Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1905-09-30
Fuss and Feathers, Plumes
and Ribbons Galore.
EVERYBODY DELIGHTED
Milliners Keep Open House
to Show Latest Designs.

All the world loves a lover,
(probably), but every woman loves
a hat, while man admires the face
under it. Thursday was ladies
day" in Hopkinsville. The dry
goods clerks might as well have had
a day off," It was Opening day
with all the millinery stores in
the city and each had its throng of
feminity from early morning until
the closing hour at night. "Fuss
and feathers" plumes and ribbons,
smiles and EXPLANATIONS of delight
everywhere.
The feminine sex had already spent,
spent many hours consulting maya
zines trying to evolve from the hun
dreds of suggestions something that
would look we'll over each individual
face. But all original ideas vanish
ished when the first millinery store
was visited Thursday, and when ''ye
ladye fair" had made the rounds she
was so bewildered by the many ex-
quisite displays of Fashions ever
variable mood that, for the life of
her, she couldn't determine what
kind of a hat father or husband
will have to pay for.
She will do some tall studying
in the next few days. She has an,
ideal-everybody has. She wants to
see what her ideal has selected, and
whatever that may be goes" Tor
something very much like it.
Women's hats, to men, are about
all alike-and as to style, about as
Interchangeable as the laws OF the
Modes and Persians, for the price
at his home is always the same 4ti
has been said that a young woman
is harder to please in the selection
of a hat than anything else in this
wide. wide world-not even hus-
band excepted. From the day the
patience-exhausted trimmer tries
it on for the last time to its transfer
to the cook or house-girl it never
had been exactly what she wanted.
If q woman would act wisely she
would listen more to the suggestions.
of milliner and friends than most of
them generally do. We can't "see
ourselves as others see which,
being translated, means ahat becom-
ing to brunette 'looks horrid" on
the pretty blonde, even though the
size and contour of the face be al
most identical. So don't initiate
your ideal too closely, but listen to
what your milliner and friends have
to say.
Some of the more observant men
are rejoicing over the apparent pass
ing of the broad shovel, half-um-
brella ladies' hats. We don't blame
them, for but few ladies look we'll
under the huge scoop affairs. They
suggest snow-shoes "for summer
wear" on the head.
"The style" for the season seems
to leaning to the turban, so much in
vogue a few years since. IT'S not a
real turban, but just the hat to keep
the full face from looking fuller and
the thin face from looking thinner.
For elder ladies, what might be
called the half-scoop will be gener-
ally worn. One whom we believe to
be au fait in such matters says that
this shaped hat for more advanced
ladies is the most perfect that has
been brought out for years, being
neither gay nor sombre, neither
loud nor too subdued." Properly
trimmed it even looks "chic" and
attractive over a younger face.
And then there are other shapes
innumerable, colors indescribable
and "style" quite questionable
J Each one SEEMING tO he q stSla m