The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-06

HENEVERi I hear men talking,
 MAI in their naive and fatuous way,
 '" of the absurdity of women's
 fashions. I wonder what on earth they would say if they saw pie lures of some of the Fashions" we don't wear-models that milliners seem to put on the market as if to find out just how ridiculous women are willing to make themselves! l have just been looking at some that surely seem to be the continuation of q debauch of the bizarre. Hats that
 bafie conjecture-unless they are in tended to represent Frenchman's l idea of an American skyscraper-hats that should excite a historians ad- miration for their fidelity to mediaeval designs, hats that seem out of place anywhere save in 8 Poe nightmare. But--a point for which no man ever gives us credit-nowhere did see these freakish models actually on a woman's head, unless, indeed, she were paid to wear 1t. Furthermore, this grotesque headgear will not be worn, except, perhaps, by a minority of foolish women, who from choice or necessity, maFe themselves con- spicuous. Moreover, there is such a variety of models shown that clever q WOu8u Cdu WedE dliuOSI any hiAO VI hat that becomes her without being unfashionable.
 Height the Prevailing Note.
 Height, it is true, Is the dominant Characteristic in headgear. This is the chief feature that distinguishes au- tumn styles from those of the spring. Some crowns run I'D to point. I noticed one in particular that was for { all the world like the hats worn in the Fourteenth century. Feathers tower sup like pyramids The soft, Charlotte !Corday crown will still be popular, but broader and higher.
 The head-size is distinctly lesSened. The hat, though resting firmly and low on the head, does not eclipse the neck, as has been a fashion for months past. In either small or large hats there is a new treatment of the brims-an upward curving point Of the front of the brim-that is perhaps : the most decided innovation of any. This feature, seen in both picture hats and small brimmed ones, is piquant and, as rule. very becoming, show : ing something of the forehead and brow of the wearer. Hats of this style have very decided slope downward : on the sides.
 Ones eye is also immediately i'm pressed with the extended line on the left in many instances almost freak- ish in contour. There is a tremendous extension at the left side, out toward the back One sees picture hats, for distance, that at the front have a b-in that balances on either side, but as the line goes around toward the hack. 1t springs out tremendously i'll ei.her point or a curve.
 Less Exaggeration.
 Prims that turn up against the crown arc always fashioned in this wise. and many times when looking = . hat face to face, it seems to be q small one close fitting against the | cad giving the effect almost of Louis XI cap. but as the wearer turns ! in profile, the great swoop upward :aad outward quite takes ones breath away. Crowns. as a general thing. Fa-e very siZeable, and one sees al- most every shape-round. square, pointed, or of the Charlotte. Corday ffaShinn. The mushroom contour is lstill decidedly in evidence, and model | after model has the down-drooping lb-im. although, as I have said, the position of the hat is not an ex- 'tinguishing one.
 The brim does not always droop. Occasionally it rolls up sharply against the crown on one side or turns up for a couple of inches around its edge,