Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-14
The Evening Hat Goes
With the Low Gown

practice aided and furthered by com
merce for its own dark reasons
If one Is going south from any point
tf the compass on this planet, wheth-
er IL means Italy, Egypt, Panama or
FLORIDA, there Is every reason TO want
straw hat In January, and IL Is 70
beguile the people who ATE running
away from the snow into spendinL
their pennies on new hats. that the
windows blossom ont with straw hat
on the day after the new calendurs
are hung on the wall.
All of this Is sane behavior. but
when the women who remained In
the snow took il into their heads to
adopt the head covering of June. and
the milliners, seeing in this caprice
chance 10 make hundreds of dollars
In n dun month, imported from Paris
every manner of hot-weathor hat.
then the whole world suddenly took
IT into its head that this was the right
thing to do.
Actually. there is no sense whatever
In rushing the season like this by
the time May arrives, with It's sum
shine In climates that are given over
Ia cold winters, there is nothing left
that is new or enticing in the way OF
hats, and one has the consciousness
of exploiting straw and roses during
the days when every change in tho
skies meant weather that made such
q hat ridiculous.
But-preuchings are of no avail.
If women want straw hats I'm the first
month of the new year, they're going
TO have them. and if they feel that
they would rather wear summer hats
for nine months in the year tho
they are the most pershable form of
heaGgear. nothing will stop them from
a. "a 10 ha Mi a . I.i ire
Is the purse, and they find hundreds
Of merchants who will encourage
them in this caprice 10 the extent Of
bankruptcy.
Satin as Rival TO Straw.
The cdct that the milliners took up
sntin for several shapes in the new
millinery will contribute toward more
scasonableness of headgear this win
ter than last. No one objects to satin,
especially If it is in black or in dark
color, as a relief and offset to tho
black velvet hats that have been worn
so unremittingly that one began to
thing that the milliners had lost all
power of originality in choosing fab
RIGS
There have been several seasons in
which black velvet dominated but
there has never been anything TO
fiuii lIt luSl olA AZ any
foregathering of women. the black
velvet hat was as seemingly necessary
to the costume as the steel helmet to
the soldier. Shapes differed, orna-
mentation varied, but the hat was
black velvet, and on this fabric were
rung the slight changes that the mil
liners invented.
Women do not tire of black velvet
hats any more than they tire of bite
serge suits and frocks. They are the
bread and water of fashions The
cnly time that the velvet hat grows
wearisome in the eyes OF the average
woman IL when the first SHOWS fall
and the fashionables turn their at
tention to the pines. Then the aver.
age woman wants to discard velvet
and get anything she. can as n suhsti-
tute; and today, satin is wisely ot
fered as a compromise between win
ter and summer millinery.
There are also satin hats in all tho
shades that Nature gives to a dahlit
for America. as well as France, has
decided that these purplish tones are
peating them thruout costumery with
excellent effect.
The brilliant purple that was adVo-
Gated at the beginning OF the season
has been coldly greeted. but the deep
puppies that are almost on blue and
black are found to agree with every
kind of gown and coat worn.
The shapes of the new hats reveal
no long disguised secrets on the part
of the millinery. The Russian tur.
ban in its original form is abandoned,
but there is an undoubted suggestion
! from the Muscovite turban in the new