Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-06-18
FOR UP TO- DATE WOMEN
Sailor Hats and Some Others That Are
Popular.
The Proper Styles for Cycling, Yacht
ing, Travelling and Gar
den Parties.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK June l6 $50

| Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, June Is. 1898.
The sailor hat is finally firmly establish
| ed. But do not he deluded by this state
m mt into the depressing belief that the I'M
becoming little FORK pie hats of rough and
| ready straw are the most approved shape.
| 1t is true they are not far from it, but in
| that quarter of an inch in both crown and
| brim lies the difference between artistic
| beauty and ungainly ugliness.
| 1t is also true that rough and ready straw,
| as it is called, is the newest and latest.
| The sailor hats of this summer, however,
are only trife lower in the crown and
| little narrower in the brim than those
| of last summer. Women who were far
| sighted enough to purchase their sailor
| from good shop last year need not change
| or buy a new one this season. They need
only have the old hat cleaned and have Il
| black band put If II now displays a
white one. In other essentials it will an
swer very well. For the becoming white
| bands are in the minority. The regua-
! ton sailor has black band, and is itself
| composed of white straw, generally the
rough and ready above described, which
has a double brim, giving a rather heavier
| look than was considered becoming or
necessary in the past The smooth white
sailors are not by any means eclipsed by
| the rougher straw, although not quite as
much in evidence. Many women will al
ways consider a fine white straw the only
weave suitable for their wear, and it is an
undoubted fact that the smooth sailor is
| the most becoming be it made up in white,
black or colors.
Rough and ready straws of mixed colors,
| two blues, two greens, or two browns to-
gether, are much used But if one buys one
of these sailors she will still find that she
needs white one A summer without
white sailor is summer Ill spent No
other hat takes its place with white gowns
| or for out-of-door games and recreations.
For Cycling and Yachting.
! This year an attempt has been made to
| introduce other shapes for cyclists aud
| yachtswomen, and the golfers have their
sunbonnets. but the hat of all hats for
! cyclists, yachtswomen, golfers and other
gamesters is the white sailor
A novelty is the white pique sailor, which
! may be found with band and brim edged
| With almost any color which one wishes to
match the ribbons of some particular
gown 1t is not probable that sailor hats
| of white pique will do more than fill a de-
mand for something new for this season
alone Their brims cannot re made stiff
| enough without sacrificing the lightness,
/ which is their chief merit. And a sailor
| hat without brim which will stoutly
| sist the attempt of any and all winds 10
| turn it from its perfectly straight course
| is a sailor which no one will want very
| long.
Very dainty and becoming are the white
| felt sailors with white ribbon and at
most silk pompon in the way of trim
ming-generally not even that. These felt
creations are supposed to be worn with
| white yachting costumes, but they are far
too becoming and useful to be kept for
that alone. They will be seen with white
serge and white cloth gowns during the
whole summer, ard will harmonic with
every white woolen gown much better than
their sister hats in straw.
Appropriate Trimmings.
Sailor hats, quite covered with flowers,
are seen very often, but they differ from
those much worn a few seasons ago in
that fewer flowers used to do the same
amount of work: that is. if sailor has
rose garden on it the roses are artstically
separated, so that they will fan carelessIy,
much they would be arranged in a vase
instead of being massed together in great
punches or crowds. The roman scarfs
which were worn in the early spring on the
Alpine hats have survived the fall of the
hats they adorned and have now come for
ward on the sailors. Although one sees
many sailors wound with Roman scarf
from which fringe droops over the hair, II
is not considered the best of taste The
scarf should be tidily disposed of about
the hat with no ends awry.
For a change from the inevitable sailor
one sees hats of panama with rolling brim
and depressed crowns, something like the
wore to school a year or SO ago. These
panamas not half becoming as the
sailor. One can also find them in felt trim
med with soft colored plaid ribbon and
quilts of the same shade. In felt they are
called yachting hats, but are especially
suitable and comfortable for tourists. For
one may well acknowledge that al
though the sailor hat is the crown of the
summer girl or her older sister, ii is not
comfortable for journey0of any sort. 1t
will not adapt itself to circumstances.
For Garden Wear.
For garden wear one may find the shape
of the real Mexican sombrero, though for
tunately for our poor heads it is not the
simon pure articles. 1t weighs about ten
pounds less, that is, almost nothing and is ,
simply trimmed with scarf of some soft
white material 1t can be worn turned I'D
or pulled down over the eyes, so as to COM
pletely keep the sun from ones complexion
and would be most excellent for a fishing
or bathing hat.
For weddings, garden parties and all
other elaborate functions of leafy June one
should have a leghorn. The leghorn Is
again in its glory, if, indeed, there ever
was time when 1t suffered more than a |
partial eclipse. The leghorn approved of |
fashion nowadays is not adorned with |
nodding red roses as of yore. 1t has gone |
back to the day of white plumes, and |
caught up in an artistic fashion and decked |
with at least two long, soft, white plumes |
1t is the companion of the organdie and |
other diaphanous gowns of summers gath /
ering. MABEL BOYD.