The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-03-19
SENSIBLE SHAPES LIN HATS
No More Dish Pan Effects or
Inverted Peach Baskets
For the Ladies.
Many Hundred Women Attended the
Spring Millinery Openings Today.
The NIillincrs Have Visited the
Large Cities and Are Showing an
Immense Line OF Latest Ideas In
Hats.

II was not heralded with the beat
ing of drums or the blare of trumpets'
L was announced in the newspapers
by word and picture and when the day
arrived the lady Of the house combed
her hair in the most becoming fashion
and postponed baking or sweeping un-
ti the next day. 1t is this gentlemen,
the women all know iD it is opening
day IN the millinery shops.
What ducks of ctapeaux! What
wonderful hats! The interior of the
shops are converted for the occasion
into reception rooms where, as each
woman strols in, she finds her best
friend, her next door neighhor and all
feminine relations They are chat
ting and talking in true party fashion.
admiring the hats and each other and
enjoying themselves immensely.
What the men miss, girls, lal la! It's
worth effecting tight skirts and wear
ing false hair. Here's what it sounds
like q tell tale says;i fI..n
Greetings, everybody. Isn't this a
lovely day? oh girls, that hat, and
that one Wait till get my hat off,
quick! My hair looks a fright. Isn't
IL the limit! Here let me put II on.
oh, so they're stick ups this year,
there are lot OF them on that one,
Il looks like steamboat. Let me see
that one with the garden effect. 1t re-
minds me of an Italian villa. Too
cunning, though and so smart.
"Oh, look at that one, well now
isn't that the last word. Let me try
II on. Oh! There Mrs. Blank has It,.
IN bet she'll just about buy 1t. 1t
hooks Just like her, don't you think.
III have II copied, you could do II
for me couldn't you:
"Yos, that one is n dream. Tell
me now honestly, do you think 1t Is
quite so becoming as that derby chip?
The braid is such peculiar shade
on this. ] guess its changeable, isn't
Il? 1t makes me feel cross eyed For
goodness sake. That is the prettiest
one yet. Wait Just minute. I'll
run over and get my husband, he has
the grandest taste dnd ! wouldn't
dream Of buying n hat without him.
You try them on while Pm gone so no
body else viii get them"
Is IT, fun? Well 1 should say. CAL
Ions OF II and they stroll about from
one shop to the next trying them on
and by Easter Sunday the artistic
things are adornlng the tops of hun
dreds OF becoming and contended
smiles.
A very "springy" day inaugurated
tempted dozens of women 10 the down
town region during the morning hours.
The Marion shops never presented a
smarter array Of hats and the adorn-
ments and decorations or the windows
and cases are most attractive.
The spring hats are exceedingly good
They are wearable and sensible In
shape and size The dish pan shapes
and inverted basket effects seem to
have become obsolete ard have given
place to very charming shapes straight
and slightly rolled brims and pretty
crowns OF reasonable size They are
not over or profusely trimmed, but
hoast the usual stick up" which
means in many instances dainty
fcathery ornament which is the sin
gle adornment or smart aigrette or
loop of ribbon.
The sailors are very excellent. Some
of them, accompanied by the trade
mark OF the best known manufacturers
are quite high in price but there are
others very reasonable and becom-
ing.
The mi'liners Of the city have Wis
tied many of the large cities and have
brought back to Marion the best pos
sible ideas To work up into the pretty
bonnets. There are a great variety
and surely enough to please the most
aesthetic sense OF all.