Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-29

History says little about women who
have been remembered by any special
Kind OF hat, unless one puts the
pointed head-dress of Marie Stuart
into that class.
Hats in truth are modern garnitures,
as trousers are modern garments,
broadly speaking and measuring time
by centuries. not by days.
When the first Partisan appeared in
long trousers he created far more SEN
sation than any woman has been able
to do with any costume, freakish or
demure.
When the king who didn't want to
get wet put something over his head
and called it hat Gin another word)
he reckoned not with the tremendous
posterity that would follow his ex-
ample and consider his bit OF way
ward caprice n necessity OF outdoor
costumery.
1t may be that civilized peoples do
not realize that there are still i'm
mense areas on this planet in which
the women do not wear hats. They
live according to the tradition OF their
countries. Cold weather may cause a
head covering. coquetry may require
head yelling. rose. a comb.
bandeau, a jeweled cap; but hats, in
the ordinary sense OF the word are
unknown.
In those countries milliners would
starve to death. They would never be
able to persuade the women into
fashion against which their minds
have been set for centuries.
There have been eras, coming and
going. in this country, when an i'm
mense effort was made by leaders of
wealth and fashion to abolish hats
Women were told that sun and air
were as much needed by the head as
by the body. Regiments Of hatless
girls went about the country, outside
the city limits, with their hair in a
net or banded with ribbon.
1t is this doctrine of letting the hair
get the sun and air that brings the
transparent hat into fashion.
There is a strong impulsive move
ment toward it this season. 1t may
be classed as the dominating hat Of
the summer.
1t has been said that the American
woman has no profile that is pleasing.
that the French woman has a better
profile than n full face and that the
transparent hat is invented for her to
exhibit this peculiar racial beauty.
1t Is a truth that the large, trans
parent hat with it's brim rolled down
to the shoulder on one side, is an ex-
cellent fashion for a woman with
soft profile. 1t is not the type of hat
for any one whose chin Is square.
whose nose Is blunt and whose cheeks
are full. The downward sweep of this
transparent brim is intended purely
for a faint cameo etching on the other
side OF it. So beware Of it, unless
your mirror and artistic friends have
told you that your profile is good.
However. 1t Is not necessary to in
sist upon the downward sweep of the
transparent brim. The hat that does
not play up the role OF the profile is
also good, although it is not the only
one in fashion.
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There are hats of lace. of georgette,
the unwieldy appearance Of sunbon-
These are only family boned. for the
milliners have discovered that the
extra boning Of these wired hats for
the purpose of giving them body and
stiffness. has taken away in a large
manner from their loneliness.
The organdy hats of last season had
the unwieldly appearance OF sunbon-
nets with Stats. because Of dozen or
more pieces OF featherboning that
were run across the brim and into the
crown to keep the material steady
They were discarded because Of this
ugly touch.
1t is necessary to wire these trans
parent hats at the brim. but the crown
should be left free Of stiffness, and
the brim should not be marred by bits
OF featherboning or crinoline.
The dropping brim Is a good fashion
ON q large hat, and the milliners do
whatever they can to make it appear
careless and graceful.
This is another type Of hat that Is
only suitable to certain types Of faces
What is known as the Hopping brim
goes only with youth. or with that ex-
tremely slender. youthful middle age
that has no lines on the face. The
woman with tired eyes and lines about
the mouth, no matter how cleverly she
Ia made I'M cannot stand in the sun