Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1920 — LINES SUIT FACE [ARTICLE]

LINES SUIT FACE

Late French Hats Are Modeled to Adorn the Wearer. Feathers, Velvet and Ribbons Are Deftly Arranged to Afford Most Becoming Headgear. The late French hats for winter are practically a collection of lines —lines elusive and obscure, lines impossible and strange, lines pure and girlish, but always the lines that suit the face they are built to accompany. This may sound easy, but it isn’t It takes an artist to construct a hat of the proper lipes which will look smart and trim. But the French, when it comes to hats, are the leaders of the world. A French milliner takes a small piece of velvet, and lo! before your very eyes she has produced a hat which is the joy of all beholders. The prettiest French hats one can take into her hand and crush into a round batt; "There seems to be frame and no foundation, and yet they are perfect frames for the faces they adori* Ostrich feathers of all sorts have a fascinating way of curling over the ears and necks Of their - wearers. The hats are black or of very dark cok>rs~&nd the feathers are bright. Many variations of the Tam o’ Shanter are showm by the French modistes. They are large or small, trimmed or untrimmed, for sport or for dress, but at any rate the Tam o’ Shanter In one form or another seems to be an indispensable part of the hat equipment of 1920. They are made of velvet or of hatter’s plush or of tiny ribbons shirred and sewed round and round, and they are in solid colons when they are smartest. Feather and coque turbans are distinctly good and these come in many daring colors, worn usually with no trimming but with an exquisite lace veil. The veil is more an ornameht for the hat than a protection for the face. - Picture hats, ’wide and spreading for wear with the 4 old-fashioned French costumes and with those that follow the Spanish influence. These are made of hatter’3 pltish or of velvet, beautifully sewn; and their rather high crowns are made soft enough io fit over the head. Sometimes there is a suggestion of trimming about them, but more often they have on inconspicuous band of ribbon. There is a - popular turban of matine made over a sparkling metal brocaded band. It is simply a puff of the tulle with the color of the band showing through around the headsize, and then a puff of the tulle droops over the right ear.