Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-10-01
Hot-Wcather Hats.


The hot-wcather hats seen Mt rural
resorts are combinations of lace and
muslin, writes Clara Belle TO the Ciai-
cinaati Eng ,fser-dainiy halls OF con-
secutiye RULES of lace. beginning in
close gathering ut the center OF the
crown and reaching to the edge of the
brim. made up on 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 narrow ruflis at the edge
of the brim. The projecting brim
is now seen in the hats of the straw
braids, but more frequently they are
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 more
frequent In the rough satin and the
rough and ready braid than in the
more delicate that, as we'll as these,
enter into the shade hats. They are in
white, black, and all the solid and the
mixed colors of the spring and summer
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
fan l. 81 L.
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 conserya-
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 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, Hat brims in
front, rounding off and getting mar
rover toward the back, where the
brim hardly exists at all; others have
the Hat brim equally wide all the way
around but turned up against the
crown ut the back; others again have
the brim set obiquely or turned up on
one side only. The Hat brims are gem
orally combined with high crowns.
One style has the brim bent down at
the side, gypsy-fashion. Looking at
woman front face when she has one of
the hats on, hardly any hair is visible,
even II she docs not adopt the new
mode OF no fringe.
BY the way, VIII the editor kindly
allow me to put 4 business advertise
mcnt right into the tail end of this let
tel? | have made an invention that is
| just going to DC II boon to my sex ut
inc scashorc, and what want is that
some capitalist shall put the mon,y in
to the manufacture. l haven't applied
Tor patent; but il / give the lining
away here | ieel sure that nobody VIII
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. call my device
the camp-chair hustle. 1t consists of
an ordinary hustle of wires and tapes,
10 be worn III the usual manner under
the rear draperies OF Il woman's skirt.
1t wlil serve ali the purposes OF dctcn-
Sion and shapellneSs requisite i'll the
fashionable hustle. Within this struct-
ure place specially contriycd camp
chair, light bul Sufficiently strong. and
so arranged that il will automatically
smut up Hat when the wcarcr stands,
aisi open TO receive her whea she sits.
have experimental with Il model, and
l Suffered SOM hard kcrcnugs before
the apparatus was perice.cd, out the
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the most sensitive girl, Tor 1t positively
will not bctraS her confidence. When
she lounges on the sand OF the beach,
and desires to be seated Tor awhile, all
she has to do is TO gracefully drop into
the invisible chair. Inc lsloundcd OBJ
server may Conclude that shc ha, four
legs vi her own, bat it lsa amy OF his
business anyhow.