Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-15
In the Land of Fashion.
By Anne Rittenhouse.

A man is pleased even if a woman is
not, when the word goes cut that small
hats will be in fashion. Nobody has
reason to doubt the psychology of a mans
hatred against large hats, unless the
answer is found in the fact that he is
fundamentally selfish and large hats an
nov him. He can talk against them al
most as much as he can talk against the
political party that is not his. They
raise in him spirit of resentment that
even the prettiest woman cannot assuage.
Next to large hats he hates hatpins.
but in this feeling he is entirely Justlheo.
There should be law against them in
their present state. 1t is a wonder tnat
women don't do as much damage in
public with these instruments of dress as
the automobiles are doing at present In
the streets Not only are they danger
Gus to the public. but the doctors have
now found that they are dangerous 10 the
woman who wears them There is IL GER
tain trouble with the glands at the BACK
of the neck of which women often com
plain that is due. SO some physicians say
to the reckless way in which women put
in their hatpins. Tney stab their scaips
daily and pay no attention to the tiny
wounds ana II is liiS Stopoihs, .i4eA'
causes that trouble in the neck. This is
an entirely new phase of the hatpln
problem that is not well known. and IT
alone should put hatpins out or comms.
sion, or make women more cdreIul VI
their length and sharpness
But this is not a talk on health, put OH
fashion although doctors do not place d
wide gulf of difference between the Two.
Judging from the showing or new spilhS
hats which the millinerS arc offering Tor
will rule They are comfortable because
they are light in weight. DO not puck
against the wind, cover the halr ana are
especially smart with the costume Oh tie
day 1t would be d good rule FOR women
to wear small hats with coat SUITS, ana
ALWAYS in the streets, and II they DO wear
large ones to keep them FOR mouse anaifs
The motor is responsible for the brlm-
less hat, and when women Iouhu us WI Toi,.
venience they made it their own. They
more than the millinerS have enforced
the small hat fashion. althouSh the
milliners should be enchanted at the OPP
portunity to get the same amount OF
money for a small cap without particle
of trimming that they did for large
picture hat with splendid feathers ana
buckles. You have probably noticed mat
prices have not gone down merely ne
cause the material has become scanty:
The hat that takes over three yards OF
velvet or plush and one that takes on.y
a quarter of a yard are both offered at
the same prices as in other days when
materials were laviShly used. 1t would
not be possible for any miliner to reason
out why she asks $50 for pages cap
of plush trimmed with a cord of velvet.
nor why she should get $50 for d motor
cap of corded stuff with two mercury
wings of the material. However. no
one is so senselesS these days as to put
the cost of anything on the material used.
1t is vaguely put down to the high cost
of living, which, like charity, covers
multitude of sins.
There is nothing radically about
the hats for the south, which are always
forerunners of what is to be worn when
summer weather comes to the north.
Although 1t was rumored that the PLAIN
hat would go out and the trimmed hat
return to fashion there is no evidence
of it at present-the milliners may have
this card up their sleeves. 1t is to be
doubted whether the We'll dressed woman
will change her style. 1t Is all in her
hands, far as her own set goes. but
there hosts of women who have al
ways regarded the plain hat with sus
picion. 1t might be claimed that the ma
jority feel more satisfied in hat COW
cred with ornaments of some kind. They
feel that it is more becoming and that
they get more for their money The
plain hat had hard fight to get to the
front. and there were times when its
prestige was threatened by the amazing
number of velour caps that women
| Haunted on their heads from ocean to
ocean.
Satin will play an important part again.
America will see more of those very
smart plain white satin sailors with the
black brush at the side that took Paris
by storm last autumn. They are not as
perishable as the economical woman
thinks. They may be cleaned in a jiffy
with French chalk or any of the liquids
in use One must be careful to put the
hatpins in the same place. as satin
marks easily and the steel pin makes "A
black mark wherever II comes. but bar
ring this the hat is an admirable adj
junct to a spring and summer wardrobe.