The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-03-25
MILLINERY OPENING
Boston Stores Display Signal for
Opening Of spr ng Trade.


Opening of spr ng Trade.
"a crowd OF ladies filed the street:
They surged and swayed and tripped;
They tramDed on one another's feet,
And many a groan was ripped.
And many an agonized oh, deari'
Went upward from that throng.
And the people rushed from far and near
To find out what was wrong.
No revelation from on high
Was being chanted there;
They iabbed and murmured: My, oh
my.
And unused each others hair
The trouble was that BIancoue. who led
The trade in everything
Had displayed a fresh supply
OF bonnets for the Spring"
The Boston Stores spring millinery
openings have become an established fea-
ture of Wichita's commerce, and the
women throughout the city have learned
to look forward to this event, after
which they can choose their Easter hats
with that comDlacent self-confidence and
assertiveness that comes from the con-
Store is Wichita's accepted authority on
millinery styles, consequently their an
nual spring openings are anxiously look
ed forward TO by Wichita's lovers OF
feminine headgear. Last week the Bos-
ton Store folks announced in the Eagle
that the big doings would come of yes
terday, and the consequent jam and
crush of enthusiastic women resulted.
The millinery department was brilliantly
lighted by one hundred incandescents and
handsomely decorated in natural flowers
and plants.
The new hats were artistically grouped
about the room on high stands and in the
glass wall-cases on the sides. Twenty
saleswomen entertained the guests with
late millinery gossip and assisted them In
trying on the new hats. Several large
mirrors throughout the room added to
the brilliant effect. Sweet music from
some concealed nook above foated down
and mingled with the chatter and laugh
ter below, and in all, 1t seemed to
breath the very life of Easter. The Bos-
ton Store has line of millinery custom
ers whose inclinations are to buy the
richest and most up-to-date productions
of Europe. And for this trade the store
always exhibits at its openings an ample
line OF hats brought direct from Paris.
| While looking over these foreign crea-
tons the reporter noticed several name
stamps of the designers of men and
women famous in the millinery world.
Among them were Nine. earlier, Maison.
Nouvelle, Guillard Soeurs, Nine. Deffon-
tame. Marescot Soeurs. Felix and Leu
theric
AS usual there's a world of flowers used
this spring; flowers OF the forest and
flowers Of the garden, mingled with
leaves and grasses and ferns and sprigs
of berry-bearing bushes that grow in
waste places and wild woods.
The Boston Store is showing a large
line Of ToQues and Turbans, which lead
all other styles in popularity this season.
Two prominent hats in the display this
spring the are ANNA Hobbs" and the
Mushroom These two are as differ
ent as different can be. the anna
Hobbs" being made solely Of shirred silk
and velvet and the Mushroom solely
of flowers and foliage. One of the dis
tinct features of this seasons millinery
is flowers and leaves skeIetonized, thus
giving the hat on which these are used
as trimmings, that transparent effect so
suggestive Of fairies costumes.
Besides the imported hats in the Bos-
ton Stores display were hundreds of
their own beautiful creations, apparently
as pretty as the imported styles, but
much lower in price.
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elusive styles in the Paris hats, the store
folks did not make any attempt at SELL
ing. as the crowd continued so large all
day that it was impossible for the sales
people to give any one customer exclu-
sive attention for any length of time
The selling will begin in earnest tomor-
row, and from now until faster means
long hours Of labor and short hours of
sleep for the nimble-fingered trimmers
who prepare Easter millinery.