The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-19

~ Omh Dleak feDTudTy Gay, ABOUT
four weeks from now, you will
~ meet on Fifth Avenue a crisp
- and chic new straw hat pro-
claiming by a subtle difference IN
shape and trimming It's nineteen thir-
teenness. Then you will realize that,
bartorially. 1t Is spring and what
though your head may be bent TO
meet the biting blasts, and your nip
ped fingers may be hugged together
within your muff, and your boots may
cuddle In blanket of slush, 1t will
be borne in upon you, past dispute,
that spring has come and the fasci-
pating. II a trife worrisome. consider
htion Of another set of new clothes Is
pnce more imminent.
New York begins to wear straw hats
Hery enthusiastically early one must
admit. for snowbound streets and
penetrating north winds seem to have
nothing to do with the matter at all.
l The milliners contend that women will
'have new millinery with the beginning
bf Lent: that winter wearables have
palfed, social interests have failed and
there must be something absorbing to
lake up the feminine mind-and what
more psychological moment could
there be for introducing the spring
hatl But 1t Is really the milliners-
Ind behind them the manufacturers
who are to blame for this unseason-
Able condition of things. For purely
commercial purposes trade is hurried
ahead; new styles are brought from
Paris; new and tempting hats are dis
played in the shops, openings take
place while the sleet is still rattling
HE window panes, and-more than
Ill this, early in January emerges
from cover the lovely Southland mil
hnery, whetting the appetite of fem
mine fancy for millinery feasts to
come.
The Oriental Color Influence Notable.
Toned down hues will prevail in
the spring millinery, and though
brilliant shades, like red, yellow and
orange are very much to the fore,
+ these shades have been subdued to a
marvellous softness and richness and
ire as far removed from crude reds
Ind yellows in their primary value as
the red and yellow colors of the Span
ish fiag-say--are removed from the
same warm shades in a bit of rich
velvet or brocade.
All the new millinery colors have a
ptrohg Oriental trend and scarce one
butt will be called by two or three
different color-names by different in
aividuals, so softly and elusively are
tints blended. For example, clear
\ peach pink is not half as modish as
ADhrimp pink; gray blue and violet blue
IRE preferable to honest, blue blue;
Md reddish violet shades will be more
fashionable than the pure parma vio-
let tones. Eminence purple is just
how what milliners call the "high
tolor note" in New York. This color
b the strong. bright purple shade
worn in vestments of priests in the
Catholic church 1t is too strong a
eolor to be used generously in cos
tume but a very little of it Is ex-
iremely effective. Madame Simone in
her play this season, wears with a
gown of white and silver embroidery,
draped sash of Eminence purple
blk; and so individual and effective
Is the style that undoubtedly this
costume has started the craze for the
fgivid purple shade. The straw turban
with two upright ostrich tips has "a
louch of this Eminence purple shade
In the ribbon strap and rosettes at the
a front The feathers are black and
( the hat Is mixed straw model in
sblack and violet tones. The shape
Is new one and shows the modish
urban line for spring-somewhat
lSlongated from front to back and ris-
ing rather high at the front. The