The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-11
Wide Brimmed Sailor Is Epidemic,
but Its Color and Trimming Rest
on the Caprice of the Wearer

Brigid anemones and innumerable
others.
The lilies are often very beautiful
water lilies in white or delicate pink,
| speciosum lilies in white or in white
family fiecked with pink. pale yellow
lilies, like the familiar lemon iilies-all
Of these are offered. and though they
call for clever handling and are less
easily posed than most Of the large
flowers they give stunning effects.
A ease in point was the hat sketched
in our central group with wide brim
OF erin. dropping a little on front n
back. and with It's low crown literally
hidden by lilies. which, in turn, were
yelled by tulle.
This notion Of covering a low crown
with flowers and then draping tulle
lightly over all opens the way to many
attractive effects.
A big hat Of purple erin, for KAN
pie. has its crown covered with flaming
red peoples. over which purple tulle
was hoped: and though the thing
sounds fiamboyant. the purple and
red were 30 perfectly toned that they
were beautiful together.
Quantities Of tulle are used in the
seasons mlllinery-for entire hats, for
yelling other trimmings, for crowns.
for parts Of brims In combination with
! straw. for bows. for frills.
Delightful mushroom shapes are
made entirely Of narrow, overlapping
tulle frills. with little flowers or nose
gays tucked here AND there amid the
fiuffiness; and other models in the
same shape are like the hat pictured
in a small cut on this page. made of
alternating lace and tulle frills, with a
little chou OF the lace and tulle at
the top Of the crown.
There IL a great liking for trans
parent or semi-transparent frills fall
ing from the brim edge and shadowing
the forehead and eyes just a trife in
n fashion fondly supposed to be mys-
FERROUS. though the average woman
peering through a fold Of tulle does not
achieve the haunting subtlety of which
the artist soul that originated the
mode probably dreamed. Where the
soft fall OF tulle or chiffon or lace or
organdy Is not too deep and the hat
does not throw the face into eclipse
the soft ripping arrangement Is be-
coming and artistic. and It Is used on
mats OF many types. small and large.
A recent model from a well known
French house is distinctly absurd and
yet. as a young woman In a Fifth ave-
nue. shop wears II for purposes of en-
couragement to faltering customers, IL
does succeed in achieving a smart alb
surdity. The blue straw crown is
tight fitting. Of moderate height and
Pill box shape. Around the upper
edge or this crown a frill Of blue tulle
stands up airily and around the lower
edge or he crown another narrow
full Of the tulle, substituting for brlm,
falls softly over forehead and hair.
Ihese are not only transparent brim
irllls through which eyes bright or
otherwise may peer. but transparent
prims on hats 30 tip tilted that the
wearer must needs .ook out upon the
world through the tulle brim: but
these. OF course. are extremes.
Apropos or things transparent. mod
ish hats have appeared in a fine open-
work or lattice straw through which
the coifure shows in glimpses and
through which the sunshine throws
odd checkered lights and shades on
the face beneath the brlm. And there
are hats Of unlined tulle which display
every strand Of the hair beneath.
Among freakish millinery are va
rious Chinese models fashioned on the
lines Of coolie and mandarin hats and
often trimmed in fairly close imitation
OF the original models. Some OF the
mandarin turbans with applique Chi
nese motifs and tassels bobbing from
their crown tops have a certain pic
turesque attraction. but only a very
pretty girl could win approval for the
coolie shape.
Spanish notes creep into some OF
the new millinery. the toreador hat
finding echoes in several recent and
successful t'irbans. and the students
cap or Tam o. Shanter model finds a