There fPre four hats for the heart of summer shown In the group above. At the top a broad-brimmed shape Is covered with crepe georgette in white; rids beautiful TnbrTc, which seems akin to flowers, makes a perfect background for tin* clusters of small grapes that clamber about the crown.

They are in several colors, ranging betweon pale green and n soft purplish red, colorings of the natural grape. This is an adorable hat and suited to matrons as well as younger women. Just below a distinctly youthful leghorn appears at the right of the group. Very wide satin ribbon in rose color is draped about the brim and crown in a sash that is knotted at intervals. This provides the color and sheen of flowers and entls inu how which droops from the brim-edge at the hack. It would be a bleak midsummer in th<* millinery world if there were no big black hats, more or less transparent, to flow in perfect lines about the head of the summer girl. This summer will bmist many of them. At the left of the group above there Is a hat having a crown of milan straw and a brim of lace braid. Its edge wire is covered with velvet. There Is a sash of black ribbon about the crown and a glorious rose is posed against it. A smaller black hat has a braid crown, partly transparent, and a brim <>f malines. It has also a sash of ribbon, but a cluster of garden flowers shares the glory of a rose set In their midst.