The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-19
FLOWERS
The Summer Trimming in Pa
 risian Millinery

Previous ladvices from Paris indi- cated that several leading firms were showing certain shapes with their crowns entirely covered with roses that had the appearance of having been crushed flat. This proved the starting point of the revival. Once flowers of sort had obtained notice the prospect took on another aspect. In the course of a week or so other novelties in less questionable taste cropped up; huge pink and red roses (not the same as those last year, but with long loose petals like Sover-blOwn peonies), single anemones and poppies. and foliage of different sort to match the shot taffetas, lilies-of- the valley and other small blossoms, dyed vivid reds and blues globe roses and van- unculas in tri-color arrangements. These were followed by flowers more closely studied from nature, besides roses of different kinds, and lilacs, double stocks, primroses and a varied selection of small flowerets. THE RIVALRY BETWEEN FLOW
 FRS AND FEATHERS IN PARI-
 SIAN MILLINERY
 It is difficult to say as yet how far flowers will enter into rivalry with plumage and other trimmings for the midsummer millinery, but at any rate they are taking hold again for Spring wear.
 One of the many purposes to which they are put is for high-crown hats with little Or no brim. For these they provide a complete covering, Sd that if it were not for the little as we'll not be in straw at all.
 Some of these look like a bit of garden bed transplanted in full bloom to a female head. Small flowers such as are used for the bordering of portieres, generally rather low in tone, intermixed with good deal of dull green, compose a foundation from out of winch emerge 1umpy branches of double stock and branches Of rOse- bush or hollyhock.
 Flowers dyed all blue or all red, as we'll as tiny globe roses, often in down in regular order on polos, and other brimless hats in tagal or crinol a tall bow of ribbon or a wing some- times shooting up from the top.
 FANCY FEATHER PLAQUES
 PREVALENT IN PARIS
 For the present, however, a still greater fancy is the polo covered with gummed feathers, not gummed to the shape but to muslin These sheaths of gummed feathers are pro- vided ready for use in white, scarlet flamingo red, delft blue in quite light shades. and also in glace shades (sky blue and rose, pink and mauve,) with a pair of wings attached. These are made up of the same plumage, and one is fastened at each side over the ear, generally with the tip turned down on the right and upward on the left.
 The same sheaths serve for the cov- ering of crowns, and the same wings single or in couples-for fastening against the up-turned brims of large hats But methods of trimming are best described along with the shapes they adorn.
 FACIAL LEADING IN MATERIAL
 FOR THE PARIS HAT
 Tagals continue to occupy the first rank, especially for broad-brimmed hats Sometimes the braids are re- maille, that is to say, joined by her. ring bone stitch. but certainly the fine sewn braids have the preference. In white these are immensely used. the brims either entirely faced with black velvet or merely three-quarters. The most approved trimming for such a hat is a bushy aigrette of white crosse Or goura, when the effect is improved by a narrow fold of velvet around the crown, but flowers are also used. A very large one with the brim curving slightly downwards at