The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-28
DRESS AND SUGGESTIONS ANNE n,4Hsa,Hoy.. FOR WOMEN
California forests suggest the new shade of velvet which the milliners are using for draped velvet hats.

New York, September N.-One finds
 that red is the color of the hour when one begins to speculate as to what is
 the best of the brilliant shades. Gray may be said to rule the world, but there are quite a sufficient number of bril- liant colors in the autumn costumery to and Quakers.
 It is the feeling of the experts in this
 country who have been dealing with
 French and American gowns for four
 weeks, that America will resolve itself into a black and white composition be- fore Christmas. but they are exploiting
 the deep, rich tones wherever they can find a good showing for them. Purple and red are more important
 than green in this list of strong tones,
 and the dyers have found admirable
 shades in which tip the fabrics. Tn red, there is best root, also flame Bur gundy, dregs of wine, nasturtium, ger-
 anium and now the new tone called red-
 wood, which no American needs to be i told Is taken from our own sumptuous forests on the Pacific coast
 4 In going about from dressmaker to dressmaker to look at the new clothes | that are being bought by thousands of women and men who have been sent to New York from every state in the union, one hears the constant expression of amazement that the art of dyeing has had no setback since the war. A great hubbub was raised last win- ter about probable scarcity of dyes. IT, I... clothes that there would soon be noth- ing left for us in the way of color. Even the possibility of maintaining a good black was looked upon with pessimism: yet, a woman who deals with the buyers from every state said most emphatical- ly that she had had the best experience of her life this season with cloths and dyes. She went on to explain that
 America might not have the extraordin- ary subtlety in tone that the French
 can get, but that the dyes over here
 were good, they were artistic, and bet
 ter than all, they could be duplicated in an hours notice. This is interesting and
 very important.
 Among these colors which the Amer jeans have produced are the vaeious
 shades of red, especially beet root and redwood They have also been able to get hold of that odd purple which is seen in the peat bogs and of which
 England makes so much in her cloths.
 These shades will predominate in win-
 ter tailored suits.
 RED FOR MILLINERY
 Everyone knows that it is only dar-
 ing woman who will put on bright red hat Only those who are utterly careless and entirely negligent of their appear ances rush into the field of red millinery. In the new hats, however, these dark shades of red predominate, and they are not to have the danger signal over them. Nearly every woman in the world can wear velvet hat in the tones called beet root and redwood. There is a touch of that rich mahogany in one and that earth brown in the other that makes
 them suitable to the texture of the skin
 and the color of the eyes.
 Of course, this is to be a season of draped fabric hats, as you probably
 know by this time. What is called the | collapsible crown has precedence over | all others except the stiff, oblong crown used in sport hats made of silk plush. | There is something about the draped | velvet hat that coincides quite neatly with the high, boned stock which will shortly be accepted over all rolling col lars.
 The sketch shows this combination as you will see 1t on the smart women after the middle of October. The hat has that oblong line that is always becoming. It is made of beet root velvet and 1t runs to slight point back and front, but fits the head so closely that quite good deal of the coiffure Is exposed. The only touch of color on the deep forest red is a bit of golden poppy rib- bon which is crushed through two long buttonholes embroidered in the velvet