Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1898 — Hep Hats All Made of Paper. [ARTICLE]

Hep Hats All Made of Paper.

A fashionable woman recently created a sensation at an afternoon luncheon in London by announcing that she had had fifteen hats during the summer. but that not one of them contained an inch of silk, satin, velvet or straw. They were entirely of paper, and to prove her assertion she displayed the natty black turban trimmed apparently with bauds of black silk, which she had worn to t.lie luncheon. On investigation it was found that t.he turban was covered .with dull black silk paper and trimmed with bands of the same material. These hats are, unfortunately, very expensive, but the woman who Is determined to do her own millinery can get a few yards of silk tissue paper, crinkled and plain, and experiment with it. She can make tissue roses and trim her hat with them, and she will find that they wear extremely well. She can face her hat with the tough Japanese variety of paper, and can otherwise decorate it about just as she pleases. Of course, with the use of paper the cost of the hat is extremely small, aud she can have as many as she pleases without spending more than a few dollars. But a paper hat from the milliner’s costs quite a large sum. They are placing so much wofk upon the paper flowers and the trimmings that it becomes necessary to charge well for them. Besides they are said to bo so beautiful that they command a high price, and it is readily paid. The advantages of tissue paper are many, the principal one of which is the color, which is said to be quite steadfast. French tissue, Japanese and silk paper are used. The paper comes striped in all colors, flowered, crinkled and plain. It is as tough as silk and much more durable than mull or chiffon.—Philadelphia Record.