Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-27

with its foliage cover the entire crown Of
one big white and black hat Morning
giories. wlstaria daisies OF all colors,
cowsllps, cornflowers, poppies' nastur-
tiums, wall flowers, hawthorn, all the
flowers OF spring and summer sugges-
tion that are not too heavy for grace
are requesitoned for the milliner ana
a glare Of roses-roses Of every imaginab \
sire, kind and color.
There again art plays pranks with nature
and there are many roses used in soft
dull tones which the natural rose never
assumes. There 10 a fancy. too. for roses
which DO not even follow nature closely
IN line. make indeed no pretsnce Of natur-
alness. There are stiff bottonliko little
flowers Of bllk, obviously and inslstently
artificial and suggesting that period Of
artifioiality par excellence, thu time OF
Louis XIV and Louis XVI.
These prim stiff little buds and flowers
are posed stiffly on some Of the smartest
hats and have a certain attractive quaint
ness in addition TO their undoubted value
as color notes; but they arc used single
or In little noseEays or stiff little wreaths
rather than In masses, and arc either
associated with hats covered with some
fiowered or figured stuff. with lingerie
plumes.
A fad of the season. too, is the rose Of
mousseline, but this has more Of the hard
stiffness Of the silk roses Just described.
On the contrary II IL peculiarly soft and
flutfyl and in delicate pink these silk
mouHselino roses large or small. are de-
oidedly pretty and effective.
Enormous quantities Of tuiie are used
hNr hn mil g,f,
ready one hears in the most exclusive
quarters rumors Of the passing Of the
mode; but It would bo q pity we're over
popularity to doom a fashion which has
so much In its favor. The soft drapSf
crowns of tulle, the vsilings Of tuiio
shrouding flowers. ribbon, straw, -, the
big tulle bows. the entire turbans Of
draped tulle all are unqusstiopsbly attrao-
tive and there is enough difference be-
tween tulle as handled by an artist eEt
tulle as handled by bungler to make tho
gulf between the chic hat And tho common
place hat strilSngiy obvious.
The lavish use OF lace is another feature
OF the millinery season and delightful
effects are obtained with the fine laces.
The fine black laces Of the chantilly sort
are peculiarly in evidence upon the very
modish hats and every fashionable milliner
is showing wide brimmed hats with high
draped crowns OF black lace over mousse
line and straw brims or with draped
crown Of lace and straw brim covered
with lace.
There are. too, many extreme models
whose big, full, high crowns are of chan
tilly over mousseline, while comparatively
narrow brims sharplygdrooping all around,
are either Of straw or of mousselirs or
silk wired and lace covered. The usual
trimming for this shape is a velvet rib
bon folded around the base Of the crown
and an ornament or q stiff cluster OF
flowers set Just ip front.
Crowns have scared higher and higher
and though there are many turbans and
small hats indications point to Very large
hats again for midsummer. The wide
brims show considerable diversity, but al
most all roll in, one way or another
The shape with wide brim rolling up
close to the high crown at the left front
and side is popular and many of the best
models of this type are trimmed like the
hat sketched here in a wreath Of handsome
large roses running up over the uprolled
brim and on diagonally across the hat
crown to the brim on the other side.
Shapes rolling up almost exactly in front
must be considered carefully Some of
these models with bunohes and high egrets
Of flowers set on brim and crown a little
to the left of the front and with high
crowns swathed in tulle, mousseline OF silk
are exceedingly good looking.
The most generally becoming of the large
hats is of course the one with brim rolling
or rather lifted very slightly across tho
front and rolling decidedly, but not close
to the crown on the left side and there
are scores of variations upon this theme
among the loveliest Of the new models.
The shape illustrated in the sketch OF
the Leghorn with morning glory covered
crown is new and chic as we'll as becoming
and the little roll at the right side of the
wide brim is a relief from the extreme and
all eclipsing droop of the right side.
Wide brims rolled In the back and left
side and dropping in the front and right
side are among the novelties and are very
attractive II well posed and successfully
trimmed
The big bicorne is familiar from it's win
ter popularity and appears in flower
trimmed guise. but Is really at its best
when associated with plumes. An extraor-
dinarily good looking bicorne is shown by
one importer and is OF white chip, trimmed
in black velvet and in beautiful velvet
peoples, white, black and coral red.