Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-01
Allow Woman's Hair to Be Dis
played as Her Crown
ing Glory.
EXQUISITE MODELS SHOWN
IN THE SPRING OPENINGS
Attractive Designs Copied From
Paintings Which Have
Gained Prestige.
Spring has come,


Never mind the calendar. or the first
stilI under ground, For the Washington
stores are having their millinery open
ings of hemps, rnilans, chips, flowers
and plumes-all of them apotheosized
into ''the latest fashions''-which leaves
nothing to be said except that
Spring has come,
The seasons composite hat is to fit the
head and give the hair literal show
1t is shape to which the normal woman
of Washington-of America-of the whole
civilized world-should make her best
how For it permits her-at last-to own
sane-sized head.
Barbarities Can Be Laid Aside.
The tons of pompadour rolls, switches,
buns and other top-heavy barbarisms
required to fill the cavernous crowns that
have been swallowing feminine ears and
neck for the past two seasons may now
SO into Fashions waste basket. And
any woman with the average blessing of
hair may secure hat. small, sensible
and becoming, without feeling that she
is way behind the times
Also, the freak feather has gone into
cold storage with the long hat pin.
Feathers there are. and feathers and
feathers, but
They shoot skyward. back or front or
sideways; they are Of every color and
fantastic style: fluffy shaved or
stump-edged, but they do not fly tipsily
at the tangentS that have made them
tickling, scratching. eye-pokins weapons
of offense for the last two years.
Displays in the Shops.
Millinery displays in the ultra-fashion-
able stores throughout Washington's
shopping district are not only of inter
est to hat-buying women, old and young;
they possess. many of them, the pic
torial value of works of art. Paintings
from world-famous galleries have served
as models for some of the seasons
STYLES. The result is the really-truly
"Gainsborough,'' without the exagger-
ated brim and plumes that degenerated
into the merry widow of a few years
ago; a poke which combines piquancy
with demureness-thanks to French
artist who knew enough about pokes and
girls to get his painting in the Louvre
and "A fiat, daintily rose-wreathed and
of the leghorn type, worn by Eugene
in the Sirlish days when she was the
loveliest empress France has ever known.
Grandmother's Sleeping Cap. &.
The lace sleeping cap of our grandest-
Ereat-grandmother, which developed
itself into a theater bonnet and motor
hood a season or so ago, has now ex-
tended its vogue to street wear. One
fetching model in yesterdays opening at
a popular store was of white velvet cor
duroy, with jet Mercury wings flying up
was developed in black velvet brocade
threaded with silver. with side cabochons
of silver lace and rhinestones.
y striking small shape of Paris i'm
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pyramidal crown of golden tulle and
green ostrich plumes.
A Pretty Small Model.
Another model has small brim that
turns down over the right eye to flare
up on the left side, so as to show the
ear and hair. 1t is expressed in maize
satin and purple tulle. with small, stiff
clusters of purple and yellow pansies.
Satin Of every rich weave and color
serves for the newest styles in crowns
This liberty Of color makes it possible
for even plain face to look its best in
its most becoming shade A simple but
stylish hat for what women call every
day wear had its black taffeta crown
trimmed with black straw with an up
shoot of black feathers fore and aft Styl-
ish enough for an Easter parade and so
comfortable as to be adjusted with no
preparatory upbuilding of couture, it en-
bodied. sartorially and picturesauely.
every virtue that the average woman
could demand-which is saying a great
deal for a hat judging by the freaks
fashion has been giving us for 10, these
many days.
White Satin Effect.
soft. snug-fitting crown of white
satin, with a short, up-stcking row of
white feathers from the middle of the
forehead, over the top and down to the
hack of the neck, represents the new war
bonnet. which bears the name of a IA
nous Indian chief
For dressy evening wear, another now
city, the half-hat, is sheer delight for
Young woman with pretty hair. 1t con-
sists of two-inch band of white silver
frosted tulle that forms a fillet for the
head. On the right there is a stiff, up
standing plat of the tul.e graded, scallop
fashion, from brow to coil; the other side
showing merely the band and jewel
pinned hair
While there are many beautiful new va
riations of primitive colors, immediate
prestige must be awarded to church
purple"
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