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The designers OF millinery are pro-
ducing new hats OF great and inter.
esting variety. Some of them are
charming or quaint; others are ex.
traordinary in size and line, and the
rest are wonderfully beautiful in line
and color. There are some hats that
reach down to the eyebrows, with
trimming sloping abruptly toward the
back, giving an unbecoming top.heavy
appearance that few women can wear
and look well. On very tall and slim
women these hats look perfectly gro.
tesque.
There are so many pretty and be.
coming shapes to choose from that It
is pity to encourage the freakish
There are soft straw toques for trav.
cling including the draped rajah tur-
bans, the folded capotes and the close.
ly fitted shapes with high rolling
brims at the side. Many of these are
of plaid straw or of a fortunate com.
bination of two tones that every wo-
man loves.
Leghorns with velvet ribbon and
masses of flowers for trimming are
we'll adapted for afternoon wear. If
a similar type is preferred the large,
fine straws with beauty of line and
a fnv largo nina nvtra al
chic. The huge black hat with its
bow of tulle or lace will look well
with any gown though there are other
hats equally worthy of consideration
This year ribbon bows are being
employed extensively. They are used
on the skirt and draperies and flounc-
es are festooned and held by ribbon
rosettes. Box-pleated ribbons are al
so a revived dress-trimming and
most profitable one for the ribbon
makers, for yards and yards of rib
bon are required for these pleatings
which are used in narrow widths on
sleeves and tichus and in very wide
flounce effects on skirts.
The huge bows which are placed
across the back of the new outing
hats are often made OF hemmed silk,
but very wide. Soft ribbon is also
used and is the easiest to tie grace
fully. Changeable ribbons make very
smart hat bows of this sort and some
times a strip of the ribbon, shirred on
cable cords, is arranged at the edge
of the brim as a facing. When rib
Don is used as the sole hat trimming
no expense should be spared in the
ribbon itself. 1t should be of the rich
est quality and sufficiently wide to
crush up into generously full loops
and folds. The messaline satin rib
bons are best for this purpose and
the new millinery colors are particu-
larly handsome
Many of the hats for midsummer
outing wear are of rough straw or
of leghorn trimmed with nothing but
big ribbon bows or choux, and per-
haps a facing of velvet; but in every
case these ribbon trimmings are so
handsome as to be quite sufficient
for Smartness.
Sashes will be very popular this
summer and with the promised re-
vival of old-fasihoned 1850 styles we
shall see the sash at the top of favor
again. The new sash, however, must
hang quite straight and simply
against the skirt wit hno futtering
loops or ends; in fact the smartest
sashes are heavily weighted at the
bottom, to keep them down.
The rich Persian and Dresden rib
bons are used as dress trimmings and
are used on wool and mohair frocks
in the same manner that embroidery
insertion is used on lingerie costumes.
Short dressing jackets show rib
bons at the throat, back, in front in
long loops and ends at the waist line,
which is usually rather short.
| There are some beautiful parasols
with eyelet embroidery to match
suits of linen, and others are trimmed
with embroidery set in,' matching
the lingerie gown prepared.