The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-15
Novelty In Braids -'.-- And Shapes In
 Partisan Millinery
appears that Paris has been ac-

Mt appears that Paris has been ac- cused of not being quite up to the mark in the way of novelties lately, but feel assured that your buyers will have no reason to complain of any lack of novelty in the Spring sufficient to silence all cayiling of this sort And there is a great deal else besides, as I hope to be able to convince your readers.
 However. the straws deserve first notice. It is not only that they pre- sent unusual variety in kinds, plaits, combinations of colors, and that those who produce ready-made shapes and to greater extent millin- CTS who make their own-have devis- and combining them. There is some thing more than this. The most inn portant feature of all is the excess sive pliability that has been reached in so many kinds, both in braids and straw tissues and which is also ex-
 In tagal. which unquestionably holds the first place among straws this Season, such pliability Is joined to firmness and sprineipess. You may grip the crown of one of the new tagal hats and immediately your hand is removed it re-assumes its shape. And it is the same with some of those in hair. ToQues made up of fine hair braids sewn into an oval pocket shape pressed into flutes are tumbling will put out of gear.
 Moreover. a large proportion of the other straw braids in use are beauti- fully soft and pliant, and some per- fectly limp. It will be new exper- fence for your importers to be able in faiilasson or chip in a box that would not formerly have held a doz- en or two. Even though they may not actually fold fiat as many do, they are often as easily packed as Pana- mas, point in their favor.
 It may be readily understood to what an extent this change in the na- turs of straw plaits is influencing styles, those of toQues more especial ly, which take upon them, by ree- son of it, an effect more nearly al- lied to toques of material as fur, than they have ever yet borne. They are, and they look, soft, wires being used very sparingly and many having none This likeness is further accentuated by the use of two different colored straws. one for the wide band at the base or the facing of a turned-up brim, and another for the crown shaped like Parisian cap, flat topped cake mould, draped turban or helmet form.
 The likeness is further enhanced
  For toques and caps suitable for morning wear this is simply accom- plished by sewing in broad braids of white or red into blue or black, such being generally trimmed with "ears" or "quills" made up of the two.
 But a smarter style is to belt round with a single band of braid three or four inches wide, or to enclose still higher Cat least on one side) by a straight up brim of one-half inch wide braid all of one color or of two colors placed alternately.
 The braids mostly used for all these purposes are of a closely woven sort, often with matte or granite effects, sometimes dull, sometimes with a satin sheen. But others are pressed into the service. Thus boat shaped draped toque built up of ce- rise hair braids has brim of black tagal, while a toque of the helmet species consists of a full crown of white hair tissue chine with waved lines of black and a visor Cor bonnet front) of rice braids in two shades of silver gray. The first of these is is trimmed with a cordon of twig red bell flowers sewn round the edge of the aigrette at the back of the crown. The Millinery Trade Review.