Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-08
POPULAR HAT SHAPE IS
COLLAPSIBLE ENVELOPE
Very Similar to Robin Hood
Models

New York, April THE millinery
Openings, as well as the practical eG-
hibitions on the streets during the bal
my days, have shown that we will re-
main true to certain freakish, but
rleN e. hats, writes Alma Rittenhouse
The shape known as the Robin Hood Is
in favor, but it has given place in
some degree to collapsible envelope
! hat and a fireman's helmet without
brim
The former is in soft straw, in all
colors rests squarely on the head,
covering the hair, and has it's long
pointed flap neatly turned over like
the flap of an envelope and is caught
down over the left ear with a large
| tiut button made of straw
The poke bonnet has been with us
for some weeks, but we never fairly
realized how popular it was to become
until it had appeared on the heads Of
hosts of girls. 1t is round and simple,
like the bonnet of our grandmothers or
it is aggressive and scooped, like the
dashing bonnet of the directoire 1t IS
trimmed with a wreath of posies, or it
has flashing plumes at the back that
stand upright and curl over at the
tips.
| Some of the shapes are cut out at the
! back in order to show an outstanding
psyche knot or an empire bunch Of
curls and puffs. Others have loops of
ribbon, and still others have wide
streamers that ar cited into a fiat
/ bow under the hair at the nape of the
neck like a barette, with ends that
fall to the waist
| The most astounding new hat is the
jockey hat, which has been brought out
in straw, with wreath of small flow
ers or a band of bright satin ribbon,
or merely a knot of cherries and
green leaves at the side. The envel
ope hat and the jaunty Robin Hood are
so much more attractive that they may
put the other one out of commission.
Large hats are as large as ever, but
they are not as popular as the small
ones. The turbans, poke bonnets, all
the Robin Hood varieties and the con-
tinental shapes take precedence over
the wide, faring hats
The latter is really a charming hat.
1t has the wide, upturned brim, with
the fiuted or pointed ends and trim
ming of ribbon bows of a cockade. 1t
comes in straw, faced with velvet or
satin.
There is also a dashing Columbine
hat, which is in brightly colored straw
with an unusually high brim, back ana
front, that turns fatty away from the
head and meets at the top. Between
the two brims there is a mass of fu-
chias or other small flowers. This
hat can only be worn by an excessive
| Iy smart woman, who knows how to
carry off conspicuous clothes.
The fireman's helmet, which has 10
brim, fits the head closely, is quite
high and has a ridge that extends from
the middle of the forehead to the middle
Of the neck It's trimming usually con-
sists of a broad band of velvet ribbon
at the base, with a narrower one in the
middle, to cut the height, and then a
fantasia of some sort at the side. This
may be in one color, or combination
of them.
The pansy hat is exceedingly pretty
1t is made of the flowers in their soft,
yellow and purple tones, placed on Il
purple turban and trimmed with up
standing loops of pansy purple velvet
ribbon.
1t is the fashion on all these hats
to use striped velvet ribbon, as well
as the plain; in truth, black and white
on silk, is quite the thing to put on
walking hats in every shape and in all
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