The Washington herald., 1914-02-28
THE SPRING HAT Is
SMART AND SAUCY
1t Has Much Character. independence
and a Great Deal of
Personality.

Pert and saucy, set on the head al
| what seems perilous angle, and soaring
aloft with a recklessness quite out OF
proportion to its circumference, the spring
hat Is smart and chic and fascinating.
1t has character and independence. II
has personality. Whether II Is a round
little boXlike affair with a closely clipped
pompon at each side OF the crown, or
whether ii is shaped like the PROV OF
some phantom ship, with bristling feath-
ers rising excitedly from an ornate and
unique figurehead, it never fails to have
certain well defined distinction which
commands attention and arrests criticism
without close acquaintance.
1t is optimistic. 1t Is ambitious. II IS
daring-but not without a certain air OF
sureness. 1t is small. but il has the look
OF being adequate. 1t will undoubtedly
be ridiculed and caricatured. but one has
the idea that when all is said and done.
1t has lost none of the charm which is
its chief asset.
No Large Hats.
Later there may be large hats which
will protect the face from the glare of
the sun. They have not made their ap-
pearance up to date. Nor have the mod
els of the moment any capacity for en-
largement. II will be quite impossible
to say of these large hats when they ap-
spring, only larger"
The spring hats are complete as they
are. wider brim would spoil them ut
terly. A higher trimming-imaginatio re-
fuses to take any such fights,
Surely more than their predecessors the
hats Of the early spring emphasize this
as the "Air Age" There Is something
in their poise, their outlines. their trim
ming. which at once suggests not only
fha daeirn IN fy- hYff ha - h.
air.
As a rule II Is safe to say all the hats
will be high. They are much higher than
those OF the winter, and high in a Diff
ferent way. They have not only the
high trimming. which We have worn dur
ing the last season. but they have the
soaring side brim which gives them an
entirely new effect and additional smart
ness.
The height has not the look of being
merely stuck on, it is a component part
Of the hat itself. Perhaps this height Is
the most definite style tendency of the
spring. But there is also the angle, not
alone at which the hat is worn but the
angle Of the hat itself.
II is the way the hat Is set on the
head that makes of II something quite
distinct. Some of the hats are set down
over the eyes,. so close one fears the
slightest jar would send the brim down
to rest on the bridge of the nose. Others
ut Just as snugly. but with a slant up
ward at one side. which allows the little
love curls OF the newest coiffure to be
seen.
Others seem to be .perched almost on
one ear. And even when they are set
squarely on the head the slope of the
brim would have one believe otherwise.
Its New Individuality.
II is this angle and this flare, both in
describable because there Is nothing in
the past with which to compare. them,
that makes the spring hat what 1t Is.
Moreover, there Is not the least SEM
blance OF system in the angle or the
trimming. Sometimes the height will be
given by a stiff bunch OF ribbon or feath-
ers rising directly in front on line with
The ncSe. In that case there will be a tips
tilt to the brim and you will have 10 view
II from more than one side and give 1t
more than cursory attention to find just
where the slant comes.