New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-09-23
SEEN IN THE SHOPS.

While great many of New Ulm's fair
sex have already found the delight of
their eyes and the despair Of their pocket
books in some one of the local millinery
shops, there are still number who have
not chosen what they are going to have
this season to top off their winter
costumes. There has been rage of the
black and white small hat, with the tip
tilted brim, but that has gone the way
of all ''rages" and now the black hat holds
sway. Shortly, however, the colors
will be coming into favor again, already
| some of the smart hats showing combi-
nations of pink and black that are most
charming.
AS rule this season, the hats are
simple and practical as compared with
the Frenchy nothings that we have been
accustomed to seeing on opening days.
It is quite noticeable that the French
designs are lacking in this time of War,
and while many of the American designs
are beautiful they certainly are lacking
in certain something that meant
'style"
A great deal of steei, gold and silver
lace is in vogue. Flowers are much used
also and feathers are very good if only
they are "fussed up so that they do not
by any possible chance reveal what their
original state may have been. Spikey,
skimpy effects are popular rather than
the heavy flowing ostrich plumes of
former years. No, indeed, that does not
mean that you pay according to the size.
1t took big plume to make the small
spike that is now so fashionable and you
pay for what went into the making of the
adornment, not what it was when it
emerged from the process of burning or
scraping or twisting, or whatever may
have been done to it to torture it into
the strange shapes used. The garniture
OF the hats goes on almost wholly in front.
In shapes, there is not a great deal of
variety, The "Bias Sailor" is one of the
newest shapes, the greatest length of the
brim being Northwest to Southeast of
the crown. These brims are perfectly
flat with few exceptions and mostly OF
dark velvet, often with some metallic
lace encircling them.
At Mrs. Pfeferle's was hat of royal
purple velvet with square Tam crown
and plain, round, medium brim of purple !
and green maline. Three large velvet |
poppies in shades of purple, golden and
green were placed at equal intervals on
the top of the brim. In the same shop |
was young girls hat of Virgin Blue !
velvet, crown and brim both round and
of medium size. A gold lace band and
three small roses combined with two
ermine tips completed this plain little |
hat and yet it was as lavishly decorated !
as most are this season.
At the New Ulm Millinery Parlors
was one of the small, round black hats |
with it's high crown Of black feathers,
overlapping like fish scales. An ex-
ceedingiy tall, white French ostrich spike
trimmed it in 'front.' Nothing more.
These small hats with narrow brims are
worn tilted to sharp angle over the side
sailor was shown with a pink velvet
high fancy pink ostrich stickup.
At. Mrs. Follmann's were shown some
of the large black picture hats which will |
later be worn for dress occasions. These |
hats are also of velvet and the. garniture
is of plumes. Mrs. Follmann was also
showing some of the military hats, the
"Tricorn Hat, one of them being deco
rated with silver burnt ostrich stickups.
These burnt ostrich feathers are about
the newest trimming seen here and really
are very beautiful. They come in all
the metallic shades and are made by
burning away all the tiny feathery parts
of the plume, leaving only the skeleton
which is FURNISHED by some process that
produces the metallic effect together
with the waving, feathery ightness Of
plume. A hat in the "nigger brown
as seal brown is called this year was
trimmed with some of these feathers in
bronze and bow Of ribbon edged with
gold.