The Washington times., 1911-01-11
GIRLS ABLE To MAKE
OWN EVENING HATS
Odd Bits of Laces and Rib
bons Useful for This
Purpose.
DEBUTANTES FORM
CLUB AND SUCCEED
Domestic Chapeaus Best Suited
to the American
Girl.
By FRANCES CARROLL.
. ASHTON is simply history repeat
. ing itself. A country, therefore,
with no royal history, no MEM


- ing itself. A country, therefore,
with no royal history, no MEM
cries Of magnificent courts, with
their attendant splendors of dress, has
little chance of success as a maker Of
fashions. This at least has been the
dominating note in the protest OF Euro
pean countries against any effort on the
part OF our comparatively young nation
to make fashions for her women.
Since the fashion makers of Paris en-
ploy all that is graceful and lovely in
the styles of many courts of other days,
adopting what is good and avoiding
what is ungraceful and unbeautiful.
America cannot deny that she has the
advantage but at the same time purely
American fashions have been underta-
ken by the Ladies' Home Journal and
successfully accomplished, a proof of
which is demonstrated in the group of
evening hats for the young woman re-
produced on this page today from their
Christmas number.
That the American artist is capable of
Designing other feminine attire on pure
ly American lines, drawing only from
American history, also has been demon
strated-
Well Suited
TO Americans
Il would be impossible to find a group
Of hats OF foreign design so well suited
70 the fresh, animated face of the
American girl as in these illustrations.
The evening hat is so styled because
of its suitableness for dress occasions.
theater and formal afternoon wear. In
choosing it, a thought should be given
to the colors as they will look under
artificial light.
The girl who is clever and thoughtful
caves odd bits of laces and ribbons, as
well as all other trimmings, and utilizes
them in making her own hats-particu-
larry her evening hats.
A little group of friendly debutantes of
whom I know have formed a millinery
club. At first they had a certain young
milliner in Washington come in once in
a while and instruct them for an hour
IN the art of hat making. after which
they went on alone fashioning their own
hats, with only the general criticism of
the Club as a guide.
Chapeau for
Every Gown.
AS a consequence of this little scheme
this circle Of girls has become noted.
Each young lady owns a chapeau for
every gown, the whole outfit having |
cost her no more than two hats might
have cost in some fashionable hat shop. |
We paw more, and get less, in the hats
we buy than any other feminine neces- |
sity. And It isn't all the milliners' fault, |
either. for styles change with each sea- |
son. and she must make Up in profit on !
the hats she sells for those which she |
does not sell this season, for they must |
be laid aside when newer styles prevail |
another year.
The buyer must therefore paw for the |
hats that will not be sold, which makes |
the cost of millinery out of all proper |
ton 20 the material used.
1t Is for this reason that every woman |
should learn enough of hat making to
enable her to twist and turn a few trim
snings here and bend hat frame there |
in the fashiOning Of her own headgear.
Given good taste to start with, any
woman who Is clever with her needle .
can follow the composition of pictured
hat model, reproducing it for herself at !
one-tenth the cost that she could have
II reproduced in hat shop.