Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-01-07
THE FUR HAT.
Difficult Millinery Proposition Is Ex.
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Everybody knows how difficult fur is
as a millinery proposition. AS the
salesgirl at the fur counter said to a
customer: 1--WE sell these ermine bands
for trimming hats. But, really,
madame, you will have to take the hat
TO milliner's to be trimmed. You will
not be able to handle the fur yourself.
Fur is so queer!"
And queer it is in the fingers of an
amateur. But, taken in hand by one
who is practiced in handling it, great
results can be obtained.
Mrs. Thomas c. Plat, an October
bride, has beautiful fur set in her
trousseau, consisting of an exquisite
ermine stole with hat to match. The
stole is very wide and is thrown
around the neck. The ends hang down
the front and are so wide as almost to
cover the entire front breadth of the
gown. They gradually widen to the
knees where they are finished with a
very deep ruching of chiffon.
This lovely ermine stole is trimmed
with three narrow bands of sable.
while a handsome sable head fastens
the stole at the throat. The hat is a
wide brimmed one bordered with err
mine
AS the new millinery runs you can
use any kind of fur upon your hat and
in almost any SORT of way.
A becoming hat with spreading brim
and low crown is trimmed as to the
crown with a piece of sealskin. The
crown is entirely covered with it, and
the piece required is circular bit of
skin about twice or three times the
size Of the palm of your hand. It is
placed smoothly over the crown and
there is no other scrap of fur upon the
hat
A great many hats are trimmed with
bands of fur which are put around the
crown in ribbon fashion. A strip of
sable three inches wide and five-eighths
of yard long will make handsome
band for a tall-crowned hat. Monkey
skin and mole skin are used in the
same way and the finer grades of Per-
sian lamb. The band of fur constitutes
all the trimming required for the hat
except, perhaps, a bunch of bright, red
roses which are fastened at the side,
nesting right in the depths of the fur.
Fur tails are used upon hats and a
little border of tails makes a pretty
edging for. a hat brim. They are tackled
to the rim of the hat and they make
becoming border for the face.
Fur is becoming in all its varieties,
and it sets off the face beautifully. for
1T gives it that touch of winter
piquancy and softness which is So es-
sential to prettiness.
And delightfully."- eft" a fur hat al
ways looks, for it is so unquestionably
seascnable and so undoubtedly appro.
pirate that there is never any question
regarding it. Because it is appropriate.
as well as for many ether reasons. the
woman who can get enough fur to trim
her hat is bringing it out and using it
as winter trimming.
One OF the prettiest of the new hats
Was trimmed with a band of long.
black, imitation sable which was laid
fiat upon the brim of the hat with the
border just projecting over the edge.
The crown of the hat, in this case, was
of silk, and the whole made a rather
elaborate piece of winter millinery.
And a great many of the hats are
elaborate and difficult for the home
milliner to handle, though extremely
pretty and satisfactory when complet-
ed
Particularly was a brown hat in
November trousseau a thing of beauty
for its tall crown was trimmed with a
wide band of shaded red and pink rib.
bon which was knotted at the back.
leaving streamers that hung to the
waist. This was one of the few
streamer hats of the season. At the
front Of the hat was a bunch of brown
feathers, while the brim of the hat was
bound with a wide hand of hroun Glib