Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-01-27

straw hats strike the llSplia-
tional note now. The moment
y holly wreaths and Christmas
cards disappeared from the shop win
dows, the new straw ChapeauX BIOS
somed forth and no daughter of
woman ever born was able to resist
the lure Of new spring hat promise
when first it was offered.
1t seems to be offered earlier and
earlier every year now. Time was
when nobody thought about a spring
hat until midway of March. Then
February became the time. Then
January brought out the spring MILL
merry. This season. before the old
year had drawn his dignified, last
breath, spring-in the frivolous guise
of captivating new straw hats-was
obtruding her personality
December did seem a bit early for
spring millinery, to be sure; but one
could not discern that women were
any the less eager to examine the new
models for all that. With spring styles
and fall styles making their bow, each
year, a few weeks earlier in the cal
endar, one wonders whether Fashion,
after bit. will not be in the predica-
ment Of the extravagant woman who
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the ends got so far apart that they
threatened to meet on the back
stretch! Or will the situation be like
that Of the trade magazines which
present the styles being prepared for
a year from now, while the retail
shops and womankind are concerned
with the styles of now?
At any rate, the spring hats have
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cember and some of the prettiest and
most authoritative of the new models
have been selected for your consid-
Grafton and approval today
Small Are Turbans; Large Are Sailors
Some of the new spring turbans are
50 tiny they seem intended for child
ish heads rather than the heads OF
grown women; but that is because the
outer part Of the shape is built so close
TO the head size; and the head size is
intended to fit rather high around the
head, showing the hair. All hats OF
this sort tip forward rather thar
backward on the head and are no.
tilted rakishly toward the side. They
are intensely chic, but are dignifiet
rather than saucy or dashing. Tur.
bans are almost invariably of sill
combined with straw-the soft, fiexi
BILE hemp being first favorite. one
sees all-silk turbans, also, trimmed
with bands of glazed straw goot
deal of this glazed straw trimming i
going to be used this season If sign
point Alright. A turban of this typ
Is pictured and along with the bant
OF glazed straw, set in diagonal rows
Is the new sunrise bow which describe
big semi at the back of tn
crown--or, In fact. two semi circles
one Just behind the other. The sun
rise bow Is made of very wide sati
ribbon of substantial weight, run wit
piped cording along one edge an
gathered at the other edge; the gath
ers being drawn toward the center s
that the folds of the ribbon sprea
out toward the circumference in far
like effect. The picture gives an eS
cellent idea of this smart bow, mad
of black satin and arranged behind
black satin turban having very nal
row, straight brim. The glazed stra
trimming Is also black. Because
the straw trimming. this is a perfect
correct spring hat though in the h;
itself, there is not particle of stray
Sailors and picture shapes are
large as turbans are tiny. Wome
are always most interested, at tn
season, in the turbans which prese
a practical style for immediate sire
wear, but some Of the wide sailors T.
southern wear are very lovely in the
promise of things to be for next sun
mer. One notes great deal of 70
in the larger hats-rose colored stray
in combination with rose colored sill
and other shapes in old pink. ceris