The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-02
Dexterity Is One of
Her Chief Char
acteristics.
NOVELTIES IN FLOWERS.
New Colors and Fancy
Straws Go to Make Up
An Easter Hat.

Undoubtedly the dexterity Of the mill
liner is most exercised in the compost
ton of hats and tocues made out Of
piece straw or of gossamer. Given
yard of yedda lace and a wire frame il
n4eessitates a great deal of cleverness
to build up a shape. but when it is ac-
complished the milliner has the salts
faction of having produced something
that bears the stamp of originality.
never to be obtained by ready-made
shapes that are prepared by the thou
SAID. The same may be said of hats
that are made of gauze, previously run
in innumorabla small tucks or tiny
bouillonnes, the material being after
ward mounted on the wire shape so that
the tucks, or little ruchings formed by
the bouilIonnes, shall stand upward
about the narrow brim, and toward the
| apex Of a pointed crown, or in wave
lets over low beret.
! Some novelties in flowers have ap-
! peared. A large sized pansy with six or
eight upper petals in prettily gauffred
| silk and two lower petals of Velve-,
Variously marked, has met with i'm
mense success. 1t is one Of the latest
| creations of Mile Staub, who, besides
| exercising her profession Of premiere
| to a wholesale house, directs two mu-
nicipal classes, where the art of making
| artificial flowers is taught in all its
! branches.
This flower is reproduced in no less
| than seventy different tints and COM
| binations. mostly violets. mauves, or
child pinks, crimsons, dahlia tints, ana
| yellows. The same house has also
| brought out a large double poppy, very
fun blown, with silk petals, that millin
ers are ordering freely.
Both these are used in couples, the
two set back TO back. but as many as
four pansies With as many buds. may
| be grouped together. Other additions
TO the list Of fashionable flowers are Of
a more artificial character, such. for in
stance, as roses or large clemats
blooms, the petals of which are made
of white or black tulle; TO which firm
ness is given by an edging Of very fine
wire concealed beneath q bordering NJ
| black or steel spangles, whereas others
| again are close limitations of nature
and include various vetches and other
small wild flowers. besides some of the
spray orchids, which replace advan-
tageously paradise and other aigrettes
At the same time. the production Of
roses is carried on on large scale.
Some milliners are evincing a great
taste for small pompon roses. several
-oted together on one stalk. while
/ others prefer larger blooms arranged
with very pale leaves Of velvet, some
being so pale as to be almost white
For the rest, the flowers most in favor
lre primroses, anemones, wild hya-
cintas lilac, forget me-nots, and blue
! COrnflOwers.
Straw is shown in an infinite variety
| Of combinations, and much Of it may
compare for lightness, delicaCy of col
| oring, and minutia of detail, with the
most complicated flower petal shapes,
of tulle or gauze. Brims have some
! times two braids on the edge, or the
| brim is made of three separate layers.
and when these are bent upward and
| waved. the little ruchings with which
] they are bordered form a trimming in
themselves. and only need some flowers.
exhibiting the same variety Of shades
as the braids
One Of the latest innovations consists
| in the use Of flower petals for covering
/ shapes of different kinds. but principal
| " small fancy hats. boIeros and toques.
| When large petals are used-such as
those of the pansy. rose. or poppy-the
effect is much that of a fower-cov-
| cred hat but with this difference. that
remarkable novelty may be given TO
the border by fastening petals of a
! large size to the under side of the brim
and allowing them to curl upward over
its edge.
Carried out in pansv petals. prettily
marked this IS charming. Shapes COW
cred with small petals. as those of the
violet, hyacinJh. or aster may easily
be mistaken at a short distance for
fancy straws or even for shapes GOV
cred with plumage if the petals be ar
ranged regularly all bending over one
way. Thus a bolerO Of grayish- blue
hyaCinth petals. with a low crown and
turban brim. looks wonderfully like one
I'm plumage It is trimmed with a
twisted t0rSaIe of purple tullc filing
in the interval between the crown and
brim. finished in a twisted knot on one
side. Some Of the shapes covered with
petals assume the most fantastic forms
combining the decoration with the
shape as for instance. one in which
pair OF outstretched wings are rormed
out of the same materials as the hat:
/ for the rest of bolero shape, in wired
net entirely covered with violet petals.
These wings rise synmetricallv on
either side of the brim's edge Behind
them a large bunch Of mounted violets, |
intermiXed with small sprays Of foliage, |
may be placed. of a couple Of pale pink |
/ roses and some rose leaves with buds |
} Very pretty hats are covered with pale +
mink Of yellow primrose petals and