The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-03-26
THE EASTER HAT.
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Now York, March 22,-Room for the
Easter hat!
Light as a cloud or puff Of thistle
down, bright as a dover, breathing the
promise Of spring
There are hats and there are hats, but
there is only one Easter hat-thc airlest,
Earliest thing my lady wears in all the
year. For weeks it lies perdu in band
boxes. screened in tissue paper; blossoms
trembling, ribbons perked with eagerness,
waiting the glad Gay.
TO other hats seasons triumphs; to
the Easter hat nothing in life compares
with the Joyous excitement of debut.
Let them say who will that Easter has
lost its glories; that the gay. traditional
parade has become too much of a holiday
for the many to suit the taste of fastid-
ious few. Here is truth and lie-many
truths are false on more than one side.
Some hundreds Of exclusive hats may lie
till Easter Monday pent in darkness;
thousands as beautiful will burst their
bonds and come futteriEg out a host OF
morning.
Aud for what are we looking? What
new scent have the flowers what new
markings on their wings the butterflies
OF this season.
There is no fashion In Easter hats. Let
The milliners talk and the fashion writer's
describe non existent thing. So long as
woman is unlike woman; so long as the
charm of brown eyes is not as the charm
Of blue so long as the wire can be bent
and straw plated there will be as many
beauties in hats us there are varying
graces in the heads that wear them.
If you ask me for rule where rule
there is none, he Easter hat Is small or
1t Is of medium size. Accept this with
faith, then look for yourself and you Will
SEQ many large ones.
Tho Easter hat is high crowned yet
Nat hats are plenty. The picture hat Is
no longer fashion, yet with women who
can wear them and milliners who can
make them-and Of these classes there
are not too many-they Will never be out
q favor.
Straws so lace-like and Of a gloss so
sotiny were never seen, Yet there are
more tulle hats than for many a sum
mar and the flower hat--a Nice hat they
call II on the RiYiera--will be a power
In the months TO come. Chip hats are
more than plenty; but It is also true that
loose, plant straws-many of them In
wide platts mounted on tulle and wire
frame take precedence.
The toque-how many years is 1t since
there was n summer without toques?--
lnclines TO turn up on the left side.
know little miliiner who calls such hats
rt,rousse with an air as II she meant to
apologize fer them as for pug nose yet
N ~ are lN'y prosty hats for the young,
piquant faces TO which they are suited.
just as the pug is the prettiest OF all
noses II you are fond OF the girl whose
face it adorns.
There are round toques that curve right
down over the hair az the back: holding.
almost In cornucopia fashion, mass of
buds and blossoms Bergere-shepherdes
hats my little millinsy calls these. lust
os dressmaker calls any skirt that
turns mp at an angle in front a washer
woman skirt; though It is only on the
stage that shepherdesses and washerwo-
men lay claim to these designs.
There are garden hats-for wear in
days when the garden shall hold other