Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-12

ing to taste, but the variation is by no
means pronounced To be in style the
hat must be Of green. of a peculiar semi
olive shade. or at least of a greenish
tinge. Some there are that are smoke
colored tinged with green, while others
are of sort of green brown. None of
them Is anything like the green that
was SO fashionable for mems hats three
or four years ago. but they are distinctly
green. for all that
The band on these hats is unusually wide
and the bow rather short. with it's ends
sticking out instead of being fastened
on close to the sides. as used to be the
fashion. Nor Is this bow in the center Of
the hats side Instead it Is worn well
to the rear. All told. the hat is rather
a combination Of the ''common-sense'
styles that have become so truly COM
mon since the importation of English
Jauntiness Of the styles OF the merry
Alpines. The hat fits we'll down on the
mead. so securely that the wind hasn't
chance TN the world of blowing 1t off
ana should never under any circum-
stances be cooked on one side II should
De worn squarely in the center.
All or which makes it very attractive
from a standpoint of comfort it must be
admitted. but which. unhappily. fails to
add TO the attractiveness of ones appear
ance. Unhappily. also, the style is intend
ed essentially fror young men, for whom
1t is entirely too old. Indeed It can best
be described by saying that, barring the
color ana the rakish bow. 1t is just such
felt hat as old men wore about ten
years ago, another proof that STYLES
move In a circle.
Nevertheless. becoming or not thew are
the latest thing out" and thew are find.
Ing ready sale at from So up
The high silk hat is another article of
head gear. the style of which has rad
ically changed within the past few moons
though. strangely enough. the new
style In this particular instance has not
come to us from England, but from
France or, to be still more explicit. from
Paris. To the student Of fashion this is
little short Of astonishing. Paris. Of
course, has long been admitted the queen
city Of fashion as concerns the dress Of
the gentler sex. but mans attire for
decades upon decades has been under the
sovereignty of Londontown.
Nevertheless it is the Partisan silk hat
that Is the proper thing for those who
use that variety of headgear today. and
here, too. unhappily. the new style is
less graceful than the one it supplants
Whereas the old style followed. in greatly
an hour glass with the top and the bot
tom having same general circumference.
and with the sides of the cylinder con-
caving in at the CENTER a style spread
throughout the length and breadth Of the
land by the campaign cartoons Of former
President BENJAMIN Harrison. The new
style. on the other hand is very much
like the hat which the cartoonist Of to-
day invariably puts on the head or in the
hands of Frenchman. Instead of being
shaped like an hour glass. it is shaped
like the lower half of a cone. The cir
conference of the bottom is considerably
larger than that Of the top, and the
sides of the cylinder do not curve in az
they rise. but go straight up.
Thus far, the old style seems to have
been not only more graceful, but, 50 far