The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-08-28
Mrs Alton B. Parker and Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt Have Served to Crystalline
Dainty Hat Fashions for the
Co,,o;rO Cocoon
Coming Season.

which is stretched over a wire frame
This lace must be a heavy lace Of
small pattern. The edge Of the hat IS
bound in velvet and the crown has A
velvet band around it. a little bunch
OF tips stands smartly at one side.
They are taking these lace brims and
embroidering them. One very hand
some lace brim had flowers worked up-
on IL in black silk Another had How
ers painted on It. You can get UP very
pretty results with these lace brims and
lace crowns If you arc wiling TO worl,
a little upon them.
II was the Countess de Castellane who
changed the style in ostrich feathers.
Feathers that trailed last season are
now punched and grouped upon the hat.
The single long trailing plume. while
II will never go completely out Of style.
Is much less fashionable than it used
to be. The tendency now is more to-
ward the higher trimmings Fca theirs
are trained over the crowns Of hats or
are punched in a group. which is set
well toward the front
How to Get Pretty Effects.
And there is another style Of feather
trimming which viii be very popular
THIS fall and wtnter-the Tyre feather.
An ostrich plume is turned inside out.
so to speak. and is tightly curled. It is
then trained around the brim OF the hat.
or underneath the brim, or is used as a
ieather trimming to go around the
crown All ones old feathers can be
treated in this way.
While ostrich Dlumes VIII lead the
trimming styles, there are other trim
minEs which viii be very fashionable.
and one OF these is the stim bow trim
ming. Ribbon Is punched in stiI loops
and Is used 70 decorate the hat. And
velvet is laid on in standing folds and
one fold overlaps the other. so that the
cOlors contrast
The very prettiest effects are TO be oh
tained for fall by taking contrasting
folds Of velvet and setting them upright
around hat. At one side there IS placed
a hansome buckle. This IS the tailor
made hat On A dressier hat there can
be an ostrich plume or a big handsome
chou Of ribbon or a big winter rose.
Roses are to be conspicuously used
this winter in the trimmings of hats.
The single rose Will stand at the front
Of the hat with a large rose at each
side Of it. Three roses make a pretty
Milliners have no hesitancy in saying
that hats will be very bright this win
ter, not 70 say gay. There is a tendency
10 take up the hat OF many colors, the
hat that combines white with orange
and which introduces touches of black
A beautiful hat built for a London
woman is made Of chiffon velvet in oys-
ter gray. II is very wide in the brim
and high in the crown, and the velvet is
put on In shirred rows very much as one
would shirr a yoke. The hat trimming
consists entirely Of a great long veil Of
orange colored chiffon, which is draped
around the crown Of the hat and caught
at the back with a big Jet pin. The un-
der side of the hat is faced with coffee
colored lace worked in white silk flow
ers. This hat. which is valued at so,
is 70 be worn for nice dress occasions
ali winter.
Hats With Low-Necked Gowns.
There are to be opera hats this winter.
and they Will be worn by women In
decollete who have never worn hats TO
the opera. Lovely great picture hats. as
a cart wheel. will be worn in the opera
boxes by women whose necIxs are
strung with diamond chains
A very unique opera hat was worn bv
a Partisan last winter. It consisted OF
a tiara OF diamonds set into the middle
Of a great Dig Alsatian bow OF turquoise
blue velvet. This was set on top of tho
head. IT lacked only the strings to be
bonnet.
Strings Will be considerably worn this
winter, though IL is a fact that they do