The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-27
POPULAR TURBANS
HAVE SWEPT AWAY
The MERRY WIDOW
Are Made of Flowers, Sequins
and Various Materials in All
Manner of Shapes.
FUR HATS FOR COLDER
DAYS MUCH PREFERRED
Helmet Style Not Liked, and Few
Will Be Worn, Dame
Fashion Rules.

Hats and toques, turbans and their
trimmings for the coming spring are
already under consideration. February
brings its exodus TO Palm Beach and
other Southern resorts, where straw
and lace headgear and thin frocks are
the thing, and fur and sleet are un-
known.
Hats, perhaps more than any other
feature of dress, are most uncertain in
dications in the between seasons Of
what the modes of spring and early
summer will really be.
Always there is the freak hat, the ri
d~iculously proportional toque and the
fearful and wondersome tumble of what
10 the casual observer seems the odds
and end of many a flower and ribbon
shop made into one far from homogene-
GUS whole to top, but not to adorn, the
feminine head
1t would appear just now that the inn
mense hats perpetrated on a compare
lively inoffensive public last summer
and autumn have been relegated to a
permanent back shelf.
The so-called picture and large hats
are the latest creations of the French
creators of millinery and are but mod
erately large, while the extremely small
toque is to be pushed to a momentary
victory.
Trying Crentions.
The word momentary is used adj
| visedly, for while the extremely small
chapeau spells comfort for all but it's
wearer. whose eyes 1t cannot protect. it
is the most trying of all millinery Gre
%ations, requires youth, beauty. plenty
of hair II a perfectly arranged Golf
fure to bear its trying exposure to
every defect of face and couture.
AS for the very large moujik tur-
bans that have been and are still in
evidence, they are dying the natural
death of all uncouth fashions, for no
woman looks well with her head APP
parently buried in a cushion that bids
fair to eclipse her head and face.
For stormy an. very cold weather
and for country wear he fur hat is,
il built SO as to be light in weight,
| and if not on the head too long at a
time, an ideal head covering.
Its softness of texture and tone of
coloring, in no matter what shade, is
becoming to all, young II old, home
ly or beautiful, colorless or blooming.
The right color of fur in the proper
shape of headgear and appropriately
trimmed or untrimmed, suits one and
all.
The gardenia as a decoration for fur
toques and hats has been o%verdone.
Everyone uses it and everything, from
the eXquisitely Parisian-made flowers
to the crudest of domestic productions,
appears.
A rich and expensive flower should
be used on good fur, or no flower at
all. Silver or gold ribbons, or grapes,
or costly bird of paradise and aigrette
plumes are all lovely and blend with
the fur to produce the most artistic
effects.
Small poinsettia blossoms look we'll In
rich brown and on cold gray furs, bur
in black the contrast Is, perhaps, a lit
tie too decided to please the truly ar
tistic eye.
For black hats there are all sorts of
lovely pink and rose-red blossoms, rich
roses that are lovely in black, because
while 4u.te as red as poinsettias they
lack the crude scarlet tones of that
bloom, being tinged sufficiently with
purple to have rich deep tones alone.
The helmet hat is about as ugly a
hat creation as could nave been created
with ever the faintest expectation of
its selling. Few of these will be worn.
and certainly no leader of fashion in
the modish world has so far been de-
tected committing the sartorial crime
Of wearing one.