The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-05-14

1t seems as though enough trimming wa
heaped upon these to make up for the hat
which have little or none lake the loa
of fruit under which some of these hat
stagger. 1t would not be safe for light
| headed person to wear one OF these loads
Far in the lead come cherries One VIC
man counted 100 hats trimmed with cher
ries one morning. She was telling it to
friend as sample of the way women fol
low each other in style, for all the worl'
like sheep after a leader. The next Sun
day, she felt the force of her remarks whel
she saw her friend appear in cherr,
| trimmed hiatt Then, after cherries, come
grapes, plums, life-size apples, pears, anC
| tropical fruits.
A high school boy said to his teacher
grape fruit | tell you, when | get mar
| ried. my wife's going to have hers trimmed
! with watermelons if she wants.
Just here is put little statement tc
cover those women who are wearing some
! of these hats and who hate them, but
| who having bought their spring hats, can
not afford to buy any more until fall
They are the unfortunate women who can
never stand up and get what they want
from the seductive millinery saleswoman.
They are 'easy.
1t is fact that the most skillful and art
full saIeswomen are always found In mlllln-
ery places. Their mission is to sell hats
that cost more than the customer intended
to pay, on this ground.
"What is dollar or two, when this hat
looks so sweet on you. You can make 1t
up in shoes. What are shoes" in with
ering tone. Its the hat that tells!'
sOh. yes, that hat" which is about the
price which the customer wanted to pay,
well. to tell you the honest truth, that
hat isn't suited to your style. It., IN
whisper, "makes you look old" Down
with that hat and on with the youthful
one. though it does cost too much. This
kind of a saleswoman gets these hats of
this spring off on the women in some such
way as this She frankly admits that they
are monstrosities.
yes, amt they awful" she agrees.
mo, you really can't call them sweet, and
vet they are attractive.
"Why-oh. they are so new, and swell,
awfully swell, nothing sweller, the very
SWEETEST thing we ever carried
"0h, you can't expect it to look soft and
sweet That's not the style this year, but
the effect on you will be decidedly good
No one would know but that you bought
it yesterday in New York.
ooh, of course you want it. No one
really likes them, but they are the thing
and no one who dresses as well as you do.
would want to be all out of style with the
hat No one can wear last years hat
this year without being found out" This
last severely. as if reading the customers
inmost thoughts.
The customer quails, hestates, and is
lost. She has bought bushel basket
One wonders who was the first woman
in each city to appear with one of these
overpowering hats. She certainly ran the
but then some women like that
kind of thing She was followed by the
women who would starve before they
would venture on the streets without look
ing stylish.
A young girl looked longingly at hat
shaped for all the world like a mans tall
silk hat. The crown was made of tiny
green roses sewed all over it, the diminu-
tive brim was of silk straw and three
plumes fell off the side in some such mirac
ulous way that falling off, they still stayed
on
81 think it is interesting as a specimen. |
but as hat to wear. no" said a woman to
whom the young lady addressed her ex
clamation by isn't that too sweet"
But it's so awfully stylish" persisted |
the girl. anyone would know that you |
were right up to the latest if you had |
hat like that" Right up to the latest,
that's what finds wearers for even the |
hats of this year. II would be an awful