Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-09-24
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as yet, and has been adopted only ~ sne
few.
ouiry about short locks was received
| with scorn. Short hair has gone out,
even In Grand street. So has bleaching.
The proper thing now is the Grecian
stvle. with waves and a knot in the back
and all that sort of thing. That is
for the house. The correct thing for
the street, and especially with a sailor
hat. is to arrange the hair in several
braids. and make door mat on the
back of the head. For weddings there
are celebrations which dazzle the eye
by their iatricacy. 1t is at these times
that the hair-dresser gets in his artistic
work. he says be can scent prospec-
tive bride from o far OF and that his
spirit leaps up to the work.
A wedding couture on the east side Is
a fearful and wonderful thing to behold.
But the hair-dresser recks not Of trouble
in this opportunity to display his art
His fingers itch, as it were, for the
erection of bridal colffures and were he
an old.time heather he would sacrifice
to Hymen seven days out OF the week.
A Disk for . Hat.
A number of Newark hat manufac-
turers are now busy In making perfect
" fat hats for women. They are mere
disks OF felt, which the milllners twist
and bend into fantastic forms. Crowns
which are mere rings OF felt or other
material are seWed upon the under side
of the fat plaques, sometimes IN the
centre, but often at the side or rear OF
the centre. The felt disks are fifteen
inches in diameter, and are only slight
stiffened. The demand Is exceedingly
brisk just now, and six or seven New
ark firms are making them.
Many patents have been obtained
upon this simple fat disk OF felt ana
the process Of making it. The most i'm
portant patent is one for splitting the
PLAQUES and cementlng the pieces TO-
gether. There Is a great advantage In
this, rot only because 1t enables them
to make hats of two different colors,
over and under, but it makes disk OF
greater durability and Stiffness Tor the
weight Of the fur used.
Heretofore all fur hats have been
formed by blowing the fur upon per-
forated cone and shrinking them with
steam or hot cloths. In making the nat
plaoues most of the manufacturers have
been blowing them upon low cones and
Hattening them In the sizing process.
One firm devised q process for blowing
the disks fat and in a continuous strip,
and have made sizing maching for
working the fat material. They have
also machines for bouncing and hnlsh-
Ing the plaques.
Some Of the fat hats exhibited in the
milliners windows are dreams OF beauty
with gorgeous blendings OF color upon
the mapped upper surface and creamy
felt below. Others have a broad border
OF furry nap, or are full brush hats. A
few have low crowns, built up by n.y.
draulic pressure, but the dictum from
Paris is that the crown must be on the
under side, and hatters are now making
small shallow crowns OF felt TO be sewed
on. Some OF the French PLAQUES are
so limp that they can be formed into
tams and beef eaters, while others are
made much sitter, and will be supple
meuted with miliners' wire sewed I'M
der the rim. The American PLAQUES
are superior to the imported in every
respect, and are preferred by the MILL
mars