The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-05-19
WOMEN INSIST ON
BUYING SPRING HATS

BUYING SPRING HATS
Let us face the truth of spring apparel
quite frankly. and say that is is charm
ing; that it has millions of purchasers;
that there Is not need as yet to call
halt and that the employees of the mil
linery establishments are not needed by
the government
II we are going to buy spring hats, and
we are going to do it, let US discuss it
quite honestly. Let US talk about the
best millinery, the most fashionable, and
its suitability to our particular faces. We
may pay as little or as much for it as
we wish. That's case for the individual
conscience and the individual purse.
HAT WITH BRIM
REPLACES TURBAN
France and America have each seen the
fitness of the brim that shades the eyes
at a time when the sun pours straight
down, instead of obliquely.
The turban is, after all, the between
season hat. 1t is not entirely eliminated
from the scheme of things, but it has
yielded first place to the larger hat. The
high crown, however, has not given way
to the low crown. There are the new
sailors which, with their high crowns and
three-inch brims, threaten to overrun the
continent like a swarm of locusts.
These are both cheap and expensive,
well draped and badly draped; they are
in midnight blue, black, beige and red !;
they are made of rough straw, an al
though they are excessively smart, they
have hard unyielding lines. On the
hard face they are ugly; in juxtaposition
to small, coquettish, frail face they are
aluring.
Mind you. the hard, stiff brim is not the
only one If it were, thousands of wom-
en- would give up the struggle to be good
looking. for the woman who realizes that
hat makes or mars her face is the one
who knows how to dress. All the good
looking gowns in the world cannot af-
face needs softening and irregular lines.
1t is the hat and the neckwear which
lift you to the pedestal of prettiness or
ness There are immense, sweeping brims
in fashion which you may choose if your
face needs fostenisg and irregular lines
There is an ultra smart hat which
leads the way 1t is made of pleated
strawberry georgette crepe faced with
black straw, with wide band of straw
encircling the crown. Wherever it goes
this hat is copied in various colors and
worn in the afternoon. Wi
! Those who feel that the brim must hide
the forehead and nearly eclipse the eyes
may still cling to the mushroom shape,
which is permitted in the best society;
and those who feel a thrill of happiness
at the mere mention of English garden
hats may go in for this particular type
of picturesqueness with the realization
that they ares triking the absolutely new
note in this summers fashions.
| 1t was Jeanne Lanvin who brough,
out the huge organdy hat with its rose
on the brim, and since then the Ameri
| can designers have tumbled over them
| selves in their effort to introduce chit
! fon and organdy hats made in paste
| colors, combining old blue and deer
pink. The rose and the long streamers
which trim this type of hat suggest the
gurden party, so let us hope that the
| a vel d6S WOilidIl Will IcdilAS tildL tiiC Id
cannot be worn on the street.
| The late ruffle at the brim of the large
| hat is another fashion which has beer
| revived from an older and more demure
epoch. There was once a time when
we wore black straw hats covered with
| lace, made of black tulle embroidered
with peacock eyes. with ruffle of the
lace at the edge of the brim. Why
doesn't some milliner revive that espe
cial fashion? Is the colored peacock lace
! impossible to get?
MILLINERS TRY TO
| GUIDO DRESSMAKERS
| Not being quite certain of the pur-
chasing power of the public in regard C
gowns and suits, the miliners saw thei
opportunity to throw a tidal wave OF
new and varied hats into the current o.
clothes.
| When one goes out to look for new
spring hats one is caught in this cur
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