The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-15
DRESS AND SUGGESTIONS ANNE ~.4ssa.n.r.. FOR WOMEN
Ry ANNE RITTENHousR
An Effort Is Being Made by the Mil
 liners to Emphasize Hats That Flare Widely at the Sides and Back, as Substitutes for Straight Brims.


 New York.-The sailor hat does not have things it's own way. The straight brim is desired by many, but the mill liners do not choose to let fashion rest on one particular shape.
 Each face differs from the next, and there is no reason to suppose that one type of hat can be becoming to thousand different conformations of features and coloring It is not pos sihle for any two women to have the same set of features, the same com plexion, the same tiltsto the eyebrows, and until all women have faces cast in one mold. the mniners will find thousand varieties of hats--not too many when one has to suit continent full of women clamoring to look the best they can.
 THE iUPTURNED BRIM
 When the season began the struggle was between the wide flat brim of the usual, conventional sort and the irreg ular brim which tilted upward at the side or back.
 Early in the season. or rather, in the middle of last winter, there came into fashion the hat With the upturned frim in front, kind of Napoleonic affair that was merely a side-step from the Slavic turban that had the straight piece faring upward from the eye brows.
 This hat went the way of the usual fashions that become too common. It disappeared for time, but it may rise to the~surface again in newer and more persuasive form. As far as the season has gone, the designers smash the brim upward at the side or back. There is no gradual uplifting, no slight curving of the brim as in the old days, for today the movement upward is forcible and de- cided, as though someone had taken 8 strong hand and plastered the brim back against the crown This is not graceful movement, and | 1t is not always an easy style to match to the average face. It requires a face l that is used to carrying off extreme and junusual fashions and that depends for success upon it's own cleverness of type, rather than upon beauty. l The world has long ago found that | the beautiful face is by no means the one that carries off new fashion clever 1 ly Its possessor is often content with the traditional styles that go with tra- ditiona, beauty. So the modern move ment is away from this type of face, and even the artists do not pay to it the homage due
 | With the perversity for which this 1 generation, is famous, we take up with | the face that carries off we'll the most extreme things and likes it's own au- l dacity.
 HATS STILL WORN FORWARD
 The nilliners and the women in com binaton have decided that there must De no backward tilt to the hat, no matter what caprces of the brim are tolerated so the ey ebrows continue to disappear under the forward tilt of the hat, anc the eyes look out as from under visor.
 This entire manner of posing the ha has been tenaciousy kept in tho mos civilized parts of the world for the las
 three seasons, because of the continua
 presence of officers.
 If the briin of the hat is turned up
 ward, as is shown in this one Of blacl
 straw, it is plastered against the crowi
 in straight line from the tip or tn
 ear, and when it does turn 1t turns
 the very top in order to support wav'
 of aigrettes-