The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-25

such headgear. The brims are wired
into odd curves and the facngs. which
are shirred over cords In many compll-
Gated ways, are put upon the felt hats
quite two inches from the edge. T is
leaves a supple and becoming border
all around, which softness is accen-
tuated by the fall of the new plume.
The new plume is thing of beauty
and a joy forever. Called snake f. ath-
ere--wherefore nobody knows, for tn
ostrich bird is responsible for their
foundation-these fluffy, fringy o ma
nnents fall like the foliage of the will
low tree. However short the feather,
the soft swaying fringe gives it a look
of opulence, while the long ones so
treated seem the birthright of royalty
alone.
Superb puppies and faint violets were
displayed by such a plume put straight
across the top of fiat purple velvet
hat. The fluffy end fell far below the
rim at the back. and around the crown
were disposed some rich medallions in
Russian lace.
The lace of all the new millinery is
of the heaviest description, and the
most effective webs have a rude hand
made look. Such sorts in mellow
ecrus are put over dead white chiffon
and combined with moleskin or gum
metal gray velvet for both brim hats
ana LuFDdIlS. t1eduBedI VI the last Qe-
scription is to be much worn. vast
numbers of turbans are seen, many
in a white braid which initiates Per-
sian lamb, and many in wired che
mile.
The lines of the correct turban Dor
row definitely from the sixties, when
such head coverings We're shaped in
imitation Of gunboats. Gunboats they
were then called. and since boat
shaped turbans" is the new title, the
theft can be readily placed. When
posted upon the head the pointed prov
of the boat turban juts far over the
forehead; the rounded stern leaves
much of the head exposed, and the
whole effect of the structure is one
of audacious smartness.
The boat-shaped sailor is another
modiste's fancy. though in this case
the craft is a double-ender and placed
sidewise on the head. Measured this
way its dimensions are startling, but
sized up the other the boat sailor is
only becomingly big, and its rounded
triangle permits of much coquettish
treatment.
A boat turban of white felt was
wreathed with tiny white birds, whose
fiat bodies We're piastered at the upper
edge of the crown as if glued there.
These feathered dwarfs are dubbed
Chinese birds, and certainly their par
rot-like bills and viVidly yellow feet
recall tne StOleSQuefleS OF the orient.
With them plain tafGeta, in puffed
brim edges and bias crown scarfs, is
much used; and upon wired lace or
ASncy braid hats pinked taffeta is enor-
mously employed. This is fashioned
In wide and narrow ruches, doubled,
trrbled and quadrupled, the fuller
ruches widening the trying high
crowns and smaller ones raising fiat
brlms to more desirable effects.
The tendency of all headgear is to-
ward elevation of line. Crowns are
lifting higher and higher hrims roll
up from the face and simple dish
shapes are raised from the head with
wider bands than were ever used be-
fore. But with it all the popular taste
is more toward smooth, round effects
than toward high-crowned, undulated
ones. So a perfectly fiat shape, say, of
shirred velvet, will take to a sloping
railing around the edge of the brim
of travelled silk or braided gimp, which
gives ii enough lift to pass muster.
Another fat, straight brim will be
covered with great loose rolls of tulle,
or 1t may be banked by rugged chry-
santhemums whose gaudy hues are
softened by the wisps Of yelling men
toned.
The new flower in the garden of