The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-07-10
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As 4 symbol Of simplicity, daisies arc
the flowers chosen by milliners for
tho top notch OF fashion.

NEW YORK, July 9-Here an,
there, throughout, the recent history u
fashions, the m,lliners have INTRODUCED
lunches OF field flowers on summer
hats But the public never gave ful
enthusiasm TO the project
Feathers have always been more de
lectablc than flowers to the French an,
American people The English women
on the contrary, have made the Rsrdcr
hat with its wreath OF daisies. forget.
me-nots and small pink roses as muc'
OF an institution as the garden party
and the o'clock tea.
When Daisies Were Vanished
The introduction Of the iavorite field
flower into smar, millinery, which
means high priced French hats, wa
made by Suzanne Talbot a few years
ago. She took II into her clever head
that she was going to varnish every
thing she could use on hats She used
shellac with 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 waxcd
flower, under the glass covers, which
were the horror OF the nineteenth
century.
This invention of Talbot was looked
upon askancc by the American buyers,
hut, after a while, this idea OF impri,on-
ing daisies under varnish rather took
the public fancy, and here and there,
II was taken up in obedience to the
law OF adventure and experiment.
II came. it remained for a brief time,
and il 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. II is used on the
most sedatc hat Of black satin; it i'
dashed, in handfuls, on garden hats OF
basket straw; it is twisted into sedatc
designs and applied to white felt; and
II is wrcathed into triangles or small
circles and wrapped around the crowns
OF Leghorn hats.
When it is small, il is too insgnifi-
cant for the hat with the brim, but
the mlliners are now seeing to it that
II grows into larger proportions than
nature ever allowed.
The Field Flower Hat.
There still remains the tradition.
which is a wise one. that the garden
hat heaped with field flowers, is no,
the special kind of millinery that a
woman over 20 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 it would be wasting space to de-
fine the limitations Of any fashion.
II a 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
young girl II is OF coarse braid,
with a deeb border Of straw in bas
Ike, weave, bound with grass green
velvet Careleuly 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 casual
knot
The introduction Of figured voilc,
white organdy, checked ginghams and
even calico iroch will undoubtedly
bring about a great demand for these
loosely woven straw hats with field