The Jersey City news., 1906-05-19
Very Attractive Specimens
Are Shown In the Leading
Milliners' ware Rooms
PEACOCK FEATHERS EPIDEMIC
NEAPoLITAN's AND BRAIDs
VERY POPULAR AND DREssY-
HOUSEHOLD POINTERS


ready made shapes have more variety
and merit than usual The attractive
ness of the small shapes guarantees
their popularity for street wear, but for
toilette de ceremonie large hat is bet
ter. Ostrich plumes play conspicuous
part in the adornment of the summer
nat Nine out of ten of the handsomest
dress hats sport plumes and the. methods
Of using this trimming are phenomenally
varied. Superb clusters of outstanding
ostrich tips posed at the left front, con-
gtitute almost the ouly trimming Of GER
tain models The back is filed in with
black tulle; and hats of this type in all
black are practically favored by women
who can wear them. Very fine horse
hair or neapolitan rs the braid most often
chosen and great skill is put into shap-
ing the lines of the hat. for success de-
pends upon the pose and lines and upon
plumes instead of being. as it is in many
hats, promoted by delectable coloring
and detail
Ribbon is a distinctive feature of the
new millinery. 1t is used upon every
turban. for which it may constitute the
entire triming, TO the most elaborate hat,
where it is combined with plumes or
flowers. Exquisite fowered ribbons are
manipulated with consummate skill by
the milliners, sometimes being covered
by tulle, which gives a blurry, cloudy
effect to the ribbons coloring and de-
sign. One hat is shown in window
Is massed at one side with huge rosettes
and loop of pompadour taffeta ribbon;
under the brim is filed in with wreath
of cherries. Some small hats are
trimmed in ceverly adjusted folds and
loops and bows of lowered ribbon and
mating the ribbon design. One piquant
little hat is trimmed with high bows of
ponrpadour and one large rose.
Peacock feathers might be called cpl
demic. The feathers are produced in
beautiful colorings, often in one tone on
in shades of some soft color and are
distinctly smart upon street hats. There
is smart model IN burnt straw drapery
of pink tulle and old blue bronze. Words
fail to describe the fantastic effects
which the manufacturers have obtained
in plume clusters and in combined os-
trich plumes. aigrettes. etc. In tone col
orings many of these feathers are truly
superb. though audacously extreme.
Tie aigrette of other years seems tiny
sksGcwy thing compared to the huge,
though delicate brushes that are upon
some of this seasons hats. and the i'm
mense sweeping paradise plumes that
stream cut at the sides or back Of GER
tain models.
AS for flowers of the season, they beg
gar descriptien-the roses, whether nat
ural or unnatural in color, are used in
ali sizes and colors, pale pink and mauve
roses in combination, mauve and light
blue roses, roses in all the crushed reds
and pinks. as the fad for pink has
bought an unusual number of pink roses
in delicate shades. Moss roses have a
decided vogue, fine and delicate flowers.
and as modish in their way as the more
imposing blossoms; and the French mill
liners have made good use of these small
er flowers in bunch form.
All the fine straws and braids enter
into the mi!l:ner's calculations. and many
of the most original and attractive crea-
tions in the tucked stTaws and chip and
erinoline hats are draped with their own
materials, the drapery being made in one
wish the hat itself Leghorn is more pop
ular Than in many years past. Neapoli-
tan is very modish and host Of other
bra;ds, new and old, have important
places in the millinery world. Dark
burnt and natural straws shades. and
similar straws, are especially liked for
the street hat; and the black velvet.
which plays so great part in the seas
on's millinery. is a trimming so often
chosen for ibis dark straw color-howers
quills or wings furnishing the more strik-
ing trimming element.
The fancy for massing the trimming,
not only tulle ribbon. etc, but plumes and
paradise feathers. too, at the back Of
the hat, and allowing it to stand out
from the head and droop downward while
the front of the hat goes almost untrim-
med. was introduced last winter. but re-
tains it's vogue in spite of the fact that
it is almost invariably unbecoming, Ev-
cry imaginable period Of French history
is to be found represented in the Fat
crowns and lisns from Francis to lssso: