The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-10
DRESS AND SUGGESTIONS
 ANNE p,4Fr,uoy.r FOR WOMEN
By ANNE GREENHOUSE
As a Symbol of Simplicity, Daisies Are the Flowers Chosen by Milli- ners for the Topnotch of Fashion.

1 New York, July 9.--Here and there 1 throughout the recent history of fash
 ions, the milliners have introduced
 punches of field flowers on summer hats But the public never gave full enthusiasm to the project. 1 Feathers have always been mode de- | lectab1e than flowers to the French and American people. The English | women, on the contrary. have made the garden hat with it's wreath of daisies, forget-me-nots and small pink roses as much of an institution as the garden party and the o'clock tea.
 VANISHED DAISIES The introduction of the favorite field flower into smart millinery, which means high priced French hats, was made by Suzanne Talbot a few years ago. She took 1t into her clever head that she was going to varnish every thing she could use on hats. She used shellac with a lavish hand, ribbon shown under its new coating, flowers glistened and were solidified under this shining coat of liquid, and daisies took on somewhat the appearance of waxed flowers under the glass covers, which were the horror of the nineteenth cen tury.
 This invention of Talbot was looked upon askance by the American buyers, but. after awhile. this idea of impris- oning daisies under a varnish rather took the public fancy and here and there it was taken up in obedience to the law of adventure and experiment..
 It anne. it remained for brief time, and it faded out of existence, this fashion and only the vanished ribbon remained as fragment of what had once brought to milliner many hun dreds of dollars.
 Today the daisy is revived into all kinds of millinery. It Is used on the most sedate hat of black satin, 1t Is dashed, in handfuls, on garden hats of basket straw, it Is twisted into sedate designs and applied to white felt and it is wreathed into triangles or small circles and wrapped around the crowns of Leghorn hats.
 When 1t is small it is too insignin- cant for the hat with the brim, but the milliners are now seeing to it that it grows into larger proportions than nature ever allowed.
 THE FIELD FLOWER HAT
 There still remains the tradition, hat, heaped with field flowers, is not the special kind of millinery that woman over 30 should choose. In the regular order of things, it should be left to youth. but so little is left to youth today, in fashion or in activity, that 1t would be wasting space to de- fine the limitations of any fashion.
 If woman feels that there Is some thing about middle age that seems to require the gardenia, the magnolia, the orchid or feather.
 The hat in the sketch was worn by a young girl It is, of course, braid, with deep border of stray, in bas- ket weave, bound with grass green velvet. Carelessly heaped on the brim and crown are great, ragged daisies in yellow and white, broken up with wild geranium. Through these flowers runs a grass green ribbon that finishes somewhere on the side in a casual knot.
 The introduction of figured voile, white organdy, checked ginghams and even calico frocks will undoubtedly bring about a great demand for these loosely woven straw hats with field flowers. At the moment of writing large majority of these coarse straw hats are most reasonable in price. But no one can tell what the week brings forth in the rising scale of prices. The common garden product of Monday Is the luxurious extravaganza of Satur. day.