Omaha daily bee., 1896-04-05
EASTER SUNDAY HEADCEAR
This Year Bright oolors Will 30 the Pre-
vailing Fad.
WILL Be SEEN AT The CHURCHES TODAY
The Little Toruc VIII lie The Cor
rect Thing, but In summer
it VIII give Way 10
the Zig Hat.

Some folks who have a profound knowledge
of the customs and manners Of the people
Of the first Christian era declare that the
idea was eXtant during that early period.
Others say that the new garments and bright
colored hats did not com into vogue until
medieval times. However this may be, the
fact remains that for a long term Of years
church-going women have felt 1t absolutely
incumbent upon them to appear in bright
array on Easter Sunday. Indeed SO preva-
lent has the idea become that it has extended
its influence over the sterner sex, and even
reached those classes that rarely see the
inside of a church and who bear witness to
their regard for the day by adding a humble
flower or a modest ribbon to their dress.
This year will prove no exception to the
rule. If the sun shines as brightly on Omaha
today as 1t did last Sunday, there will be
thousands of new and beautiful specimens of
the milliners' handiwork, and almost as
many bright, new gowns and a large number
of handsome coats seen about town. The
modistes and the m%illiners have been busy
during the week past preparing gowns and
turbans for their fashionable patrons. The
trade has been larger in this city than for
several years past. and should the day prove
to be fair the Easter assemblage at any one
Of the leading churches will form a brilliant
spectacle. When the fair daughter of Eve
dons her new gown, reluctantly covers UP a
portion of II with a brand new coat, tugs on
her fresh, dainty gloves, gets her new hat
on straight and then pins on the flowers her
best young man has thoughtfully sent her
she may fairly remark; Now, / suppose I'm
arrayed like one Of those"
There are many beautiful STYLES that will
be ushered in today. They represent long
hours of study and much patient toll upon
the part Of those who have TO put into
execution the plans given them by the de-
signers.
In a general way it may be remarked that
small hats, turbans and toques will be seen
more often than any other styles of headgear.
This does not mean that the plague-of-the-
theater style hat will not be worn DIT all.
On the contrary, there are some women who
would not look we'll in any other but a large
hat, and there are many more who would
not be satisfied If they could not put a
monument of feathers and a whole flower
garden on top Of their heads, whether the
bulky article suits their beauty or not.
SMALL HATS POPULAR.
On Easter Sunday and throughout the
early part of the spring it will be the cor
rect thing to wear a small hat. Toques
will be popular, and those who are fond of
the natty turban can still cling to that trim
little article and feel that they are in good
form. AS spring grows later, larger hats
will come into vogue, and by the time the
Creighton and the Boyd have closed their
doors for the summer it Will be all right
to resume wearing the big hats. There is no
!ronclad rule, though, about the dimensions
Of the proper Easter hat. One can't express
what best suits a woman in inches or
ounces.
Dark, stable eolors are to be preferred,
black, brown, green and other substantial
colors being most popular. Mixed straws of
darl; effect have the sanction OF the up-to-
date milliners. Quilts and wings are used
to some extent, and in ribbons Persian effects
are in great demand. In the way of
trimming, tulle and maline are being much
used. The distinguishing feature, however,
of the Easter hat of 1896 is the presence of
a multitude of flowers. Flowers and flowers,
and flowers are being used. The most
stunning hats that will be worn by the
fin-de-siecle maldens today will appear like
veritable gardens. The flowers are clustered
around the back of the dainty little hats,
and no one flower seems to have the cal!
over any other. Formerly violets and v.o-
let's alone were the correct thing fer Easter
hats. The day of the violets ascendancy
has passed. Vio'ets will be worn this year,
and in considerable quantities, too, but this
year there are others. Roses and asters are
especially desirable and afford a welcome
change to the multitude of vlolets hereto
fore presented on Easter Sunday. Foliage is
being used by a great many milliners, who
use nothing but the latest styles. AS one
milliner told The Bee reporter, you Simply
can't go astray on flowers this year; only
get lots of them"
"You will be surprised to learn that dur
ing the week many new hats have been
purchased that will not be worn on Easter
Sunday, nor for several weeks a~fterward,"
said another prominent milliner. This is
due 70 several reasons, principally, perhaps,
because women come in and find a hat they
want, but which they are not quite ready
to put on and wear. They like the pattern,
and are afraid to overlook it for fear some
ons else will get 1t. So they purchase the
hat and save it for a time. OF course, the
people who do this have something suitable
that they can wear Easter Sunday, probably
something made over. Then, too, it is no
longer an unwritten law that one must
appear in a new hat on Easter day. Some
folks whom l know won't wear a new hat
or a new coat, or a new gown ON that day
Just because everybody else does. and they
want to be different from the majority Of
folks. The Catholics and the Episcopalians,
| think, are more prone to come out in
bright raiment and new headgear on Easter
than any other Glass;
THEIR BUSINESS DOOMED.
All the milliners report that their trade
during the past week has been good, and
much better than 1t was during the CORE
week last year. Monday was an
good day for all of the local MILL
ners. The warm weather last Sunday doubt
less had the effect of hurrying the trade a
bit. But the several raw days that followed
did not stop the rush. Business was not so
good on Tuesday as it was on Monday, but
it was very fair. On both Tuesday and
Wednesday there was considerable transient
trade. The milliners' regular patrons, the
ones on whom they depend from year to
year, put in their orders rather early this
season, indicating a desire not to be left in
the mad rush that always precedes Easter
Sunday. The millinery business depends a
great deal on the weather. The feelings Of
a milliner on a rainy day can only be appre-
by a base ball manager as he hangs up
the sign, Game postponed ON account of
On days full of warmth and sunshine
the young woman's thoughts lightly turn to
she shall wear on her head
On Easter Sunday. But II a driving rain or
a furry Of snow comes along she forgets all
about her Easter hat and does not allow her
to rise above the collar of her
macintosh.
There are not so many high-priced hats
being purchased as a few years ago. The
young women who used to refuse
to look at a hat unless 1t cost $25 are this
year carefully inspecting the stock of SIS
hats. There are some hats being bought
At $25, $50 and even 1876 each, but not so
many of them as were purchased five yearo
The popular price for a stylish spring
nat this year is between SIS and 500. The
majority OF the hats that will be worn
.oday by the society women OF Omaha will
De paid for at the rate OF $~16-$l8-each.
The expression, twill be paid for" is used
for very few sales of Easter
N nafa aFn made ttn1n N zach haHta "a |