The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-21
GOTHAM FASHION NOTES.
From the Evening Times New
York Correspondent.

York Correspondent. Z.
New York. April 1S.-No matter how
much the moralists denounce or the
aristocrats rail at the Easter hat it
appears each season fresh and beau
tiful and in numbers as the sands of
the sea.
This Easter was no exception for the
city avenue. and the village main
street saw the same blossoming of
pretty women and girls. lin violets
and rosies, and all sorts Of posies,"
with lace and ribbon as fancy and the
purse permitted.
The majority part of the display was
tasteful and becoming. The pit-tilted,
eccentric hat appeared just often
enough to show the others in charming
relief.
One of the odd hats was of turQuois
blue straw. trimmed with twist of
white velvet, a wreath of white roses
and two white ostrich feathers. Not
at all bad combination, but the shape
was an ultra perched and twisted one,
set up from the head by bandeau
four inches wide at the back, giving
the effect of having almost no connec-
ton with the pretty head that bore it.
A much prettier hat was in coffee
colored eight shaded straw. One side
was folded back envelope fashion and
held In place by graceful bow of
darker brown velvet from which fell
bird of paradise feathers In shades of
brown and orange.
OF course the short brim sailor was
out in full force, this being the favor
its shape this spring. Flower crowns
or crowns wreathed In flowers, were
very much in favor An unusually
pretty hat of this style was Of velvet
straw braid, the entire crown being
composed OF American Beauty roses
with foliage. The hat was raised at
| the left side and at the back. the
bandeau being covered with velvet rib
bon with one beautiful rose against
the hair at the front.
A dashing and noticeable little sailor
was of deep red rough straw bound
with cardinal red velvet. The trim
ming was Persian red and gold rib
bon. The hat was tilted at the left
side showing a bandeau covered with
the cardinal velvet and of cardinal
red.
Another bright and noticeable color
being much used this season is yell
low in varied and beautiful tinA. 1t
| is color which has been out of favor
for some time and its revival gives it
touch of novelty. There is an Or
| child yellow with touch of pink in
it's shading that is very becoming to
the brunette type. Amber is another
| shade much liked and very effective,
as we'll as the softer tones of orange.
| Cream-corn yellow is one of the pref
test tints of this lovely color.
There is an attempt to revive among
| feathers the once fashionable aigrette.
! But the genuine aigrette has many
| painful associations as it is taken from
! the breast of the living bird and, know
| ing this, no true woman can wear it
as an ornament The aigrettes that
| are manufactured are usually stiff and
ungainly, but they are used by some
| milliners with good effect and are
worn by Indifferent customers-that is,
| if woman is ever Indifferent to her
head-covering.
From results it would sometimes
seem that women are either easily in,
fuenced by reckless saleswoman or
| do not see themselves as others see
| them. A young girl can put almost
| ANYTHING on to her head and she will
still be young and pretty. But with
the woman it is different. They are
of course much more dependant on
their settings of gown and bonnet, and
this season must go very carefully
among the rather grotesque shapes the
mflliners are Offering.
Nothing so quickly transforms
fine-looking, sensible woman into a
ridiculous and foolish-looking one
than the wrong hat or bonnet. Itsmay
be well just here to assert, as l can
on good authority. that the Paris
grande danes will not have anything
to do with the ultra shapes and colors,.
and the Paris milliners resent any in
situations that they are responsible
for the eccentricities, the angles and
curves of many of the imported hats.
They declare that the Paris hats are
built on saner and more intelligent
lines than the tilted and distorted
creations labeled Paris After all it is
largely a matter of deft and tasteful
choice and in just the right twist and
turn and selection who can rival the
French milliner These same milliners
are showing some charming veilings.
One ready to wear Is three yards long,
of washable chiffon, soft and fine as
a cObweb, with the ends hand painted
in large flowers. When over the face
and about the hat and throat with
floating ends, the effect is graceful and
pretty In! the extreme.
All the veilings this season are most
attractive in material and in color.
Even the plainest woman can find
something among them to hide her de-
fects. and enhance her attractions.
Some, Of, the expensive new wells have
close together pin head dots and a bor-
der Of real lace.
The Easter gowns were all in keep
ing with the hats displayed. The prin-
cesse style was good deal in evil
( dence. But every woman Is not a Hebe
or . Venus. and unless the princesse
dress 10 properly fitted and hung It is
apt to make the slim woman look like
} . draped bean-pole and the stout wo-
I man like an over filled meal bag. One
I Of these princesse dresses was de-
cided success. It was Of plum colored
cloth Of rich shade and soft, weave.
/ The skirt was In box plaits stitched
/ nat to the knees. or itlRt ah0vA cl0RA