Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25
Fall Hats and Summer Suits Fashion Cings
To the Dropping Brirn The Youth
fitness Of the New Models Trim
mings and Their Uses.

With the heat Of summer still upon US
and no thought as yet of the coming
Fall, the first fashion harbingers Of au-
tumn make their appearance in smart
millinery intended Tor wear with fall
tailormades, but appropriated by the sum-
mer girl for wear with those white and
colored linen suits which have been her
summer street garb since early June.
The fact that the dressy summer hat
is worn quite late In the season Is In all
probability responsible for the majority Of
tailored effects In the first models.
Revelations In these are not so numer-
Gus as one might expect, for the reason
that copies and adaptations of popular
summer shapes and duplicates Of late
summer novelties are represented In all
the high class openings. The variations
of thelmushroom are many. but each and
every zone Is so attractive in its shaping
as we'll as trimming that even those who
early tired of the summer model, will
look upon them with favor.
The all white hat of soft French felt
with trimmings Of ribbons, wings and
various feather effects is conspicuous In
headwear for the younger set. The white
hat goes well with late summer frocks
and does not look out of place like one Of
shapes prevail, for the small, close-ftting
hat is not SO youthful and consequently
as becoming. The only shape which
might be cassed as small Is the cowboy,
but even this has a medium brim, turn
Ing up from the face jauntily at the left
side and down over the hair in the back.
Young girls who affected the cowboy hat
In panama during the summer will be
happy to find 1t this fall In the softest of
white, tan and gray felts, simply banded
with ribbon, or trimmed to accompany
natty tailormade, with cog feathers of
gouras plumes, sweeping back from the
rolled brim where scarf Of chiffon cloth
folded around the crown finishes In soft
knot.
The gouras plumes, by the way, are to
be the fayorite feather trimming in high
class millinery. The prettiest Of these
are In two tone coloring-white with
brown. gray or black. Cog also is much
used in plume and boa effect.
In wings there Is a varied assortment
of shapes and colorings, plain colors and
combinations of colors which do much to
lven up a dark toned hat. The size of
wings is often astounding. Even the
small shapes use the huge effects which
seem fitted only for the company of the
broad brimmed sailor. but so artistically
are they posed that the effect is never
incongruous.
Crowns are much higher this season,
and seem to be SO only for the purpose
of forming foundation for the volumin-
Gus trimmings, so posed In many In
stances as to entirely conceal this por-
tion Of the lct Many of the wide
brimmed hats, and one sees scarcely any
thing else this season, are narrow in
front and wide at the sides, or, II the
brim Is not naturally narrow in front
this erect Is attained by rolling the
straight brim or wiring 1t in front and
bending 1t away from the face to show
the underbrim facing in darker tone If
the hat is light, such as brown velvet
With tan felt. Taffeta. silk is also en-
ployed as facing, and frequently en-
tire hats are made of 1t. Black taffetas
SILK hats have been worn In rarls all
summer, and In the made models which
have been imported this fall there seems
to be a Soodly number of these elk
novelties.
a feature Of the new hats which III
presses pne quite forcibly is their ap-
parent youthfuiness and the more or less
elaborate hair dressings which they de-
mand. With these picturesque effects
the hair must be arranged softly around
the face and pulled out close to the
brim so that there is no intermission be-
tween hat ana hair. Malines will In
many instances supply this effect for
the woman who has not been blessed
with an abundant chevelure and who has
certain scruples about wearing false
frisettes and puffs.
The bandeau or cache peigne finds a
place In almost every model, but Il serves
more often as a foundation for these
maline rucheB than as means of fitting
the hat to a becoming angle. Instances
are not lacking where it Is covered plain
with velvet and used as foundation for
false hair pieces to be worn only when
lthe hat is on the head and taken on with
1T. The Parisiennes first practiced this
little trick and many American women
have followed In their steps.
The broad brimmed sailor with trim
mings Of huge wings Is as smart hat
as one can ind anywhere this season.
There are, Of course. variations for those
TO whom the simplicity and severity OF
the straight brim is not becoming. One
OF these turns up slightly In cavalier
fashion on the left side, another curves
downward front and back Ike shep-