The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-02-19
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EARIY FALL HA

AA/ weather, when at least the
wv nights arc cool and we desert
the vcrandas to gather round
.he living-room light, by some curious
psychological process yet unexplained.
womcn's thoughts revert first and fore
most TO hats During the last few
wears that euriously barbarous nine
teenth century habit OF wearing hats
constantly and under any and all cir
cumstanccs save very formally or very
informally within doors. has been pass
ing away and VIC have been returning
TO Il more sensible. sanitary and sane
practice during the hot weather OF
troubling ourselves with headgcar as
little as possible.
| remember a decade or so ago the
antagonism ! aroused at watering
place BY appearing for stroll through
the shady drives without hat The
dowagcrs and spinsters-it was IN New
England-litcrally sat up straight in
their never silent or uncreaking rock
ing chairs and took notice. heard
comments, angry and bitter enough Tor
the worst social offcnSc. 1T this, my
breach OF decorum. Yet this summer,
when returned to this very watering
place, / found not only the young and
giddy but the matured and sedatc gong
about constantly allowing Gods fresh
air to play about their tresses, unpro-
tected by any visible kind OF headgear.
Sensible Modern Summer Fa1hio5s
could not but marvel at this change
and rejoice in it. Certainly during the
summer we should by all means try to
be as cool as we can. Linen and lawn
are now the favorite summer fabrics.
materials which are cool in themselves
and can readily go into the waShtub.
And at this period, too, it is not only
much more comfortable but much more
healthy to have ones head free from
the heavy and hot form OF headgcar
women are obliged to wear
II is natural for US TO reject the hat
In summer. Our ancestors. five genera
lions back, If we may judge by the pic
turcs of the times which have come
down to us, certainly had not formed
the pcrniciouS habit. Probably. do not
know, it is ono OF the customs for which
&C rise up to call the mid-Victorian era
unblessed. Fortunately it is passing
away and | cannot but feel that our in
tense interest in hats in the carly
autumn is rcasscrtion of an instinct
7ot only primitive but rational.
Tho Explanation
Our avidity is explained because for
some months we have been deprived OF
one gcwgaw. Do not think for a
moment that | impugn this very same
avidity for gewgaws, but a vision of
the fall styles suggested that term ire
siStably. | am myself the vcricst ador-
ing worshipper of a pretty hat, and
surely | am justified by some of these
Paris creations | am showing you, re-
preventative of the best and most
favored styles seen along the boulevards
But i; is to be. candidly, season of
gewgaws. There is no set or particu-
larly favored style in millinery, but there
is marked proclivity toward the use
of jcwelcd ornaments IN trimming
buckles, buttons, bands, curious little
rings of flashing near gems are all the
rage at present and promise to continue
throughout the winter he latitude in
shapes. ooloringS, materials. kinds of
trimmings is really extraordinary: one
sees everything from the simplest toQue
10 I mauniSh derby on one hand and
curiously armor-hke things on the other,
these being modern adaptation of middle
age costumes which had such influence
OF the modes OF gowns last winter. Per-
son1lly, ! do not think | should care to
extinguiSh myself under such oontrap-
tionS but 10 certain contours of face and
oolorings. with appropriate gowns. they
are extremely becoming IN addition to
that other pleasing quality. attracting
and holding cvcryonc'S admiring gaze.
Still. for the everyday woman such cx-
trcmcs OF style are emphaucally not
The Season q Paradise
For the everyday woman, moreover
the latitude OF the season is a paradise
As | have commented on several times
Ill these letters. the growing tendency OF
women to free themselves from the
slavery OF rigorous fashion. the Sipe qno
nor of prevailing mode, is one of the
most wholesome evidences of woman's
development. More and more, the folly
OF wearing a certain fashion OF gown
or hat because ii is the fashion is be.
ing subjected to the force OF common
sense; of wearing the thing that suits
And. Ill passing, VIC cannot thank toe
much the remarkably sensible woman o.
the French stage, who really set III,
style the world over, for the growth Of
this custom.
Examples OF the French Stage
| am told that millners have ravec
because Madame Rejanc persists in dc