Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-29
1t Can Be Evolved Successfully
With Fresh Flowers.
VERY USEFUL UP-TO-DAFE HINTS
Soft Silks and the Blossoms of the
Season.
NEW GOWNS AND HEADGEAR
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
NEW NORK Irlv 81 1909

| Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, July %. 1899.
The whiting sun and the Sitting dust have
| by this time of the year played havoc with
| the hats which looked so fresh when spring
first led US to lay aside our felts; and the
tempting reductions of hats erstwhile unat-
| tainable except at prices which man
| would pay for a good suit of blue summer
serge is the last straw in sweeping away
| our intention to make what we have do.
| Clearly at least enc new hat is in order.
Outing hats are seen on every hand and
in every shape. and almost every one may
be known by the melancholy hen feather
| with which it attempts to be decorated.
Whether the material be pique. duck rough
| straw or soft tan or gray felt, over all
waves one lone feather plucked from the
wing of the domestic hen. Clearly a per-
version of use, for these hats are worn on
trips away from home.
The Varying Grades.
But the hats which are reduced in price
the hats which We long for and the hats
which we know would go so well with the
last null, crgandie or soft muslin gown are
not decorated with a feather. Usually they
have 10 trimming at all but their own soft
folds They are made Of black or white
null, with billowy brims whose alternate
ClnatiEg hollow implies in the way of mys-
| terry. give a charm to the face which can
not be sainsaid The foundation of these
hats is wire crown and brinl and they
are generally about two or three inches
wider in the crown than a sailor The hat
or wire frame is first covered with null
then anticipated brim of two or three
rows or null is put on. The crown is of
draDed null and on one side there is a
large soft bow of the null. One girl who was
an enthusiast for Princeton went to their
races wearing one of these null hats of
biack, Of course. Around that she had
large bow and fold of yellow orange rib
bon, and the amount of attention she re-
ceiVed from the students of that particular
seat of learning can scarcely be estimated
But whether they be black or white, or
trimmed with null of the same color. or
whether they have a ribbon put on 10
match each gown with which they are
worn, these null hats are reduced TO very
few dollars indeed, less than three in most
cases, and they are very becoming and
very necessary al this torrid season Of The
year.
BiIIOwy-Brimmed Straws.
There are billowy brimmed straw hats.
too. They are extremely reasonable and
ali the trimming they need is a wide satin
ribbon twisted around them and made into
big bow either right in front or on the
left side. They can now be had for about
a dollar apiece and the trimming is an easy
matter to manage at home. The French
chip hat in pure white is very much in
order. These white chips are often a little
wider than sailors and trimmed in a con-
ventfonal manner, that is, with loops and
folds of white and pink white and blue
liberty silk. and when trimmed with white
and pink there are usually pink crush roses
put under the brim. Then there are large
white hats, very much like Leghorns which
can be twisted into any shape that is par
ticularly becoming to the face of the wear
er. And on these large hats are to be
seen any and every trimming which is con-
sidered suitable for the season. The Leg
horn hats. however have the popular eye
at present One sees them everywhere
Some of them, l think, have been in the
family for a generation. Not that one can
tell this by their appearance. There is no
hat as economical as a good Leghorn.
Clean 1t and the one worn years and years
ago is quite like the one worn today.
Soft Silks and PIumes.
Curling plumes and large soft bows of
pink white liberty silk adorn some of the
Leghorn hats; others run to black velvet
and pink roses, always fetching combi-
nation, especially when there are narrow
velvet strings to tie under the chin. But
the fad being flowers of the season, Dame
Fashion has even seized upon the innocent |
grain ripening in the field and colored pur-
pie, blue any color which the wearer |
happens to fancy, the fruits of the field TO |
appear our hats. OF course the ex-
tremists of this new school do not wear
dyed grain. No, they appear in grain the |
color of that growing about them, appar-
emily never fearing that a crow or other |
grain eating bird will make a mistake and |
swoop down upon them. They are drawer |
more ignorant than friend of mine
who absolutely refused to have a red hat
this summer, although she knew il would
be intensely becoming to her dark eyes and
olive skin. Protestations were of no avail
She was going to spend the summer at a
farm house and nothing. she averred,
would induce her to go to a place fire.
quented by cows, having among her pos
sessions a red hat or a red sunshade.
Real Calendar Hats.
1t is said that this fad for trimming
proper to the month of the year in which
it is worn has gone to such lengths In
Paris that, from first sending their hats