The Washington herald., 1914-01-04
Fashions at the Capital
The We Dressed Woman OF Smart Society What She Wears
The Time and Place.
yMARGAREr WADE -

Z A careful survey Of fashionable fields
reaching in every direction forces the
conclusion claimed by the mffliners early
in the winter that 'the hats the thing"
this season. The most radical changes
! in the wardrobe of the well-dressed
women are undoubtedly in the matter
of headgear. We see and frequently
recognize smart-looking gowns made in
1872. which pass muster even in the most
exclusive drawing rooms, provided they
tre supplemented by 1914 millinery. Let
any one who doubts this rather surpris-
: ing statement experiment with some
handsome piece of millinery that has
been carefully tucked from the dust since
winter before last, when she will finn
herself a figure so out of the present.
day picture that a father or husband.
usually blind to detail, will be entirely
ready to pay the bill for new hat.
= To meet the demands of the occasion
hats IN every variety continue to be
imported, manufactured. and purchased.
even by an economically inclined woman
OF smart society, for no hat more than
three months old is suited to the pres
ent season, which demands complete
change of line to meet the change OF
coifture and to carry out the now accept
ed silhouette.
While hats for general wear. morning
or afternoon, are smaller than ever. there
has arrived a new variety OF restaurant
hat which is a happy compromise be-
tween the enormous picture shape, now
completely banished from polite society.
and the close turban-like affairs Of to-
day. This latest model, which is spon-
sored for afternoon occasions by such
smart matrons as Mrs. Woodbury. Blair.
Mrs Arthur Lee, Mrs. James w. Wads-
worth, jr., the latter formerly Miss Alice
Hay, who is passing the Christmas holi-
days with her mother, is an out-and-out
tam o. shanter with a much exaggerated
brim. It is made of black gauze. COM
bined with delicate touches of cut jet
and fur. The crown-and being a tam"
1t Is practically all crown-is unusually
large, but with the small headpiece show
ing the coiffure The great fullness is
gathered into fat center, also of gauze,
but no larger than the smallest coffee
saucer. The jet appears on the shallow
coronet, again about the little center
piece, and sometimes in the form of a
poised butterfly or in a small geometrical
design, or trails itself over the brinl. The
fur on some of the hats is introduced
about the center, and again appearing
on the coronet So carefully are these
hats made that while they appear Of uni
form circumference, the front is much
deeper than the back. The small hats, of
which every fashionable woman needs
half a dozen, have been Hkened to that
little girl who had little curl, right in
the middle of her forehead; when they
are good, they are very good. but when
they are bad they are horrid-'' Hats of
this character are very good indeed, or
decidedly horrid. The palmer and smaller
the good ones are the higher their price.
consequently there are no cheap small
hats worthy of polite consideration.
Those women who are calling for a
society for the advancement of sensible
dressing, Vet shrink from dressing sensi-
bly, until that almost forgotten art re-
ceiye the Endorsement of present-day
fashion leaders, may take heart and fol-
low the example of no less a parsonage
than the wife of the German Ambassador,
who is undoubtedly one of the best
gowned, as well as one of the most dis