Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 173, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1919 — NOVELTIES IN SUMMER HATS [ARTICLE]

NOVELTIES IN SUMMER HATS

Fine Straw Regarded as an Excellent Selection as It Can Be Made Over Many Times. If you are going to have several hats this season, by all means choose one that is of rather fine straw, and has a medium high crown and a medium wide brim. Buying such a hat is real hat economy, for such a chapeau can be used over and over again for several seasons, because a large hat is always good style every midsummer, anyway, and a conservative brim and crown make the hat, if becoming In color and smartly trimmed, in good taste any year. A pretty brunette who selected a hat of this type four years ago is still wearing it and having it admired, because it has been so easy to make chic each season. Her hat was originally a light gray hemp with a plain crown and brim, and was trimmed the first year with a three-lnch band of black velvet around the base of the crown, and a gay wreath of field flowers, such as scarlet poppies, daisies and buttercups, on the brim. The next year the same hat was faced with pink crepe de chine on the under brim, and a dainty wreath of blue forget-me-nots and tiny pink rose buds was the trimming which gave It a delicate pastel effect that made It a thing of beauty to wear with an oyster-colored silk suit. The third season It was colored a soft leaf green with hat dye (of which there are half a dozen good kinds), the pink facing freshly pinkened with dye also, and the trimming consisted of a band of darker green velvet around the crown, which was embroidered In coarse stitches with silk in shadow lawn green, purple and a touch of magenta, and it received the most compliments of all this third year. This year this clever home milliner is going to dye her durable hat a dark, but rather bright blue. It will have the same pink underfacing, and the trimming will consist of a very wide dark blue satin ribbon with a Roman stripe or two in pink, that will be draped loosely, sash fashion, around the brim of the hat and fringed at the ends, which will droop from the left side of the brim, the hat will be worn with a blue sport suit and a flesh-colored blouse.