Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-08

The long buckle in gold, enameled In
colors or starred With Jewels, Is the iIn-f
portant part of the trimming of some
of the black velvet hats. This buckles
is exaggerated in length and glints amid
puffs of velvet or chiffon or feathers,
all the material being balck. Many hats
show smaller buckles as well as the
requisite long buckle. The small buckles
are in various shapes, some in flower
sprays, others in arabesque and butter
fly designs. The pearl buckles are es-
pecially beautiful, showing a charming
commingly of purest white with pink,
blue, golden and purple tints. The
smoked pearl varieties are quite Orien-
tai in the dusky-color hues.
AS TO FEATHERS.
Ostrich feathers are in great emand.
They are especially effective on the pic
ture hats. The cavalier hat illustrated
today in silver gray felt has two long
ostrich plumes at the sides thrust
through the felt and held in place by a
buckle. The long sweeping ostrich
feathers are made often to serve as the
sole trimming on the dressier hats. They
are never more distingue than when
they trail from under a richly ieweled
UNI dIlu constitute Lie eIllie liiHl-
ming of the velvet hats. One of the
novelties of the season is the feather
toque, for which every variety of
plumage is called into play, the rich
greens and dark metallic colorings hay
ing the preference. They are round in
shape, and caught UP at the side with
quilts and mounts, besides natural
%colors, the feathers being often dyed.
Some of the toques of dyed plumage in
such brilliant shades as rose pink, violet
and bright blue are rather fearsome
looking objects, and calculated to render
their Wearers rather conspicuous. AS
for the toques composed entirely OF pea
cocks feathers the up-to-date woman
defiies superstition and bravely perenes
one of these smart bits of millinery
creation on her fluffy p%ompadour. The
feather toques are SO complete that very
little additional trimming is required.
In some the brims are arranged With
long curved plumes meeting at the b. *.
and joined in the front by a bird, a tuft
of plumage or a chou of soft feathers.
Jet toques a tiny borders of mink
or grebe, and a combination of mere
feathers and grebe is sometimes seen.
For general service nothing is me-
acceptable thar the turban of vel.
black, if you choose. to match your
cloth tailor-made suit preferred, and
with no trimming beyond it's own folds
and a breast or wing or two, in tones
the same as the velvet. Velvet toaues
trimmed with coque feathers or ostrich
feather pompons and worn off the face
are a serviceable style of headwear, and.
as a rule, becoming. 1t is a fad just
now ito have them in the same shade
as the costume with which they are
worn and with only the feathers in
black. This little touch of black against
the colored velvet Is decidedly attractive
and often makes a hat much smarter
than when 1t is all one color.
The soft felts for outing wear are
trimmed with breasts as we'll as wings
and quills, and the big dropping POM
pons of coque feathers are particularly
stylish on hats of simple design. They
are sometimes all of the green toaue
feathers, or have the white ones show
ing slightly beneath. Being used in
the pompon form they are appropriate
for the simple felts as the long feathers
of the same Kind are on more dressy
hats.