The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-07-16

A Sports Hat of Blue Tafeta, the
Woven "Rikisha" and Silk Sailor;
the "Chin Chin, the Jabot and the
Puritan Collar.
Their very oddity is the lure that
makes them popular. What matters
coat of tan if that hat is woven with
holes tie duplicate of the head-dress
of the man that pulls the jinrikisha in
Japan?
Even the woman who is conservative
with her dress and suit, casts wisdom
to the winds above the shoulGer-l line.
What lies above bespeaiss the true
woman who, in her heart of heart,
loves the fantasies Of fashion. The
demure Quaker and saucy "Ch.n Chin"
collars, the flappy hat and stiff-brim-
med sailor, even the plug h~t of silk
beaver fringe that Mrs. Vernon Castle
made famous at the races, appeal to
those of us who like something "dif-
ferent."
The mode breathes romance, and
romance is what fashion thrives on.
Every hat and every collar awakens a
memory or tells new tale. 1t is in
teresting to note that the Quaker col
lar has it's origin in the collar of mans
! costume. How scsrdalized the shades
of the old-time Quaker and The Puri-
tan must be to see their collars made
in frivolous organdy, Swiss and Gre
tonne! Jabots and frills come from
another period, when French courtiers
wore furbelows. In modern times,
Sara Bernhardt gives her famous
youth giving frill to the high collar;
while the faring half collars taat are
still shown-on dresses ana waists bark
back to portrait of Shelley. Nor is
the mode without humor; "Ch.1~Chin' y
collars, aimed at a giddy masquerade
costume have gone far of the mark and
appear on coats.
Past modes are drawn on for hats,
too. In an exclusive shop, just off the
Avenue, one of the girls of the young
er set ordered a garden hat the other
day of white chip, with pyramid of
pink roses-the exact duplicate of the
hat her great great grandmother wore
when she tripped across the lawns at
the Capitol. All these garden hats of
leghorn and Mi:sn recall the Colonial
days. Even the "rikisha", impcrte1
in spirit from Japan, smacks of this
style when trimmed with roses, the
black vanished cord of which it is
made contrasting with the light frocks
Broadly speaking the hats of the
season are divided into four classes;
those portrait-fashion garden hats
stiff -brimmed sailors that bespeak the
past or the present, according to the
materials and trimmings; the sport
hats, borrowed from the four corners
of the globe, and last, but not least
the coky> >turbans, which chow the mar
tial note in millinery.
The stiff -brimmed sailors are chal
ter in themselves. Already, the straw'
/, are on the wane. Chiffon 5rims W.
have tired of, and so the attention nat
urally turns to sailors of blue taffeta
black velvet and cretonne. America"
the white, leather-faced, blue taffeta
is a worthy emblem to the countr!
from which it takes its name. Whit
beaded wings for trimming brings t,
mind the speed Of Mercury; and tn,
glory Of ancient Rome Lies IN othe
trimming for other taffeta hats.
Black velvets, shiny and plushy a
cats fur, are embroidered with feec,
white wool, as wintry as possible +
shock the sun Of summer. Birds an,
animals in the wool crawl over tn
crowns, and the hrins are invariabl