Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-17

Necessity has mothered a certain amour
of invention, but of what will really be
worn next summer these January hats tel
little.
Still some of them are pretty, very pretty
and they will not only answer the purposes
OF the sojourper in southern lands ou
will doubtless be all right for certain sorti
of wear next summer.
As the frocks are modelled on the lines OF
the winter frocks, while the materials hint
at summer, so the hats show warm
weather materials adapted to winter
shapes.
The flower toque is always a southern
and twixt seasons refuge for the per-
picked, and the milliners have brought out
during the last month some delectable
shapes entirely covered with violets-big
, turbans echoing the lines of the low-posed
broad, brimless turbans OF fox or other
long-haired fur which have been a winter
fad. In the p~rettiest of these turbans the
| violets are shaded from dark next the face
to light at the top, and the trimming con-
sists Of a big knot of deep violet velvet, a
rakish cluster OF feathers, or perhaps a
sheaf OF purple iris used featherwise and
carrying out the color scheme of the vio-
lets.
other violet turbans are not so large and
bowlike and show some semblance of a
brim. Turbans like the violet models In
shape are made up. too, in camellias-all
white and green, with possibly a knot OF
colored velvet for relief.
These models can be worn even in the
north during late winter and early spring,
but the straw hats are for the delectation
OF southern travellers only. There are big
broad turbans among these, too, usually
for,,oa 90 F{ro hraId 5,,raa ,,l ~
trimmed next the face with a wide band or
brim of heavily corded silk finished by a
big chou Of the same silk at the side.
other models, like one illustrated here,
are draped of fine. supple, satiny straw
and trimmed in a huge chou OF black silk
mousseline or net, through whose center
is run a pin with big cut jet head. In a
gold yellow which bids fair to be a popular
color in the spring straws. a turban OF this
sort is admirable, and in a very light pearly
gray and black the model also works out
we'll.
All the modish colors are represented in
the new braids, and the new flowers.
though only heralds OF the seasons out
put, promise lovely things, Masses OF small
red and white clovers are effectively used
on some OF the rev hats and should be
later on, for they are easily handled
and extremely pretty.
Among the group OF flower trimmed leg
horns was a clover trimmed model which
would attract admiration even in the later
season. A very fine soft leghorn bent to
form a poke shape. but not wired, had its
crown wreathed in pink and white clover.
On the left side. toward the back. was set
a bow of wide, soft liberty in the shade OF
the red clover, and strings of the liberty
loosely knotted were TO be worn either in
the front or the back.
Strings, usually not serving any practical
but caught up and knotted IN
graceful fashion at the back, appear
upon a number OF the more picturesque
PREDETERMINED straw hats. Almost all Of
the popular winter shapes are represented
among these lew crowned, broad brimmed
summer hats, but with less exaggeration
Of size than was apparent in the winter
Wide, cleverly draped scarfs Of silk NOUS
seline are favorite trimmings for straw
hats of this class. and often the scarf is
drawn through a big straw buckle match.
the straw of the hat. Other models
are draped in scarfs Of liberty or soft
'aille and finished with a bow or chou, or