The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1913-04-08
VIVID
CoIors On The New Hats
For Spring

There are any number OF made hats
to buy this season; in fact, the ma
jority are fashioned from plateaus of
straw, with addition OF chiffon and
lace, These made hats offer an excel.
lent opportunity for the development Of
original ideas, and 1t is therefore pos.
sible to procure hats built expressly
for the individual. The draped crowns
are fashioned from various kinds Of
materials. soft broche fabrics, crepe
de chine, cretonne. satine. linen, pique
lin fact, any material one may de-
sire to have used on the hat.
There is certain reasonableness in
the new hats which at once strikes the
customer The freakish styles have
been banished, and in their places
there IL an array Of really likeable and
wearable hats. These hats sit square,
ly on the head, and one can see q
friend q few yards distant, instead OF
being compelled to peep under brim
which completely envelops the wear
er. The hair is permitted to show It.
self, and thus add softening frame to
the face, and the crown of the hat Ia
directly over the crown Of the head.
The wearer gives to the hat the lit
tie individual touches as she adjusts
II.
There are women who can make al
most any hat becoming by the way
they wear 1t, while other women new
er seem to place the hat the right
angle. This knack Of adjusting hat
is born In some women, while others
must acquire 1t, but It is well worth
striving for, even II the results al.
ways look studied. IT is particularly
to be desired this season, for the style
of many of the new hats depends large
ly on the angle at which they are ad-
justed
1t is whispered that there is to be
a scarcity of straw this spring, and
the limited amount appearing now on
many hats seems to justify the rumor;
but It has little or nothing to do with
the case, for the early spring hats are
combined with velvet and
other more or less wintry fabrics, 80
that the transition to the spring hat
may nuot be too sudden to be bridged
during the winter months.
The importance of having an appro-
pirate hat is often forgotten at this
season OF the year. Women will pur-
chase as their first spring hat one Of
the tailored type, which Is only cor
rect for the morning or to accompany
the tailored walking costume; yet they
will wear this same hat to the theater
with an elaborate gown because 1t is
new and up to date! Better by far to
wear the dressy afternoon hat Of the
winter or. better still. to omit the hat,
than to make the mistake of wearing
a simple street hat with semi-evening |
dress. There are attractive cap-like
hats OF malines, edged with tiny pink
roses. nesting among the green foliage
and trimmed directly in the front with
two quilts Of the same flowers, tied
with black velvet ribbon, which are
springlike and yet in good
taste for the theater.
So many vivid colors are combined
on the new hats that many women will
be led as.ray in their choice If care is
not taken. There are some neutral
shades, such as sand, putty, beige, the
natural straw color, taupe and some OF
the browns and darker blues that can
be worn with costumes of almost any
hue, quite as successfully as black,
but the radiant, glowing purples and
reds and green's must not be selected
at random. There is one advantage
In q brilliant purple or green which
few women take into consideration.
and that Is the fact that Q hat Of either
Of these colors makes the face look
smaller.