Evening journal., 1916-09-16
FLAT BRIMS THE
THING IN MEMS HATS
No Coy Ribbons, But Change.
able Silk Bands on Fall
Headgear
GOOD.BY, OLD
STRAW HAT! GoOD-BY

That's music" said Eleeful hat
store proprietors, r1ithlessly violating
President Wilson's copyright OF that
phrase when they heard Yesterdays
rain singing a funeral chant at the
obsequies OF Q. s. Kelly. 20" mean
ing Old, IS" standing for Straw and
Kelly being descriptive Of braided
headpieces that slid their last slide on
September IS.
Somebody, TO be sure, put sand on
the slide, and somebody else drove
big nails up through II, and some
body else must have dumped a load
of bricks upon it just as a flock of the
venerable straws were coming
through. The minimum peace strength
company Of jaundiced wheat brain
pads that bobbed through the rain
looked sorrier than a bunch of French
walters at a Volkfest, and nobody
cared a straw. This attitude OF the
conscienceless male toward his old
friend of the hot months is as queer
as il is universal
Who remembered the days OF %
degrees in the shade, not years.,
when Kelly's tender touch on the
brow cooled the brazen suns rays?
Who gave thought to departed Au-
gust. that fiery Teuton whose fierce
blows the light wiry Celt deftly
thwarted? Who recalled his girls
"Oh. what a nice new straw hat;
gimme the little bow inside!" In the
words OF Bert Williams. 'No-o-o-bod-
deel" The only thing older than yes
terday's newspaper is a straw hat on
September 16. It's the way Of the
world
Here's the Last HCry" In Hats.
But enough of this sob stuff. Trou-
sered America has new love, a soft
sleek. insidious new love, light as
thistledown and richly colored like
slice OF hot gingerbread or glass Of
creme de menthe. Ribbons OF change
able silk grid her round about and
her smile, even though plate glass,
has a witchery that tingles way down
to the pocketbook. except. OF course,
in the case OF those one-way pockets.
They and faithful Kelly will be In
separable till the snow flies.
To get real practical in this deli
cate situation, It should be stated that
during the fall OF 1916 men will wear
hats. Last year they we're coy little
things with fiuttering ribbons halfway
between the stern and amidships Red
blooded men wore them because there
was nothing else TO wear. But the
futtering ribbons have gone and this
years nearest approach to feminine
coyness Is the changeable silk band.
slyly tucked and ruffled by henpecked
designers Of male fashions.
No More Austrian VelourS.
The horrors of war again reach Amer
ica in the hat situation. Austrian hats
are blockaded by the Allies. ANY at
tempt to ship across a cargo of Austrian
velours is likely to bring about an
awful ocean disaster. and 10 conserve
the tear crop, Austria is keeping her We
lours at home. Only from Italy and
England can Americans who must have
trans Atlantic odor about their head
gear get their 1916 hats. For the rest
they must be content with the common
United States odor.
There viii he no polka dots or stripes
on the new hatbands. "Passe. passel"
exclaimed a highbrow hat dealer when
they were mentioned And the good old
derby viii come along in due course,
and some men will continue 10 wear
rolling brims on their soft felts. though
the "real thing is fiat brim. and the
SHOWS of winter will come and go and
this sleek new love we spoke of above
will take a running Jump into the ash
can and 0. $. Kelly will poke his Clipped
old nose over the top shelf and muir
mur: did yez call mc;'
Thatll be music!