The morning times., 1895-12-08
Beauty's Head
Heavy Laden
LARGE HATS FILL THE SHOPS
OF PARIS.
Antoinette Brims of Rufffed Felt
and Crushed Velvet Tops
Are the Things.

Paris, Dec. eve find that, looking
1n the shop windows, Marie Antoinette
is In popular favor, and that fashions are
trending back to her-time. All the
shapes, coiors, and materials are after
the models of Marie Antoinette's day.
The shop windows at which we stopped
this morning, 1 and girl artist of New
York, U. S. A, might have been a repro
duction of Little Trianon or a scene in
the gardens OF Versailles, when the queen
with her ladies' around her enjoyed the
last taste of autumn weather in the country.
The hats were all nodded in one OF wo
or three styles. There was small diversity.
ard that offered by materials and a slight
degree Of individual fancy.
SUCH LARGE HATS.
The hats are all large. In New York, ]
hear, they are wearing the sidewalk nui-
sances with brims a foot wide. No less
are they doing so here. The Marie Anloi-
nette shape is guiltiest OF all.
The crowns of the hats are nearly all
of velvet. 1t is astonishing how many
velvet crowns you see forced upon ha's
that had no dream of velvet when their
shape was nodded. The velvet is placed
around the high part of the crown and gath
cred, not siirred, in great folds. This
makes a pleasing flatDess to the great
velvet middle. 1t is very much like a
Tam, as we hear about it, but quite differ
ent when you come 10 secit.
In the Marie Antoinettes the velvet lies
over the crown well towards thee brim.
IN many OF them it quite covers the top
of the brim. lying like a great orna amental
bag down on all sides of the top OF the hat.
The familiar trimmings are wings stood
up smartly in front with coronct OF rhine
stones fastening them to the hat These
wings are mostly white, tipped with the
color Of the velvet upon the hat.
We saw the Countess Castellane shop
ping in the Palais Royal a few days ago.
Very matronly the little lady looks with
her great wraps such as very young mar
ried women love to wear III Paris, and
her little dark face peepinG out from under
one of the wide brims.
The Countess was selecting a Marie
Antoinette of broad brimmed felt. This
is style different from the full velvet
gowns. 1t is large and stands out quite
stiff around the head. The upper side
Of the brim is trimmed with many rows
of fine satin ribbon. The one selected
by the Countess has three irregular rows
upon it; but the young lady who was with
her, said to be q Miss Richardson, OF New
York, chose one that had the ribbon run
ntng down to the edge of the brim in ragged
pain ways. Qulkc pTtlty VIC tuUuSub H.
THE oX-BLOoDS.
The color of the autumn hats is OK
blood red. This is shade quite diff
rerent from what you would Imagine
1t is orange to most eyes and brick
color to others. Beautiful ostrich feath-
ers OF black come tipped with the OK
blood. They glow like sparks from the
inner OF a furnace when the lights
around are out. A small hat OF sbirred
velvet CT this shade, with brim of black
velvet and two outstanding ostrich tips,
costs $40 in American money, and l was
going to say 200 francs in French money.
But no French woman would pay as
much for any bat, hardly for a whole
gown, SO it is better to say that the price is
$40 in American money.
The hats of the Paleis Royal and
other shops leok quite too delicate TO
be handled, and the French are the only
nation, / think, that will not permit you
to finger their goods. Each hat is inclosed
in a case, and if you wish to actually buy Il
saleswoman takes the chapeau from the
glass case and sets it carefully upon your
head. II the colors re frail she uses bit
of white tissue paper 10 keep Ii er hands from
touching it. You look at the hat, ad-
mire or condemn it, and it is taken off.
Not finger mark is visible.
Consequently in Paris the buying of
a hat ready made in a store gives a
woman a degree of prestige. She is
woman OF wealth and taste and fortunate,
too. In America how different! Shop
worn hats are so frequent that a lady
after picking out a bonnet to suit herself
orders it duplicated in fresh materials.
Turquoise blue is much used. 1t is a
deep, lovely shade, becoming to the red
blonde who Is so much found
among the natural-tinted girls.
n, to, -. t., cod
coverings. Five yards, the saleswoman in-
me, were piled and folded away
upon the crown OF one very large, beautiful
hat. / doubted her, and she cut a stitch
at the side and pulled out a fold before my
astonishcd eyes. Measured this fold con-
tanned yard of turquoise velvet half
yard wide
The brim that goes with the turquoise
is white. There is no use telling that
white hats are not worn for the street.
They greet you everywhere, like little
waiting for the first flakes.
In the front of the turquoise and white
hat is rhinestone ornament precisely
the shape of a crown. 1t is four inches
broad, filled with tiny stones, supplied
with a beautiful open-work pattern, and
Is as picturesque thing as you. would
want to see.
HATS VERY ELABORATE.
In Paris hats and capes are the two
most elaborate things of the toilet. This
Is strange but true. The hats are posi-
lively elegant. They are not SO very
new in shape, but are absolutely new in
material.
1 stepped up to one lovely hat with out
standing brim and great loups at the
sides. 1t was pale magenta, so very pale
that 1 thought 1t pink, yet it had the
touch of wine in 1t. The velvet was heaped
upon it as upon the other hats. The side
oops were a still paler shade of magenta,
with an open-work edging of velvet trim
ming, black and magenta. At the back
were owers-great, loose things that
ooked like begonias-and in front was a
bug.
We tried to find out no W the hats were
made. Few women but like 10 make one
hat a season, and what SO great
triumph as to make a Paris hat. We
that a large hat frame is
necessary. The kind that are being sent
over now are to be drawn slightly up
ward at either the back or front. They
are very large and are meant to be
,ntirely covered with velvet. Over the
velvet goes an ever SO tiny trimming
IF black jet beads, put ON in rows and
rows around the brim.
The crown has the great folded cover
ing. To do 1t well, stretch the velvet
md begin at any place along the edge
and fold in folds three inches wide. !