The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-04-03

back and its tendency is to droop front
and back.
The 1880 hat Is bent down in the
back and Is spiked TO the couture. The
sides upturn slightly and are album
dainty trimmed with small flowers.
while the front droops decidedly and is
trimmed with lace and maline.
One of the most becoming Of these
round hats Is built upon framework
OF wire. This is draped with thin
scarf, upon which there are many lace
medallions and insets. The entire
hat Is covered with this and a little
border Of lace hangs down around the
edge Of the brim. The top Of the hat
Is trimmed with wreath Of small red
roses and at one side there are white
wings, which stand forth sharply.
Flowers and wings form the trim
ming for another very pretty hat. The
flowers, which are small red roses, are
arranged in a wreath, which sur
rounds the straw crown Around this
wreath there lies another wreath,
which Is made of little white roses to
set of the red ones. At the nds Of tina
hat there stand half q dozen wings.
In red and white.
Feathers and wings are seen In
every color and the dyed wing IN quite
as numerous as the wing OF natural
color. Shaded wings. shaded feathers
and shaded breasts como In endless
color and variety and some q them
are exceedingly pretty.
Straw hats are numerous this ysas,
perhaps more so than IN prsv3sas
years, for the straws come In greater
variety and In a greater number Of
shades and In finer weaves. The Hgtt
weight Oriental straws are lovely, ana
the very delicate imported effects are
as charming as one could desire.
There are straws that look like satin
and there are straws as thin as web.
Pretty Hats OF the Year.
There come certain fancy varieties
of straw with mock pearls In the
weave and there come straws with
tiny iridescent- stones that are very
brilliant to the eye and that In them
selves, make a fancy trimming.
Hats made of these straws CONS
high, but there Is this virtue about
them, that they require little trim
ming.
The flower hats are blooming this
spring and the geranium hats and the
violet hats are in evidence. The gera-
MUM hats are in new shapes and
very pretty. one of the loveliest being
a boat shaped hat with sides made Of
scarlet velvet geraniums, while the
top is a mass Of green velvet leaves.
At one side there is a chou of ger
aniuun colored satin ribbon. while In
the midst of the geranium ribbon
there nestle two sharply pointed
wings.
Another geranium nat is in toque
shane. set well back from the face.
with wide upward rolling brim- made
Of aeraniurns. The top is all of green
leaves with a few large geranium
flowers trailing at the sides.
Feathers are arranged upon many
of the spring hats in new ways In
stead of being laid upon the hat in
conventional fashion, they are pulled
off at one side and brought over the
brinn of the hat and fastened on the
under side
Long ostrich feathers. all exquisitely
shaded. are arranged upon hats In this
manner and are brought over the brifn
and tackled underneath. These feathers,
which are long, are often In very DELI
cate tones, thus making a very fine and
handsome trimming for the hat.
Very few hats are to be worn fat
upon the head All hats are slightly
tilted and are worn either back from
the face or quite at one side, though
the day of the tilted hat upon its ban
deau Is pretty well past Still the hats
have a tilted look and are made to pro-
duce this effect by judicious use %
trimming and bJ the bending Of thu
hrin in undulating fashion