Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-30
cause it has been marked down to some
absurdly low figure.


cause it has been marked down to some
absurdly low figure.
Light colors Lead .r
On the other hand, the demand for
new hats is constantly heard on all
sides as there are a great many women
who want to put their millinery in order
a third or fourth time for some pro-
jected visit or trip in midsummer and
who require the best of everything.
These women are the ones who keep
all fashions up to date and who de-
mand something new and attractive
every month in the year. The best mil
liners realize this and can always fur
nisb come charming confection.
| Just for the moment the light and
airy effects are the ones most in de-
mand, and these hats are not so exor-
btant in price as they would have been
earlier in the summer, for by mid
summer begins the time when autumn
fashions are much more to be thought
of. The white and light colored Grin
hats, the light straws in fancy effects.
and the lingerie hats are consequently
the ones that are most in demand at
the present moment. .4..i
In the lingerie effects there is an
immense variety, for not only are en-
broidery and lace used, but there are
no end of smart hats of this kind made
up in chiffon and maline, which are
exquisitely dainty, not especially per-
ishable, and looking as though they
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Of year, which undoubtedly they are.
The self-same shapes and very much
the same style of trimming are used
for grown people and children, and
aggressively simple hats are quite the
fad in this style--aggressively simple
when viewed, from a. ehild's point, Of
view, because the children's hats of
today are more or less elaborate and
very much trimmed.
A touch of pale color is by far the
best with hats of this description. Dark
colors do not look well, as the con-
trast is too strong to be effective, and
consequently pale pinks, yellow. ETC.,
are used instead of dark shades or
deep purples. such as were seen on
hats intended for earlier in the season
and as will be seen later again in the
autumn.
Pastel Shades In Millinery
What are known as pastel shades are
extremely smart for hats at this time
of year. The very pale grays and
tans to be worn with muslin or chiffon
gowns of the same coloring are very
dainty and gossamerlike in appearance.
These hats are generally made of the
erin and trimmed with ostrich plumes
and tips of the same shade. Often
there is no relief of color whatever,
and yet occasionally touch Of color Is
introduced in some flowers that are
put in at the back under the brim or
on top of the hat at the side with
the feathers.
When it is possible to wear a gown
and hat all of one shade of this very
light tint it is rather smarter not to
have the contrast in color, but It is
not always becoming, and then a better
effect is obtained by some white in the
trimming of the dress around the throat
or in little touch of color in the hat.
A combination that is always FASH
ionable and always unusual is yellow
with gray--a pale yellow and a pale
shade of gray. This brings out color
ing effectively and makes it at once
unusual. The color can be obtained in
hat of this description either by the
feathers used or by the flowers. A
yellow rose or two nestled in with pale
gray tips on hat that is trimmed
with tulle is charming in coloring and
very becoming.
1t would seem as though this at
tention to detail in coloring and ma
terial were carried almost to too great
point. and yet SO much now depends
upon 1t that 1t has to be thought over
very carefully. 1t is claimed that one
reason why the fashions of the moment
seem so much more finished than they
ever have before ID because the question
of what is becoming is much more
thought of than was formerly the case.