Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-30

of each cuff.
One of the smartest examples of French
millinery, just arrived from Paris. was a
fine black chip having a five-inch brim,
and crown about an inch high. The brm
undulated the merest trifle in the front. rose
rather high at the left, and stood straight
out at the right, to rise at both sides and
form three deep indentations at the back,
the knife blade of the indentations show
ing at the outside of the brim. Black vel
vet ribbon two and one-haf inches wide,
doubled and stiffened with fine crinoline
rested, edges down, on the brim an inch
from the crown. The ends of this band
met at the right side near the back and a
bow of four loops was formed, with fine
jet slides two and half inches long, fas-
tened through the center; the loops at the
back Were an inch shorter than the loops at
the front; there were no ends; the bow
was eight inches long. Where the brim
was turned up in the back fat black os-
trich tips We're caught-three in aIl-and
in addition to these white tip curled from
the back around toward the left side, show
ing from the front, above the left ear.
Another smart and ucy-looking hat
seen at the same place at the luncheon hour
was of pale yellow straw, with a low,
mound-shaped crown, the brim widest at
the back and sloping in narrower at sides
aL1 front This brim was turned up all
the way round, not abruptly. but sloping
gently like the sides of a saucer, the edges
of the brim rising above the crown and
quite coneealing it from the back and
sides. A bias piece of panne velvet, a soft,
rather dark, green in hue, and four inches
wide, was arranged around the crown in a
rather stiff, wide fold-it being held in shape
by a narrow bit of some sort of stiffening,
and this ribbon was tied at the center of
the left side in a loose bow having two
pointed ends. A full wide cachepeigne of
green leaves and white and yellow yioets
massed in under the back brim. and
filled in the space between the chapeau and
the low dressed coiffure.
A somewhat similar hat only smaller
and of pink straw, having the indented
crown-that is, the edge of the crown rising
in a three-quarter-inch hollow ridge above
the body of the crown-had an indentaton
in the brim at the right front, where a
small chou of black panne velvet caught in
1t concealed the base of two black wings
rising like Mercury wings only fat-the
only trimming on the hat save the wide
black velvet bow at the back under the
brim.
Another and quite different hat. and this
from Vienna, was a rather fiat, oval affair
with decided brm that narrowed to form
a modified point at the front, but was al
most square across the back. 1t was a
fancy straw in wood brown, with a crown
following the shape of the brim and being
of the same height of ecru lace over gold !
wire; the lace was real and was embroid-
cred in dull gold thread. The brim was
faced up half its depth with wood brown |
maline shirred over golden gauze. directly
in the front of the hat, resting on the point |
was cloth-of-gold rose with shaded brown
velvet leaves. Falling off the back, starting
from the crown, and curving down each
side and at the back to the nape of the neck |
were clusters of cloth-of-gold grapes with
mixed green and brown leaves.
This unusually beautiful hat topped a
gown of ecru lace and wood-brown chiffon
broadclCth. topped by a cloth coat to match |
redingote, entirely shape. 1t had
in the back two plaits running from the
shoulders to the girdle; these plaits were
sharp points near the neck, but deepened
into inch and-a-quarter plaits just above
the girdle, where they We're cut off across
the edges turned in the plaits standing out
at the back the grdle which was of
brown panne velvet; the girdle ends in the
back were slipped through a large bronze
buckle. In the front the coat did not close
y bias band of panne velvet three inches
wide was set a quarter of an inch from the
outer edges of the side and fronts; a quar-
ter of inch back of this was a strip of
inch-wde brown silk braid in diamond de-
signs The under edges of the coat were
faced with cloth of gold covered with wood
brown chiffon. The girdle coming from the
back narrowed down to a width of only a
little over inch on the front, being shir-
red into a narrow bronze buckle matching
the large one in the back. The panne velvet
and braid went down the skirt fronts of the
coat and around the bottom. the velvet
around the bottom being five inches broad
The coat skirts were laid in inch-wide side
plaits an inch apart at the top, and these
were stitched down some fourteen inches
from the waist line; the fronts of the top,