Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-02-22

It's size, for the hat of Easter viii be
very large. Yet, when You come Ia
like this hat You will find it surpris-
ingly light, for it will weigh ounces
where you supposed it would weigh
pounds. And the inner or under
part, which you supposed to be a
matter of heavy straw or solid mate
rial. consists of the lightcst wire
framework
Making the Easter Hat.
The Easter hat will be distinctive
~ a made hat. II will be composed
of chiffon and maine ruchings and
rutfleS put on delicately over a wire
foundation. And trimming the bor-
der of its brim there will be numer
Gus small llowers, making as trim an
edge as was over seen in thc proud
est English garden thai over nankcd
the Thames.
Precision rather than simplicity
will be the rule for he Easter hat
Flowers will be placed primly around
the brim to make an edging, or they
will be laid very Hat on the top to
form a solid crown.
The hats that are supplied with
flower tops will be numerous indeed
and one cannot help inq'irnS II
there is any end to them.
The fat-topped hats will be i'll the
asccndeDcy, or the hats that are near
Iy fiat in the top. This means that
the Chinese hat. which is very neaS
ly fiat, and the Aat=toppcd Japan
csc hats will both be in The scoop
topped hats, which are all front and
the spectacle ct hat that is as big
around as Il platter, with thc back
the head and The front projecting far
over the face and nose. offered for
your inspection and admiration.
These scoop topped hats arc very
fiat on top and many of them are
pieces OF very light felt looking like
cloth. with only the Faster ilower5
to proclaim the fact that they are
spring hats.
1t would he hard to go back to the
period in which these hats were worn,
for they even eXaggerate the fiat hats
Of a hundred Years ago. and when ore
sees lat perfectly fiat on top, near
ly six inches wide in the front and
less than quarter of an inch wide
in the back, one begins to wonder
what things are coming to.
And ir this respect 10 the fiat hats
there are vagarie5 that may turn
into things Of beauty and may not.
One of these is the llat top, all made
of wire and covered with chiffon,
It is five inches wide just where il
projects out over The forehead, Th"
top is untrimmed except for a Ver%
Aat flower garden on top, and a
the back there is bow with two vel
We, ends.
Use Very Small Flowers.
The Under part Of Che brin, just
whore you look up and see it, is faced
with TIE smallest flowers that ever
grow and lhcy are placed very close
together so as 10 make a thatch OF
tiny blossoms.
The tendency to mass flowers IS
very pronounced. One is not sur
priscd to sec the solid crowns of &c.
raniumS bordcred with rows OF green
leaves; nor is one amazed at the Vio-
let-toppcd hats with their borders o.
Tom Thumb roses. for this is one
OF the newest fads. And, again, one
sees the hat top a mass OF small HOW
ers that struggle for recognition III
the carnation family.
Violet is pre- eminently the color
of spring Yet if you will look
around you will see its former field
lar.tely ueurped by aeranium coors.
With tie geranllm trimmed haas
thcro is an abundance Of coral jew
elry 10 be worn. And the different
reds blend well whether seen upon
a brunei on blonde.
fia of he season are inclined t.
be of a nondescript shape. That they
are largo there is little doubt but
their shapes az. not clearly dedne1.
The fancy for ostrieh feathers which
is now AZ such height finds e.
preston in feathers as long as yo}u
arm, aud costing as much as your
pure vii! hold. i is no una5aal
thing TO see q feather eighteen inches