The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-19

large hats are as extreme in their own
way as the small ones. for they are
often turned up sharply on one side
and set upon the head at an angle that
makes demands upon the couture quite
as great as those made by the tiny
hat eccentrically perched. Still, even
at its worst, the large hat is hardly as
deplorab1e a caricature in connection
with the average face as is the Jaunty
| little millinery freak of the earlier sea-
son, and, in rational form, it is gener-
ally becoming and picturesque.
For the garden party and other out
| of door fetes the large hat is pre-
eminently the thing, though the little
factorily to the tailored costume. the
morning frock. the indoor occasion;
and it was at the out of door reunions
during the Paris season that the big
hat came into its own
The black picture hat was not so
much in evidence as of old, although it
was worn and in many instances set
off toilette as no other hat could.
Large hats all in one color or in
shades of one color and often being
the only vivid note in a toilette of
white or neutral tint were numerous,
and the plume trimmed hats were
chiefly in this genre, though the flower
laden hats often mingled many colors.
The fall openings will reveal the
secrets of the styles with which the
makers are now pussy But meanwhile
much may be gathered as to early fall
fashions from the gowns now being
sported at Newport and other fashion
able resorts on this side of the water,
and from those which were worn and
will be worn at European summer
race tracks and watering places.
Gleanings, droppings by the way, re
liable harbingerS, may be picked up
here and there as to still more remote
fashions. Materials, it is said, are to
Oh little DURING the Smooth
glossy cloths such as broadcloth, drap
d ete and the like, are to prevail for
the fall.
Velvet is to be not only a popular
foundation fabric, but much-used
accessory. This summer in the newest
toilets one finds it employed for collar
and cuffs on not only cloths and silks,
but even on linens and cottons. It also
pipes bands, finishes edges and appears
in a host of trimmings. Velvet-covered
buttons en- suite with collar and cuffs
are frequent devices for cloth, silk and
linen coats. Black velvet is good
deal affected for such purposes, al
though the bright colors, where they
are needed, are also employed.
White linen coat suits, severely tail
ored with colored accessories in the
way of velvet collar cuffs hat, parasol
and stockings, all of a tone, are the
rage for morning get-ups at the sea-
side.
The vogue of the long coat is still
thriving. It seems now as If the vogue
would end only with draped skirts,
with which long coats are out of the
question. Long linen and light cOlored
cloth coats are some of them made
loose and gathered into the waist or
else are of strict redingote ilk. At
their latest they are piped and hem
med with a two toned checked silk
navy blue and white, red and white or
green and white. For anything at all
drassy IN the line of coats, the Empire
1xrIo g ALWAYS a nOnlIl9 r
shape with the girl or the woman of
girlish figure.
Suit coats for wolfe and other thin
| costumes are very much abbreviated
both as to body part and sleeves.
The tunic skirt is becoming, if it has
not already become, a very general
fashion. 1t is the natural outcome of
the redingote which these days is verg-
ionabIe skirt is either plated or of cir
cular cut and it is seldom left plain. 1t
is day of elaborate garnishment
which, however, certain prophets de-
clare to be nearing an abatement.
Two of our honeymooners have had
a happening. says Clara Belle in the
Cincinnati Enquirer. They had been
June. and they were off on a picnic all
by their twootsie Self-ums. She had
made sandwiches all herself, and boiled
eggs and bottled some coffee. She
tucked in some chocolate ana they haQ
wandered around the island all the
morning and never thought about eat
ing Just think, on a lovely green is
land in Penobscot Bay all by yourselves
and Just married. Can any such day
be long eonugh?
She gathered her little cap full of ber-
ries, and they sat together in the shad-
ow of a great rock, his arm about her,
the lunch basket forgotten. Then when
he had kissed all her little fingers as
oh S1d h berries her.
I'd the lunch. Such funi she wouldn't
get up and '.set the table, but she
pushed her pretty head up under his
chin and said:
Don't let's regularly eat; you just
open one of the eggs, let me have a bite
of il and you can have all the rest, so
don't let's bother to fix things"
So he took an egg from the basket