The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-10-23

Never Before Has Headgear Been So I'M
portant as 1t Is This Season, for Hats
VIII Be Worn at All Swell
Dinners.

the head, not TO perch on top OF It.
While IL IS a jaunty. smart hat, II is
not hat 70 be worn rashly. 1t should
fit the head. and be worn firmly an
chored upon the head at just the right
angle.
Nearly all hats are slightly tilted.
though the tilt is so very slight that
one scarcely notices il at all Very
often a bandeau IS set under one side
OF the hat, and upon the Paris hats this
band or bandeau is very high. Many Of
the hats show a bandeau OF fully two
/ inches. And into this bandeau the hat
/ pins are stuck
IT don't think, concluded this miulner,
! chat hats were ever so important be-
fore They are to be worn at every
swell dinner this season"
lists Are Gorgeous in Hue.
The hat industry is a growing one.
I The newest hat pins are Mexican cats
Z eyes, which are a deep green. shading
/ 10 the eats eye colors. They are almost
as large as a silver quarter, and are
T very lustrous and handsome. A dealer
F was showing them IN blue and green
+ In the lOVeliest tints imaginable. mouat-
+ ed ia a gold rim, and stuck in the ban
deau OF a handsome white felt hat
A very chic arrangement was observed
+ upon a Paris hat-for Paris milIiners
stiu aim 10 lead the world iu millinery.
7 This was in the shape of a baudeau OF
Roman silk in the most brilliant tones
/ With this hat there was a pointed col
/ lar 2f Roman silk, TO be thrown around
/ the shoulders. Collar and bandeau
matched exactly. And yet the bandeau
E was 40 more than the strip set under
the side Of the hat to lift it slightly
I from the head. yet it was made as deco
Z rative IS possible.
Numerous are the artihces employed
20 make the hats OF this season becom-
Ing. Ana very wei are they succeed
ing. One OF the lOveliest hats OF the
year is the lace hat. II is round and
fat and IL Is trimmed around the brim
with row after rOW OF lace. The lace is
put on in side plaits, ana II is fully @
finger wide. il hangs over the hat
rrim in three OF four rows. making the
very most becoming setting for the face
that could be imagined.
one Of The most charming hats IS
faced with white lace OF a pretty coarse.
antique variety. With this there goes a
white lace collar Of antique lace This
is deep. and has stoles IN front, each
stole fastened with handsome buttcns.
Hats are trimmed with buttons quite a
little. There are big button moIds COW
cred with plaid silk and embroidered.
I and these are used in various ways 10
/ trim the fan and winter hats. one hat
/ had crush Of silk around the crown
ana THIS was caught down here and
/ theFe with big. round silk-Covered but
/ tons
a mar that was very noticeable had a
big rolling brim. and this brim was
caught up around the crown at intervals
: or two inches with a button as big as a
+ quarter This button was covered with
white silk and embroidered with holly.
/ IL made very handsome ornament.
i and 10 may De remarked, "a very CHEAP
. one, FOR any girl who Is clever enough
/ 10 DO her own embrOidering.
I The embroidered button decorates not
only the nat but the entire costume.
and while embroidering. the girl OF in
dustrious tendencies might as well en-
I broider a slincient number 10 20 around
The New Embroidered Buttons.
Ia the button supply the girl OF FASH
/ ion win need six for the front OF her
+ Louis XIV coat. She viii need several
+ for the front OF her girdle. She will
+ need four large buttons for the back Of
. her coat and she will require half a
/ dozen the size Of q dime for her stock.
/ These with a supply for the cuffs and
The nat should about afford "a sumcient
. number fcs the trimming OF a modish
I fail costume.
/ il can be stated as fact that no cos
: tune 81 complete this fan without & lit
/ tie Oriental trimming III may be only q
{ band OF Bulgarian embroidery around
( the skirt only a few sJrappiugs OF the
same upon the waist: or il may be that
there IS "a whole vest and girdie OF Per
sian trimming. no matter how much or
how little. there must be an Orienta!
look 20 the gown.