Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-21
HATS AND BONNETS
Lovely Creations to Shade
Young Faces.
ARE BROAD AND FLAT
EMBROIDERED PIQUE AND LINEN
USED ALSO.
The Parsifal Poke and the 1880" Are
Among the Latest
Novelties.

foundations by this seasons offerings IN
shade hats and bonnets, then American
children are blind to the Establishments OF
their mothers patron saint, Dame FASHION,
and given over utterly to mud pies and sand
forts.
If Nam selle Dainty be bound for NOUN
tain, shore or suburb, her array of sunhdts
and bonnets will be simply appalling. Like
her mamma, she will have everything en-
suite, from her straight, untrimmed morn
ing frock of linen or cheviot to her beruf-
fed and trimmed batiste or organdie.
Straw hats are very large and simply
trimmed with broad sailors and dropping
fats leading the various modes. Lingerie
effects run to smaller shapes, poke bonnets
in particular. Flowers made from satin
ribbon are combined with lingerie ma
terials, and these hats are so much trim
med and beruffled that they lose every sug-
gestion of their original mission, which was
to be washable.
Fond mothers have only to make cir
cult of the fashionable shops to realize that
If children are up-to-date, they will wear
hats and frocks which harmonic perfectly,
not SO much in coloring as in fabric and
general finish.
In a store which caters exclusively to
juvenile needs, the little dresses and hats
are so grouped, and the effect of the dis
elegant combinations.
For a girl of ten there is natty tweed
dress, showing an ecru ground shot lightly
with golden brown, olive green and a red
which suggests orange. The skirt is
shaped hounce, with five rows of golden
brown stitching as finish. The opening
or vent on the left side CT the middle gore
is also outlined with five rows of stitching.
Effective and Simple.
The Russian blouse, opening on the side
to meet the vent in the skirt, has stitched
pleat running down from the right shoulder.
Bishop sleeves are gathered into a simply
stitched cuff, and low standing collar to
match finishes the simple but effective dress
for travelling or wear at the shore.
To go with this there is hat of Milan
straw in deep ecru. bound around the edge
with golden brown velvet, and trimmed
across the top with wide. narrow bow of
the same velvet ribbon, fastened with
long buckle in wash gold.
The round, broad sailors, with rolling
brims in closely woven straws, are the ia
vorite tailored effects for wee women and
velvet is by all odds the most popular
trimming. Ornate designs In buckles, and
smart, stiff quilts are also used, but flowers
are considered exceedingly bad form on
hats to be worn with the little tailored
costumes.
In truth, flowers, except for the most ex-
pensive varieties and the ribbon garnitures
ban of Dame Fashion, so far as little peo-
pie are concerned. They are being used
so much in the very cheap grades and in
such atrocious colorings that the mother,
who desires her child to look as IL she be-
longs to the truly elect, steers away from
blossoms of all sorts.
To Wear to the Fair. ~
A pretty travelling costume, turned out
recently for twelve-year-old girl, bound
for the st. Louis exposition. showed a
grayish-white granite cloth, with heavy
boucle In navy blue. 1t was made with a
sailor waist and deep. round collar, heav-
lily trimmed with navy blue braid. Wash
able shields of grayish-white linen en-
broiGered in navy blue floss. showing a
natural emblem, were supplied In sufficient
numbers to warrant daily change. The
hat for this was q round, rolling brim
sailor edged with blue velvet. and trimmed
with choux Of narrow blue velvet rib
bon
For wear with geranium-red yelling
gown made with accordion pleats, there Is
fat hat of what might be termed string
white or natural-hax colored straw in q
fat open-mesh basket weave. Geranium
red velvet is woven In and out of the
pompon bows OF the ribbon and chiffon are
snuggled close to the low clown.
For wear with sailor dresses Of linen,
duck and cheviot, there are fiat, dropping
of a contrasting shade. or with fancy but
tightly woven straw braid instead of rib
bon. These have no trimming except a
broad band of ribbon, velvet or corded
silk around the crown, tackled severely in
the back and then hanging below the
shoulders.
Very small boys and girls will be much
seen this summer in modified Russian
cross between the Buster Brown suit and
the long, straight Russian blouse.
In Dark Linen.
A fetching model on these lines is Of
heavy, dark-toned linen, with the entire
front OF the little blouse laid in fiat, inch
wide pleats. and the round. deep collar
edged with heavy linen galloon, showing
peacock feathers, with the eye in Delft
blue
To wear with this there is stunning
lingerie hat of the linen shirred on
buckram frame and edged with a fat.
pleated ruching of the linen. A pudding
bag crown Is pleated into the brim and
finished with band of Delft blue satin
ribbon. tied in a stiff tailored bow.
Pongee hats and bonnets are shown in
large numbers, and are used with both
pongee coats and linen frocks. A three
quarter pongee coat, piped with scarlet
has for its little running mate a stiff
sailor developed from pongee and buck
ram, stitched to match the finish on the
coat and topped with bow of scarlet
satin ribbon. Satin ribbon, rather stiff in
finish, is used for all the pongee hats
Pleasing little pokes are evolved from
shirred pongee in natural tone, made up
with pure white satin bows and strings.
These pokes shade the face perfectly and
are becoming to small brunettes.
She Likes Sun Bonnets.
A mother who has been heralded as one
of the shining lights of true family life
among the New York 400" has recently
received from an exclusive shop large
consignment of sun bonnets, pure and
simple. To be sure, they are very dainty
in exquisite combination of linen, pique
embroidery by hand and embroidered ruff
fies, but sun bonnets they remain, and no
other name will describe them.
There are bonnets of blue chambray
stitched in white and edged with stir
little ruchings of fine Hamburg There
are pongee sun bonnets, appliqued with
lace in self-tones and tied with pink or
blue streamers. And there Is no end of
the pure white pique bonnets, embroid-
cred by hand in delicate white flowers
f1eur-de-lis and other conventional de-
signs.
The average child despises a sun bon
net, not because 1t is old-fashioned. but