Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-17
FASHION IN PARIS
Special Correspondence OF The Star.

Special Correspondence OF The Star.
PARIS November g. 1908.
II you have a large bank account and q
small sense of the ridiculous you will come
off winner in a hat-hunting expedition
this season. / know it's rank -heresy 10
speak of the Partisan ehapeau as anything
save chic but the truth Is that am just
home dead tired out and disguised from an
inspection of the creations. chef d oevres,
masterpieces. what you Will, OF the most
famous millinery artists this gay capitai
boasts And the sight has not been an
alluring one. At the present moment my
frame Of mind Is very much that OF the
Irishman who said. Between the good
ness of the bad people and the badness or
the good vans. Dim glad It's not meseif
that'n be after separating the shape from
the goats" So Ii is with the hatS-oetween
the goodness of their shape and the bad
ness of their trimming. it Is hard indeed
to separate the shape from the goats.
The lines in the best models are delight
full. and the possibilities of fitting them be-
comingly to the individual fascinating.
but the trimmings the thing that plays
such tricks before high heaven as to make
the angels weep. Why. 1 saw a hat at
Carriers that would have been a dream of
loveliness but-well, il was round turban
affair carried out In draped red velvet OF a
lovely ruby tone. The frame was pinched
up in front with a tight knot and buckle
supporting a stiff. high bow. The artist
married what was well by placing at &C.
centric angles two long bird of paradise
aigrets that shot out comet fashion over
each ear. The effect was monstrouS, and
proved another illustration of good angels
and bad devils squabbling for supremacy.
1 heard some one say the other day-a
man, by the way. it was-that a pretty
woman could wear anything and look pref
~. This is a mighty taking doctrine, but
try the above described turban on the head
of the pretty lady and see how the theory
works in practice. --------
Do you remember Glad. the little raga-
muffin philosopher in Mrs. Burnetts THE
Dawn of a Tomorrow" and her sunny
maxim, IF things amt cheerful. peoples
got to be-" Now this season If hats aren't
pretty, people have got to be made to look
pretty in them. But as you value your
beauty / beg of you not to become utterly
exhausted and purchase a hat because the
pretty milliner's assistant looks well in 1t.
This has been the cause of sad mistakes
In headgear and of so many women look
ing as If they had chosen their hats blind
folded.
saying penitently, II did think the queer
looking piece of headgear would be
fright on me. but when that attractive
milliner girl stuck it on her fluffy POM
padour and said 1t was Just as becoming
to me as 1t was to her-for l. too, had lots
of hair-why. l was foolish enough to have
the thing sent home"
But what woman would care to be thought
logical? If we were thoroughly reasoning
and reasonable creatures should we ever
get a proposal or a partner at a dance?
or course not. We would only add to the
nonotony of the world by letting the Sc
quence of our actions be foretold. To be
strictly candid. women hug their own enig-
ma a precious possession. We don't
want to be aggravating, but we apparently
are. We don't understand ourselves. and
we have no real desire to. We prefer to
envelop ourselves in the mystery OF the
eternal feminine and to look upon our
selves riddle that cannot be solved
even by Sitting still and looking at II"
* .-~,r.,
To get back again to our subject, the new
millinery, 1t seems to be modelled this year
for youthful faces and luxuriant tresses,
and the outlook would be distinctly dreary
for the woman who cannot lay claim to
either asset were 1t not possible to assume
a virtue even though one have 1t not. and
10 meet the hiatus that often occurs be-
tween hat and hair the smart atelier car
ries a supply of false hair and other little
coiffure aids After hat has been Sc
lected as possible purchase. madame takes
her client into another room and gives her
lesson upon the art of adjusting the new
possession.
But in the matter of coiffure there Is one
essential detail in which la mode is ar
btrary this winter. that of waving the
hair. II is not good form to be so palpably
MARCHED as to suggest thoughts of the
curling iron to the beholder. But one must
display a wealth of softly waving locks
this season or be considered hopelessly out
of date. And still another hint. Side
combs are out of date, but smart high
combs of Spanish empire design are
worn in the back of the head. They serve
the double purpose OF pretty ornaments and
supports for the hat.
Not many of the hats this season are
ordered to match the gown. and the all
black affair has returned to favor, to be
worn with all kind OF costumes. 1t will
serve as a theater hat. and Is really
most economical piece of headgear. though
at the start 1t is apt to be rather expensive.
for black creation to be successful must
be built of the best materials. This hat
goes with all kinds of afternoon frocks
and when on the picture order Ii has a
festive air worn on those occasional times
OF gayety that come into the lives of even