Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-09-11
LATEST IN MILLINERY.
The Peacock and Parrot Shades Of
Blue and Green Are Much
I'm 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 keep in the
very front rank of fashion have had to
spend money lavishly. At the present
writing there is perfect furere for
hats in combinations of dark blue and
bright green. 1t is only a 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 a vivid metallic
green, and wings for trimming were
also blue and green. Tartan hats,
they were called. In a few days the
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 particu-
lar blue and green was voted too crude
by milliners of tiste. Still, the idea it.
self was a good one, and susceptible to
being improved upon. While maintain
ing the parrot shade Of green, by deep
ening the blue. much more tasteful
effect was obtained. In its later devel-
opments it therefore becomes a pea
cock harmony, although the name Of
Tartan" has so far been retained. as
we'll as the original style of trimming
This has resulted in an enormous de-
mand 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 plumage 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.
RebouX's models 1t is a small tri-
corne in the Louis XIV. style, that is
to say, bent sharply in 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 upturhed brim
is faced with deep green paillasson
braids. Against the side, their tips
pointing downwards, are placed two
peacock-blue wings, and about the
crown is draped a piece of nayy-blue
tulle.
A large plateau hat lifted from the
brow in front and futed at the back.
made Of fancy chip braids of a me-
tallic 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 brim on the right, and
the two others fat 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 a cachepeigne
of green velvet, and is trimmed out
side quite on the edge of the brim,
with two bright green paradise tails
secured by sapphire cabouchons.
Bright green velvet ribbon is worked
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
PRODUCED into the points, form cache
peigne behind.
The only really appropriate flower
for the blue and green combination
is the bluet or blue cornfower. 1t
is used to trim hats of green reed
or green chrysanthemum straw, and
also mixed with grasses to deck blue
straw. White flowers, such as elder,
lily of the valley or small roses mixed
with a good deal of green. wreath
some green straw hats into the trim
ming of which a single blue couteau,
rosette of blue velvet ribbon. or
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 idea is
the harmonizing of a bright medium
green with a deep blue. When tur-
quoise or other light blue is substitute
ed for the latter, it loses its eccen-
tricity. That combinations of light
blue and moderately light green will
be fashionable is evident