St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-04-14
OUR FASHION LETTER.


Charming Modes for Spring and Summer
The Easter Hat-Huge Crowns with
Tiny BrimS-Fruit for Trimming
FrOckS of BatiSte, Swiss and Cotton
Observation-Disclosures Weddings.
The Easter hat is much more puz-
cling proposition for the fashionable
woman than it has been for years. This
year the millinery is so bizarre that it is
needful to change nearly all ones ideas
in regard to what summer hat should
be before satisfactory selection can be
made. The crowns of many Of the new
models are SO broad and the brims so
narrow that in many cases the style of
hairdressing has to be altered and made
wider in effect before the chapeau can be
considered really becoming.
All the new hats are worn we'll down
on the head, even lower than they were
during the winter and this fact with
bowl shaped or fiat on the top, gives
them very heavy. substantial look.
One of the popular imported models is
shaped almost exactly like small in
verified dish pan. An example just sent
over from Paris is composed entirely of
violets and tiny yellow rosebuds with
the top of the fiat crown a mass of green
foliage, while just above the microscopic
brim is band of pinkish magenta rib
bon ending under small bow at the left
side.
Grin, tuscan, milan and very coarse
straws of beautiful colorings are all pop
ular. A smart hat is in the new huge
turban shape with very high crown. 1t
is made of a rough ridged ecru straw and
trimmed with wide band of brown vel
vet and on the left side a huge bunch OF
grapes and cherries combined with foil
age.
The milliners are making a great use of
fruit this season. Clusters of cherries are
most popular but grapes are close sec
ond, black, white, red or green. Cur
rants are used too as are plums, peaches
and clusters of nuts. These are seen in
all shades, natures limitations not being
in the least needed in the matter of artif-
cial fruits and flowers. The combining of
fruit and flowers or of several different
kinds of flowers on the same hat is new
idea this season. A sort of floral rosette
composed of large rose or cluster of
flowers surrounded by wheel effect of
smaller blossoms is greatly used.
Linens will be more than ever worn
the coming season, AMI manufacturers
and Overs have combined to produce
every known color and tint on the fash
ionabe color card. Lord & Taylor
show every choice shade in the plain
colors that make such desirable and
elegant costumes Tor all occasions from
shopping suits to toilets suitable for the
most elaborate wear. The fruit shades
are here in all their gradations, the new
brownish tan that is a very French idea,
smoke shades, powder blues and excel
lent blacks, as we'll as rose and mustard
yellow, crash, duck, and the smooth
texture of French woven and dyed linen
are represented in this showing.
Easter brides are to be most pictur-
esque, and Directoire satin is the chosen
fabric this spring for the gown of gowns.
A great deal of lace is used about the
waist but the skirts are usually quite
plain, sometimes in tunic shape or the
new Tapped effect or trimmed with bands
or folds of the satin itself run over cords
and put on in braiding designs. The
bridal wells are about three
quarter length, not coming down to the
bottom of the skirt as used to be the
mode, but reaching about to the knees.
The bride belonging to very wealthy
family has her veil of real lace-hve
hundred dollars being no unusual sum to
pay for one of these adornments-but
the maiden of more modest means has
to be content with tulle, and she can
console herself with the idea that it is
many times more becoming than the
costly lace.
The lingerie frocks are things of
beauty. made of plain or embroidered
batiste, null and swiss, cotton marquis
cite and cotton crepe are also used to
make these delightful summer costumes.
All the new models are in one piece or
have the skirt and waist joined by bands
of lace or embroidery insertion. The