Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-07-20
HATS AND HAIR
The Prevailing Styles in Ancient and
Medieval Times.

What shall We do with our hair and
Wherewithal shall we cover II? From
the earliest times on record these two
questions have been of vital interest to
men, as well as the women, and they
have been answered in innumerable
ways-mostly funny. looking back over
the centuries. as represented in book
OF historic costumes, one is impelled
to believe that people have ever striven.
not to make themselves lovely and at
attractive, but Ia add to the gayety of
nations by some new extravaganza in
dress or hats. Occasionally they have
lapsed into simple beauty for a season
but they have never stayed in that
foolish state. few years farther we
find a new horroh. no less wonder
fully conceived than the former one.
Take the wall paintings OF Egypt. our
earliest record Of the efforts OF men
and women in self adOrnment. Among
the working men the cOmmOnest head
covering seems to have been simple
cap. which reappears all the way down
the ages through Greece and Rome. to
become the modern headgear of the
Swiss Alps. and even to find itself at
home in central Illinois. where bought
its prototype from a small countryboy.
Il hate to give up that hat" he said
regretfully, AS he exchanged ii for the
new straw offered in its place. I've
worn IT, winter and summer. for five
years now"
He NAV well have worn II for five
years, and have inherited it. at that.
from his far off ancestors; for it is the
oldest style of hat on record. Never
having gone out" ii never appears
absurd, no matter where IL may be
found. Lokk. however, at the earliest
manifestations OF the Chanticlere hat.
as seen in ancient Egypt, and beside II
place the form somewhat allied to our
modren stovepipe. though greatly modi-
fled. II was not only in these later
years that we began to wear strange
CONNECTIONS on our heads.
Coming few centuries nearer to
modern times. we can find on the Greek
vases of about the third and fourth
centuries b. c. things that lock like
caricatures filched from the pages of
styles of today. at their worst. The
tiny Tanagra statuettes of this same
time present hat for our consideration
that cannot be beaten, if indeed il can
be equalled, by any Of the late vagaries
in headgear How the little lady ever
induces il to stand so far off her
hair Is a mystery, but probably she
wears underneath II "bandeau"
shaped like an inverted milk pan OF
small girth and ample depth. Hatpins
she must have had. also. Did they, in
that age, cause the mental upheaval OF
the masculine half of humanity that
the hatpins of today have caused?
In the Greek reliefs we find also the
recurrent cap Of the Illinois laddie. and
the simple kerchief wound about the
heads Of girls; and. in the case of the
warriors. marvellous efforts to he fright
full in strangely shaped and strangely
wrought helmets. which. with the
shields. seem to have been about the
only clothing worn in the primitive
battles, If one may trust the statues of
the times
Rome followed the fashions Of Greece
as we do today of Paris; only Rome
spoiled most that she borrowed by over
celebrating 1t. Her hairdressing. her
hats. caps and helmets were almost the
same as her elder sister wore.
The middle ages saw some new and
wonderful inventions. which have never
been surpassed for absurdity. and rare