The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-01
FEATURES 0M SUMMER MILLINERY
'RoNNS HIGHER EVT SMALLER THAN LAST St.NSON-Tul
Roll. O n THE BHIM DETERMINES THE CHARACTER
OF THE IJ\T-NAIIRAL FLOWER ARR lNCEMINTs.

There is almost as great a difference
between spring and midsummer hats
as There is between winter and spring
mats. Whereas the carly pring chap
can is trlg and trim. rminently correct,
yet a thought dashing and gay as be-
hts tho spring season: tho summer
hat is first. last and always pictures
'iuc. Grace is it chief requirement,
though in general lines and manner of
trimming it must conform to covered
r"Ii"ns of modisaness. And never
W'r" midsummer hats more charming
than this seasons models. The mil
liners, having gotten TN" smart. jaun,y
and sometimes rather pert spring hats
oft their hands and ont of their win
d"ws. seem to vieing with each other
i" sec who can produce the most
II idsulnmer models. shapes neither
Tar off the face. nor tlroop despon-
IDENTIFY toward the shoulders. and the
"moNcm"nt' of tho hrim Gas the mil
III rr phrases IT'D melts so subtly into
IL" slope Of tho crown that II is hard
L" tell where me cnds and the other
h' gins. Almost every hrim has a
smucy bit of a roll and this upward
roll of the brim seems to enlivcn all
millinery and give q dash and chic
Hat is cheering after several seasons
of cclipsing mushroom shapes.
Taffeta is enormously used on the
midsummer hats. Brims are faced
With it. crowns arc covered with it.
ff wcrs arc made OF il and huge bows
of it sweep alntt and backward. OF
course when II says "taffeta" now,
ore means the lnstrons chameleon sort
that is as soft as chiffon and has a
Wondrous prismatic color effect that
h"witchcs tho eye. Almost any deft-
fingered con accomplish the
usually difficult feat of facing n hat
hrim now: for the taffeta facinss arc
shirrcd over cord and il is the simplest
Thing in the world to sew one of these
corded facinSs under q hat. Some
times several cords arc run in, maxi
in2 "a facing that is very rich and Of
fcctive on a simply trimmed shape.
Sometimes the taffcta facing and "a
draDed taffeta crown are all the trim
ming one sees. For example. a wide
brimmed hat of blue milan has an up
curling brim faced with shirred taft
feta in shot blue and tan coloring: the
SHRED facing being set about an inch
ccnical crown is dragged q handker-
chief square Of the shot taffeta. the
folds being concealed at one side un-
der a big cravat bow of the taffeta,
laid in pleats. At the other side of
the hat the crown drapery is drawn
TO the edge of the brim and knOtted,
kerchief-wise, the knot dropping over
the brim.
The tam rowns SO fashionable in
Paris early in the season. have been
taken up enthusiastically by younger
women; hut these hats, in order to
be smart. must be set on the head at
ii rakish angle. which is apt to be dis
astrOus over middle aged faces. The
tam hat. made of finest straw-as
these hats must be 10 he dragged
over the head in smart styles
very little: indeed, the tam
hat in itself usually costs so much that
1t seems a pity to it up with
trimming. Some Of these models. I'M
trimmed. range mp to twenty dollars.
and even the least expensive rise
above the nve-1ollar mark. \ tall,
icrt feather. pompon. 81 corade. at
"ne side. rear the front. Is USUALLY the
81 ly ornament used.
Feathers are seen un y great nany
vi tho hsndsomer summer models.
the sort OF hats that will accompany
s#1den party and castro frocks, or be