The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-07-01
Domgs in the
World
BY PHOEBE A. REED.

The prediction In regard to the hat
monstrosities of the very early season
Is sure to hold good, and already truly
smart folk are turning the cold Shout
der upon the extreme peach basket and
bowl shapes, which have been hope
lessly commended. and, at best, gave
the milliners little opportunity for ex-
ercise of what is best in their art.
There will be quaint shapes. odd
shapes. picturesque shapes ali through
the season, but those that survive will
really have something in the way OF
charm to recommend them. Spec
tacular freaks nave but passing vogue,
and the great army of conservative
hough modish women invariably
makes its veto and it's demand fell
before midseason.
me poke shapes are interesting the
mllliners and the hat wearers as well.
Freaks there are along this line, and
the Easter show brought a host OF ex-
IRENE pokes; but the poke bonnet in
many Of its forms is a piquant and at
tractive affair. becoming. as h huge
eXtlnEuishing basket rats can never be,
and 1t may be modified to suit even the
most demure taste.
we shall see much OF the poke idea
the season, and. too, we
shall see many conservative shapes
picturesque without being bizarre
hats with graceful. c%urving brimes re-
Veal1ng at least a part Of the forehead
n with color. trimming and large
crown to mark them as OF this seasons
vintage, yet with no trace of this sea-
sons eXaggerations.
AT the smartest Mecca OF tea drink
ers last Saturday afternoon there vas
an amazing display of spring toilets.
some of them absurd to n degree, but
1he three most eXquisitely gowned
Women who appeared all Wore hats of
me graceful, conserv; tive type. One
nat was a large model in absinthe
green erin. the brim curving up SOFTLY
from the face at the left front to show
a facing of natural PONCE color and
the trimming a group of plulnes in the
eoior OF the erin and in two slightly
darker shades of the same color.
A second hat had a rather low wide
Crown and i wide brim, dropping Just
a trife more at the sides than in front.
giving a Very faint suggestion of the
Eohe lines. The material was one OF
the very coarse, lustrous straw braids
which are modish and take the dyes
beautifully, and was a d~eliciously pale,
creamy pink. A wide scarf of blaci;
velvet was drawn closely around the
crown and tied in a big soft bow at
the sack. where the brim was much
narrower than in front or on the sides.
At one side of the crown this scarf was
caught by a cluster of medium-sized,
1~oose-petaled pink roses. On the other
side was a similar bunch Of roses, but
in pale, creamy yellow.
The third hat was a fine yellow Leg
horn. with a jet buckle and big black
brush plume for the only trimming.
Apropos of the Leghorns, one Of the
most fetching hats IN the shop Of a
popular milliner is a wide-hrimmed
yellow Leghorn of exquisite quality,
on whose left front at massed the bic
purple-black pansies which are one OF
the smartest of the seasons flower Of
ferings. A soft silk scarf OF the same
curious purple. which is almost black
and has a blush one in some lights,
is around the crown OF the hat. These
blue-black purple pansies are effec-
lively used on darker hats also, very
dark blues having the preference.
Certain soft greens-willow, absinthe,
tilleul. etc,-are lovely in the new
straws and also in erin. and hats in
these tones are greatly liked.