The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-23

m holly wreathS and Christmas cards disappeared from the shop win dows, the new straw chapeauX blos- 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
 It seems to be offered earlier and earlier every year now. Time was when nobody thought about spring hat until midway of March. Then February became the time. Then January brought out the spring milli- nery. This season, before the old year had drawn his dignifed, 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. few weeks earlier in the cal- endar, one wonders whether Fashion, after a bit. will not be in the predica- ment of the extravagant woman who tried to make ends meet-by and bye lllo cluS SOt SO ldI dpdTG lIldL Iuty 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 been out since the last week in De- cember and some of the prettiest and most authoritative of the new models have been selected for your consid- eration and approval today.
 Small Are Turbans; Large Are Sailors.
 Some of the new spring turbans are so 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 than backward on the head and are not tilted rakishly toward the side. They are intensely chic, but are dignified rather than saucy or dashing. Fur bans are almost invariably of silk combined with straw-the soft, f1exi- ble hemp being first favorite. One sees all-silk turbans, also, trimm ed with bands of glazed straw-a good deal of this glazed straw trimming is going to be used this season if signs point alright. A turban of this type is pictured; and along with the band of glazed straw, set in diagonal rows, is the new sunrise bow which describes a big semi-circle at the back of the Crown-or in fact, two semi circles, one just behind the other. The sun rise bow is made of very wide satin ribbon of substantial weight, run with Q piped cording along one edge and gathered at the other edge; the gath CTS being drawn toward the center, so that the folds of the ribbon spread out toward the circumference in fan like effect. The picture gives an ex- cellent idea of this smart bow, made of black satin and arranged behind a black satin turban having a very mar row, straight brim. The glazed straw trimming is also black. Because of the straw trimming, this is perfectly correct spring hat though in the hat itself there is not particle of straw.
 Sailors and picture shapes are as large as turbans are tiny. Women are always most interested at this season, in the turbans which present a practical style for immediate street wear, but some of the wide sailors for southern wear are very lovely in their promise of things to be for next sum- mer. One notes a great deal of rose in the larger hats-rose colored straws in combination with rose colored silk and other shapes in old pink, cerise