Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-03
SOCIETY EAps,


| The showing for Thea new spring and
summer hats is attractive and the
| promise for the coming season is alto
gether an agreeable one.
/ Apparently we are to have q great
| deal Of brown and there is q generous
amount Of the new color known as old
| apricot shown, which borders on
| brown, yet has something of the
warmth and the glow of the fruit after
which Il is named Maline Is intro
duced into almost every dressy mode+
/ in some one way or another, and more
| often than not II takes the form Of
| the under brm trimming, and is brown,
no matter what the color of the hat
/ may be. Horsehair and Neapolitan
straws are to have great vogue, and
| also there Is great deal of the Tuscan
shown, whilefleghorn and Porto Riean
| straws are to be noted in a great many
of the larger models.
/ Trimming materials are many and
varied, but the rule appears to be all
| the flowers that can possibly be piled
upon any single foundation and as
many sorts combined as it occurs to
! the designer can be done with success.
! one sees leghorn flats almost covered
| with trailing morning glories on one
side, with Tuscan models fairly laden
with roses of every possible shade Of
| pink on another, and also in few hats
| that combine flowers after a manner
a bit difficult to describe, and which
surely requires the artists sense to
mean anything like success. Moire rib
bon and moire silk are to be used
extensively, and also there is a great
deal of velvet ribbon shown. while
| there is q marked tendency to trimming
which falls way down in the back.
Again, there are a number of novel;
| ties shown with velvet ribbon hanging
| loose to be tied under the hair at the
back, but this last is largely confined
| to the mushroom and other dropping
shapes, while it has the effect of keep
ing the hat in form whatever the actual
effect may be. A great many mush-
room shapes and variations thereof are
| to be noted, and there is also what Is
known as the new sailor, which shows
a narrow brim at the front widening
at sides and back with a narrow low,
round, flat/crown and which is rather
tip tilted at the left side, but between
which and the sailor, as we once knew
it, is so little of resemblance as to
hardly suggest any connection what
soever. A very handsome model of
this last sort which takes an interme-
diate place between the very fancy hat
and the severe tailored one is of fine
brown English straw, with band or
apple green velvet about the crown
and trimmings of brown and green half
plumes at the left side with an abun-
dance of brown maline where the hat
is turned up and the bandeaux appears.
Another is of white horsehair braid,
abundantly trimmed with roses that
shade from the palest pink to the deep
est red and with the almost inevitable
brown maline beneath.
Some of the prettiest of the mush-
room models are to be seen in lingerie
style, but made of lace and fabric of
some sort. A lovely one, for example
combined a white crown, with rim Of
silver tissue, and is trimmed with
white tips and pale pink roses, while
another is all of fine lace and needle
work, with a more elaborate trimming
of roses than we have been accustomed
to see on hats of this sort.
The large, or what might be known
as Gainsborough, models are numerous
and marvelously effective, with their
trimming of combined plumes and
flowers and there are almost number
less plateaux that are bent and twisted
into shapes that shall best suit the
wearer's head, but which bear no