The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-09-10
HOt-Weather Hats.

The hot-weather hats seen at rural
resorts are combinations of lace and
muslin, writes Clara Belle to the Ci,s-
ctnndt ERguirer-dainty hats of con@
secutive ruffles of lace, beginning in
close gathering at the center of the
crown and reaching to the edge of tha
brlm, made up on a net frame. The
muslin hats are of soft cotton or of silk.
null, shirred on wire and shaped in the
making, the muslin doubled and
forming a narrow ruffle at the edge
of the brim. The projecting brim
is now seen in the hats of the straw
braids, but more frequently they ara
an oval plaque, bent to the scoop shape,
so as to shade the face more certainly.
The trimming is large, radiating bow
of soft gross-grain ottoman satin or
velvet ribbon, of black, white, or some
delicate color, posed Immediately ON
the top, and the loops confined around
the crown with gilt pins having large
heads, or the common toilet pms con-.
cealed in the loops. Large poke bon.
nets for shade head-dresses are mora
frequent in the rough satin and tha
rough and ready braid than in the
more delicate that, as well as these.
enter into the shade hats. They are in
white, black, and all the solid and the
mixed cOlors of the spring and summed
straw manufacturers, and are quite as
popular for the country and the sea!
shore as the hats. They are similarly
trimmed; velvet is generally used for
facing those in black and the darker
and mixed colors, and shirred null or
lace faces those in white or the pale
colors. There is not much that is neW
to be told of either dress hats or dress
bonnets at this period of the season.
The ultra shapes in both seem to have
seen their day, and the more conserva-
tive shapes prevail. The close hats
with the tapering crown and slightly
projecting, turn-up brim are varied by
shapes with the same crown of q SINH
lar crown and the pointed poke, in
dented brim, curling back in front.
Hats for shade command all attention.
Some of them have wide, fiat brims in
'front.' rounding off and getting mar
rover toward the back, where tha
brim hardly exists at all; others hava
the flat brim equally wide all the way
around but turned up against tha
crown at the back; others again have
the brim set obliquely or turned I'D ON
one side only. The fiat brims are gems
orally combined with high crowns
One style has the brim bent down ae
the side, gypsy-fashion. Looking at q
woman front face when she has one OF
the hats on, hardly any hair is visible.
even if she does not adopt the new
mode OF no fringe. ....s.
By the way. will the editor kindly
allow me to put business advertiser
ment right into the tail end of this LETT
terP | have made an invention that in
just going to be a boon to my sex at
the seashOre, and what want is that
some capitalist shall put the money in
to the manufacture. L haven't applied
for a patent; but if l give the thing
away here l feel sure that nobody will
be mean enough to take advantage of
my conliding nature. 1t is so natural
for me to write all | know that / can't
resist the inclination. l call my devica
the camp-chair hustle. 1t consists Of
an ordinary hustle of wires and tapes,
to be worn in the usual manner under
the rear draperies of a woman's skirt
1t will serve all the purposes of deten1
sion and shapeliness requisite in the
fashionable hustle. Within this struct-
ure place specially contrived camp5
chair, light but sufficiently strong, and
so arranged that it will automatically
shut up tlat when the wearer stands
and open to receive her when she sits.
have experimental with model, and
L suffered some hard kerchugs before
the apparatus was perfected, but the
thing is now worthy of the confidence OF
the most sensitive girl, for it positively
will not betray her confidence. When
she lounges on the sand of the beach,;
and desires to be seated for awhile all
she has to do is to gracefully drop into
the invisible chair. The astounded OBJ,
server may conclude that she has four
legs of her own. but it isn't any of his
business anyhow.