The San Francisco call., 1905-03-26

In the elegant little English Styles as
well as in the medium sizes and is even
TO be found in the picture hats.
The only drawback to the ready-tO-
wear hat is that il is made by the
quantity for all to wear. 1t is a hat
of which one is never sure of secur-
ing an exclusive shape. On the con-
trary one gets a hat which can be seen
upon every corner. And to many per-
sons this is not a pleasant thought
One wants something more exclusively
ones own style.
To obyiate the very disagreeable
commonness of the ready-to- wear hat
milliner makes this suggestion:
Take large brimmed hat of rough
straw which lies upon the ready-to-
wear counter. You will find it faced
with straw of another kind. while
around the top there is a neat ar
rangement of maline and straw, with
handsome straw bow, perhaps. or a
straw buckle or perhaps a feather Or
nament.
Take a hat of this description and
finish 1t yourself. On the under side
of the brim, at the right, place a big
satin bow. Let it be large and well
made and considerably fiattened out.
Now, II you please, set bandeau un-
derneath the hat. And upon this
bandeau arrange a little wreath of
tiny pink roses or small white ones
or even of black flowers, if you find
them more becoming. As for the top
of the hat ii needs nothing except a
very tiny wreath of flowers around
the brim, put around in such a way
that the vine falls off the back of the
hat
Little improvements can be easily
made in the ready-to-wear hats and
they transform them from the every
infx int m "a Of
millinery that rival the exclusive
French models.
The French Easter hats, by the way
partake little Of the nature of the
bizarre. + In order to wear them one
must have three things-a long purse,
a large wardrobe and the courage of
ones taste.
They are large and their price is in
exact proportion to their size. One
shows q perfectly immense picture hat
with great flaring front wide
enough to shelter three faces instead
of one face. which looks quite dimin-
utive under so big a hat. 1t is faced
is shirred, while in the shirring are
set rows and rows of small roses.
The top of the hat is a flower gar
den. running down to a point at the
back, where it is met by a great
crushed pink ribbon bow. which forms
streamers, which come forward and
are looped under the left ear.
The French Picture Hat.
And there are French picture hats
which are called Louis XIV hats. and
which, for women who want the i'm
mense picture hat. are ideal. There
is one in particular which is lovely.
Just picture to yourself a Gainsbor-
ough hat. But 1t is different from the
Gainsborough, for the side is turned
up higher and much more sharply.
And instead of a feather there are
roses. This hat. which is trimmed
with a great deal of velvet ribbon,
can only be worn by a woman of some
style. It takes style to wear a hat
that is turned up sharply at one side
and caught with great rose and its
leaves, and with nothing else to soften
its outlines.
And still other picture hats have
appeared and of the galaxy-for there
is great array-there is nothing quite
as decorative as the garden hat. 1T is
large and fiat and beautifully trimmed
and Maude herself could not have
..come into the garden" in a hat more
suggestive of summer.
The garden picture hat appeals to a
large number of women, for 1T requires
nothing more than pretty face. And
in these days all women are pretty.
1t Is built on the order of the old
time garden hats. There is q low
crown, around which a wreath of
leaves may be twined. or a wreath OF
roses. At one side there is a hand
some ribbon and velvet chou and in
the back there Is an immense bunch
of loops with two ends, which come
down and are brought front, or can
hang right down the back in streamer
fashion.
Pretty variations of the garden hats
are seen. There is one which is round
and fiat with a low crown. 1t is
trimmed with a thatch of leaves,
which line it. Around the very edge