The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-28
Summer Hats
Not of Straw

vt IS almost time now for ones
light straw hat to begin to look
u passe. and soon the period win be
upon US when we long for the coming
days of quite respectable felt and
beaver.
In former years there has been no
help for this in-between season. but
this summer the light hat composed OF
other materials than straw has been
so popular that there is an easy solu-
ton to oneis difficulties.
First in favor come cretonne and
Powered silk. I do not speak now OF
the straw hats covered partly or entirely
with those pretty and useful materials,
but of the hats made wholly Of
them, the fabric being stretched over
the wire frame.
Then there are hats Of canvas. usually
tailored shapes, with quill or two
and a big buckle as trimming. These
look like common sacking. which
they really are IN origin, but they are
pretty and fashionable. And their best
points are their fnexpensiveness and the
ease with which they may be made by
the home milliner.
The strawlike braid which comes IN
glistening tans and browns. and looks
enough like straw to be its brother
instead of distant cousin. is also sewed
into the automobile caps and poke-bon-
net shapes so rnodish. 1t is simply wound
round and round. with the strands sewed
together.
Black satin-which IS the rage In
Paris-is being used also for these poke
bonnet shapes, being combined in most
instances with a frill OF white lace and
a wreath Of white or pale pink flowers.
This makes the stunningest possible
hat, and yet it will not show the ef-
feet Of summer sunshine as straw will
Patent leather is coming in again for
the crowns Of sailor hats, though this
Is a bit out of the province OF the home
worker, as it IS rather hard for anna
tours to apply 1t over the straw. But
the dull feathers which are also SEEM
especially in automobile caps. are easy
to put into crown. For so to IS cents
quite fair-sized skin can be obtained
in white, with a little more for colorss
and the cap fashioned therefrom.
Mohair. Of course, is always a be-
tween-season favorite. the black mohair
and horsehair hats looking just like
straw without many of the unpleasant
features Of that regulation material.
But this is the first time that the two
have been used on poks-bonnet and cap
shapes. so that they could be sewed to-
gether by the amateur milliner. Horse
hair melts into a shapeless mass in the
rain, but can be restored by taking of
the trimming and judiciously applying
a hot iron.
Never has there been such a turning
to wide brimmed shapes covered with
fabric as this season. Besides the ere
tonne and lowered silk already men
toned. there are chintz; plain liberty
silk and satin. usually in black or the
coIors for covering and facing; and all
the varied lingerie materials.
For. of course. the lingerie hat comes
peculiarly into its own at this season.
In lawn. muslin. dotted and plain net.
and lace. especially Valenciennes and
eyelet embroidery, it is seen every
where Plain linen hats, scalloped or
embroidered in white, are also fashion
able In the low-crowned. broad brimmed
shapes.
So here is a multiplicity OF materials
may devise her own between season
headgear; and let no woman henceforth
complain that fashion has not paid
ample attention to her needs. her tastes
and her income