Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-21
FALL AND WINTER HATS.
Artistic Color Schemes lRnd Pretty
 Materials Are in Evidence.

Women are proverbiaIly extravagant In the matter of millinery, and the hats of the coming season will give them no opportunity to retrieve their reputation, They win not only en- courage but demand extravaganza, be- cause of the costliness of the materi- als of which they are made, says the < New York. Tribune.
 Of these reigning favorite, both as covering and trimming, is a long mapped silk plush very beautiful in quality and coloring. Sumptuous plaid effects are among the new plushes, and on one hat plush of peacock blue and green was twisted in folds around the brim of turban, the crown of which was covered with the breast of real peacock. A color which promises to outrank all the brown tints in this material is purple, including all the lovely and delicate shades of wistaria blossoms, the rich purple of the heliotrope and the warm, lovely shades of purple tinted red, such as are seen in the fuchsia.
 Brown and white are said to be the leading colors in smart millinery for wear when society comes back to town, and elegant creations in com binations of plush and silk appear in several shades of brown, from pale mode color to castor, sometimes with quills or feathers effectively disposed in the trimming.
 Birds, will Autter into fashion with o foron.. fI eY4 f,x, rY.xy olI hof0ra if Blackbirds enough to furnish a good sized pie. gather on stunning white vel vet hats, while birds of diverse feath- CTS flock together upon enchanting confections of silk and satin.
 Brown birds, wings and quills seem to predominate upon street hats, but the woman with soft heart and. ten der conscience can turn from bird- trimmed hats without quail, for the nest superb of the new hats are, shad- owed by great ostrich pa1mes of un- usual length and beauty. An exquisite plume-trimmed hat of panne velvet. in a fashionable tint of pale green. permeated with hint of ]. lavender blue, had big bunch of loops with a steel buolzles in the back and two big plumes nodding forward and sfad- ing from dark blue to very pale tips. This wonderful. merging, of soft col ors was completed, by shfrred facing |, of liberty silk, shading from pale blue at the gray velvet bandeau to a pur- plish blue at the edge of the wide front brim, and large rosette of gray ribbon was set under. the left brim toward the, front with folds extending to the back.
 Crowns figure extensively in the new hats and vary from round low ones to small rather high. crowns with brims wide toward the front. A large white hat of this shape was of velvet with twists of white plush covering the border and edge of the brim, and twining around the. crown Wide pon1- padosr ribbon, with predominating figure of pink, was drawn from the crown and laid in folds across and under the bTim, where the ends were fastened to bandeau: From a. knot of this ribbon at the top of the crown, on the. left side toward the front, a long white plume swept along the brim and curled under it, this, too, being 
 crossed by the lowered ribbon, which was fastened in big knots under the left side with ends in the back. The combination of pompadour rib bon, panne satin and velvet with white will be a marked feature of the new 1 fashions in millinery for smart occa- sions, and white hats for early fall wear, both for street and dress occa- sions, win lead all others in point of popularity Y They will be trimmed with all the shades of brown and law ,ender, softly draped with 'veils of the same tint Indeed, numbers of sim pie white hats will have no.other trim ming than folas and .draped ends of .largetveils. These are made especially for decorative purposes and will be isupplemented by face, veil of am other sort