The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-25
THE "BRoNCHo" HAT.
How It Has Afflicted the Northern
Towns

1 fed from the "Broncho" hat in Salt
Lake. as though from a pestilence. 1
had seen it. during an enforced idle
ness swarm up and down Main street in
all its hideous colors; red, white, gray,
drab, green, buff. and almost every
other shade that a lady of culture
would not care to wear.
why this craZe?' l asked a friend.
'Oh, it's the fad" he said. "The fad
Wore itself out in about two weeks in
the larger cities of the east years
ago, and the eastern dealers, stuck with
a large quantity of the monstrosities.
determined TO try them on the west
ern dog: with the success you have
seem
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But if Salt Lake was gay with color
you should have seen Pocatello on
Sunday parade. A -..sbroncho" sur
mounted the Uranium Of every female I
met. It perched Ike an ill-omened thing
on the gray hairs of the grandmamma,
and smothered the golden curls
of the infant in the cradle. It was
worn at all times and on all occasions
l watched the emerging of the throng
from d Centre street church, and go
per cent of the women worshippers
sported the "broncho." and I wondered
what thoughts ran through the brain
of the man of God as he eXhorted the
sisters to lay aside all vanity and labor
solely for the love of Christ! Little
wonder was it that as the wearers of
the bronchos filed UP the street that
an innocent looking jay from the
Teton country approached group of
drummers and inquired whether the
female minstrel was about to begin, or
was it just over?
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I learned afterwards that Pocatello
women are quick to catch on. A
local milliner paid q visit to Salt Lake
and came back with one of the mon
strosities.
Then came a chorus from hundreds
| of feminine threats, where did you
get that hat?"-not in derision. but
with the deepest concern.
Oh. they We're not easy to get, but
they we're the latest sensation in
London, Paris, and Salt Lake.
That settled it.
Orders came in by the dozens. and
the detestable headgear arrived on ev-
cry train.
Every woman thought herself lucky
( to be the poSsessor of one.
{ And the following Sunday they all
blossomed forthl
! And then! 1t was an easter event
in dull old October.
There was one of the bronchos, only
seen on the streets of Preston there
were two originally, but when Miss
( Ora McGaoulihan found that her
I hated rival Sallie McPhee, was the
J owner OF one, she put hers away, and
+ circulated the rumor that no dacint
{ self-resDectin= girl would wear such
( a thing-not even though she lived in
! salt Lake.
This ended the reign of the bronchc
/ in Preston.
In Smithield, there is but one, enc
! that is worn by the prettiest girl ii
I the village. She becomes the hat very
well. but looks much lovelier. when
hat nut aside, she answers, no, sir
no mail this morning"
And then We come to Logan. Here
good taste is shown by the absence Of
the hat of many colors-that is, com
paratiye absence. and the weather /:
/ such that the broacho must soon bt
( stabbed for the winter
Brigham City has purchased few
but ore milliner who bought a dozer
still has half of them left. and when
asked the esteemed favor of adding he
name to the subscription list, she said
Zach. nein! See. see! 1 buy these
they do not sell; they are dead Thu
girls here not like girls in other towns
hard to make EN- understand a wha-
is right-zat what is a STYLE Mos
girls. Ike boy hats; Brigham City
no."
And she hustled away, leaving M
to find out-but there was nothing loos
save the bunch of bronchos
l await, with some curiosity, the ad
vent ard the spread of the next mon
gtrosity DIR. FE,LIL