Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-10
READY-TO-WEAR HATS
Felt Alpines and Fedoras for
Autumn Days.
OLD AND NEW SHAPES
VELVET TURBANs ARE TRIMMED
WITH CoQUE BREASTS.
copper Ornaments and Novelty Braids
Are Much Used in Trim
mings.

| written for The Evening Star
| The wise woman who can buy but on.
dressy hat does not invest in such {
| treasure at this season of the year. If i,
| much safer to wait a few weeks and ascer
| tam which of the styles are to becom,
| cheap and common. There are aIWay,
| certain features of the millinery mode:
winch are easily initiated in the cheapes
VI materials. and which for this reason are
| crossed off the list by the woman who like.
| to consider herself well dressed
Inc hat of the hour for the economically
| inclined woman is a ready-to- hat
| which in dark shades is just the thing fol
wear with the last of her summer tailored
gowns and the first of her fall ready-to-
wear suits. In lighter coors these hats
look very well with even more dressy
frocks.
opinion Is divided as to the price which
one is justified in paying for tie first
ready-to-wear hat. Some women buy the
very best quality of tailored la and make
them last for general wear during the en-
tire winter. These women have IN addition
what they call their rainy day hat built on
alpine or fedora lines, and trimmed w tn a
band of leather or plain silk. laid in folds.
rms hat matches IN general tone the rainy
day suit or coat, and The better tailored hat
Is kept for wear with a tailored street suit
and similar eXcuTs onS on rainy days.
Young girls soon tire of tie first felt hat.
however They are apt to select pure
white felt, pale gray or a champagne
color, and these soil quickly. Tie light hat
is unquestionabiy the ideal one for first
days, but nothing is ugler later in the sea-
son than white hat which shows marks
of dust and rain. 1t is a bad investment
for the girl who knows she must make her
fall hat play part In the midwinter ward
robe.
Now is the Time
On the other hand, if she can afford two
tailored hats it will pay her to buy both of
them now, and relgiously lay away the
darker one for winter days. The time for
the selection of ready-to-wear hats Is alb
solutely complete, and the stock of the fac
tories and wholesale millinery stores is now
spread upon retail counters.
If girl buys her white tuTban now and
leaves her darker hat for selection until
November. she will find poor assortment
to choose from. To be sure, prices will be
cut by that time on all ready-to-wear hats,
but when she looks them over her mind
will bark back to the more graceful shapes,
the fresher colors the more careful hand
work, which she saw in the September Of
feringS.
For the young woman two shapes sold in
ready-to-wear hats are the sailor and the
modified tailored directoire hat. For the
older woman-and. in truth, many young
women are adopting 1.-THE turban has no
rival. 1t comes in so many shapes and in
such a variety of materials and trimmings
that the purse and the taste of every wo-
man may be suited.
Sailors Are Smaller.
The sailors are smaller than in summer.
A favorite model is the breton, slightly
wider from side to side than from back
to front, yet not quite pronounced as it
was during the summer. The brim rolls
decidedly, and is almost invariably edged
on the under side with velvet in a con-
trasting shade or with novelty braid. An
effective model on the breton line shows a
white felt with a rather large fiat crown,
encircled simply with felt and white Surah
silk The brm is edged with a novelty
braid in which golden brown velvet is the
pIedominating note. lnteraced with white
silk cord and note of gold this is an Ideal
hat for wear with a golden brown dress
in either plain goods or material shot with
white.
The directoire hat shows a high crown,
brim fiat on the right side, faring on the
left and bent down in the back to meet the
soft coil or bun in which the up-to-date
girl knots her hair at the nape of the neck.
The true directoire hat is trimmed very
high in the front with plumes or flowers.
but the tailored directoire does away with
all high trimming. A stylish model on this
line is a shaggy brown felt fiecked with
very light tan. The brim is faced with q
fancy SILK TO match the HSHt SHdue III tIl6
hat and this is brought over the edge of
the brim so that 1t forms a sort of putting
all round.
How It is Trimmed.
Around the crown is velvet Of the darker
shade; interlaced bands Of velvet run down
from the crown On the right side of tho
band of the brim at the back, with long
golden arrow twisted through. This gives
a pretty finish to the back of the hat where
it meets the hair. Under the flaring brim
on the left side is fastened a flat braid in
a dark shade of brown. There is absolutely
nothing on this hat which the fall winds
can tear or rumple. 1t is sufficiently simple
for wear with walking suit, while the
light-colored silk facing makes it possible
as the accompaniment of a more dressy
costume Later in the season the light
silk facing may be removed and the darker
shade of brown substituted. with perhaps a
tiny line of fur the top of the brim.
The beauty of the turban is the way 1t
fits to the hair. At first glance the we'll
fitting turban and the carefully groomed