The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-08-14
LATEST IN MILLINERY.
The Peacock and Parrot shades OIL
Blue and Green Are Much
In Evidence.

This promises TO be a record season,
writes the Millinery Trade Reviews
Paris correspondent. There has been
an uninterrupted succession of novel
ties. and those who would keepin the
very front rank of fashion have had to
spend money lavishly. At the present
writing there is a perfect furore for
hats in combinations of dark blue and
bright green. 1t is only few weeks
ago that one OF the wholesale houses
placed on the market straw hats made
of coarse braids Of bright, dark-blue
straw, plated with vivid metallic
green, and wings for trimming were
also blue and green. Tartan hats,
they were called. In a few days the
I city was flooded with them.
OF course the first houses were not
going to follow suit. The tucked ar
rangement might be all very well for
morning and country wear, and, more
over, the combination of this pa rticu-
lar blue and green was voted too crude
by milliners Of taste. Still, the idea it.
self was good one, and susceptible to
being improved upon. While maintain
| ing the parrot shade Of green, by deep
ening the blue, a much more tasteful
| effect was obtained. In It's later devel-
| opments il therefore becomes a pea
| cock harmony, although the name OF
Tartan" has so far been retained, as
well as the original style Of trimming.
| This has resulted in an enormous de-
rnand for wings, to which have been
added birds, aigrette and paradise in
| one Of the two cOlors, rather than in
combinations OF the two. Some mil
liners build up the same harmony with
flowers, but certainly pIumage is
much more suitable. The following
will show what is being done in this
line by the best houses.
To begin with, here is one of Nine.
! RebUux's models. H. is "A small tr1-
corne in the Louis XIV. style, that Is
to say, bent sharply in a vertical line
at the three corners and with the brim
curved up between. The hat itself
| is in fine sewn straw Of a very deep
navy tone, and the upturned brim
Is faced with deep green paillasso on
braids. Against the side, their tips
pointing downwards, are placed two
! peacockrblue wings, and about the
crown is draped piece Of navy-blue
tulle.
A large plateau hat lifted from the
brow in front and fluted at the back.
made OF fancy chip braids Of me-
talic green (but not so bright as
would be glazed straw has for trim
ming four elongated deep blue wings,
two Of which are fastened fiat on the
outside Of the brin on the right, and
the two others fiat on the underside Of
the brim.
A similar shaped hat, built up OF
| broad, dark blue chip braids, bOrdered
with a single row Of bright green pail
lasson, rests In front on cachepeigne
Of green velvet, and il trimmed out
side quite on the edge OF the brim,
with two bright green paradise tails
secured by sapphire cabouchons.
Bright green velvet ribbon isworked
in and out Of the edge Of another hat
in dark blue straw, draped round the
crown with dark blue tulle. Fine blue
wings, with "A few green feathers in
troduced into the points, form acac he
pedgne behind.
The only really appropriate flower
for the blue and green combination
Is the bluet or blue cornhower. 1t
Is used TO trim hats OF green reed
or green ysanthemum straw, and
also mixed with grasses to deck blue
straw. White flowers. such as elder.
lily Of the valley or small roses mixed
with good deal Of green, wreath
some green straw hats into the trim
ming Of which n single blue couteau,
roSette Of blue velvet ribbon, or a
pair Of blue cabouchonS Is introduced,
! These, however, can hardly come
under the head OF blue and green com
binationS.
The special harmony Of the iden IL
the harmonizing OF bright medium
green with "A deep blue. When tur-
quoisc or other light blue Is ubstitut-
ed for the latter, it loses Its eccen-
tricity. That combinations of light
blue and moderately light green will
be fashionable, Is evident.