Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1897-12-02
HATS AND BONNErS.


Helpful Hints for Designers and Pur.
chasers.
The French this season are making
hats of brown to wear with sables and
mink furs or any colored rig, and the
brown-hAired woman is taking to them
with full appreciation Of her oppor-
tunitiea. But even with the rule that
every brown-haired woman looks wen
In brown, ono needs taste to carry out
the color scheme well after all. In the
hrst place, only the rich clear browns
must be used, and that excludes many
cheap materials OF dingy dyes. A dark
brown-haired girl with . colorless and
slightly sallow skin, should wear yel-
low browns and never russets, any thing
with red tending TO make her still more
oolorles. Yellow browns and tans,
then, with vivid touches Of green next
the face. or Of greenish blues, such a.
turquoise blue or robins egg blue. 1t
IL important to dress the head and
throat In these colors. the rest of the
toilet being possibly Of another that
she may fancy, but which does not sp-
proach her skin.
The brown-haired brunette, with
brown eyes and brown sldn, can wear
almost any brilliant brown, with blues
and reds and even oranges for contrast,
while the yellow brown-haired bru-
nette, with gold in her skin, and lit
tie, white, freckled nose, should wear
golden browns with yellows and mas
turtium colors. For these various types
there are the ecru brown wells, the yel-
low brown wells, and the chestnut
brown, in gauze and nets and chif,ons-
each should decide upon the one most
becoming and stick to il, and not buy
any brown veil regardless Of shade.
The great use of fur upon hats this
autumn gives these brown maidens no
end of chance for killing effects, -
sable, or mink, or brown aAtrakhan, or
brown bear, can all be used fetching
ly on brown hair, with q dash Of color
and mass of brown wings or feathers>
Gray wells, with gray hats, are very
lovely on those with pink and white
skins, and to be very up to date the veil
should be long one brought about the
throat and tied under the chin after
being secured trinity about the hat.
These lengths come In lace as well a.
In lace-edged nets and tulles, the ends
on the best often finished with rufaes
Of lace.
Black-haired women look especially
fetching IN violet or purple velvet
toques, with glossy iridescent black
wings and tails, and violets and pan
ses nesting next the hair, although
velvet rosettes, not unlike roses in form,
are more fashionable this season than
the artificial flower, unless we except
the ever popular violet.
A little blonde was charming on an
afternoon recently trying on dainty
bit of q theater bonnet composed OF tur-
quoise studded white lace butterfly,
with twist Of cloth Of gold and bit
Of ermine, tho whole veiled with pale
pink tulle, and a little yellow tip curl
Ing about next the gold hair. For a
Titan blonde there wns bonnet built
Of bunch Of sable tails dropping pret-
tily from a clump of cerise velvet ro-
settes, a shaded russet brown tip stand
ing up on the top of the head.
The gray-haired woman will find hsr-
monies in grays most becoming by fol-
lowing the general tone Of her hair,
which may be a steel or iron gray, or
a green gray. A harmony Of silver
and nickel grays with sparkling cut
steel and gray tips and black aigrette
Ia beautiful on iron-gray hair, dash
OF emerald green or Of turquoise blue
being added II the face Is colorless. II
the skin Is still brilliant, no relief is
needed, although for evening wear
coral or cerise is fetching and becom-
ing. If one has gray hair streaked or
tinged with yellow, greens and yellow
browns should be worn rather than
gray, this with purples or blues only
intensifying the yellow into an un-
pleasant dinginess. Yellow lace on
such hair is becoming by bringing out
the gray rather than the yellow, max
ing with bit Of green tips a charming
bonnet for dressy wear. Gray hair that
Is streaked with yellow should be treat
cd by a dermatologist who can restore
II to q silvery or iron gray Of even tone.
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