The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-02-17
HATS AGAIN.

One of the newest notions Is the sa tin, silk or georgette hat eIIlbroid cred in bold satin flowers, poppies. large roses and pansies. One such IS made of a dark blue satin latttced over with a blue satin straw, show ing the embroidered flowers between the straw barricade. Of course, many of the satin hats have the brim un- derneath faced with straw, or the re- verse is true, though as often as not the hat is entirely of satin Many milliners are making very wide brimmeds hats with a, covering of some striking material and color, and over this drawing a tight covering of thin georgette. This is found exploited well in a cie1 blue georgette through which shows a lining of heavy white ennbr oidery in a leaf design. The combination is unusual enough to at tract instant attention, and is at the same time very good, indeed.
 Of course there is a tremendous showing at this moment of the sports hats and the delightful dropping fbrims with trailing ribbons and pret- tY4 pale flowers, intended to set off the lovely, bewitching frocks for southern wear. The prettiest fad of the moment is that of having sweater,
  with very wide brims are so pretty when accompanied thus. Women might we'll be divided into two dis tinct classes---those who wear the fitting, tight toques and those who always appear in large hats Now, a large hat is not always easy to wear and seEdom has the jauntT, picturesque look the small chapeau gives. Almost any woman, given youth, spirit and passable amount of looks, can coquette with a small hat on her head, but not so with the lady with the large and dropping brirn. She is creating a picture and must live up to 1t, more often than not, says the New York Sun.
 Just now there is a perfect furore of feather trimming, fantasies, swirls, bandeau, sprays of every sort plen tifuIy used. Such wonderful things are done nowadays with feather fronds. The nilliners understand so well how to treat them that exquisite novelties result---such as flowers made entirely of fronds, the ends of which are caught and fastened so that there are no ends at all.
 One of the prettiest of the satin hats about is a small black affair, like a much enlarged tfim1ble, with an upturned brim of these feather fronds, which show no ends, but make the softest of trimming so close to the face.
 Velvet is going on into the summer beyond a doubt, as it now appears stitched into large brinlned Leg horn and having for it's only trim ming one very large yellow velvet flower. The brin1 is of the wide pie :ure type so well suited to tall wo I,Er 2 lavender velvet in very narrow rows, each stitched above the other, until the entire hat is covered after the manner of the little ribbon sport hats of pink and blue so much in vogue last season.
 Lavender, by the way, is one of the desired shades just now and 8 new shade bordering somewhat on the lavender, though with much moro red, is called the "Vtctory' shade. This, too, has been made up into small toques for the in between season. Quilted satin crowns are lovely and new, and hat brims faced with fuzzy white angora or brush wool with crowns and top brim of straw of some lovely pale shade, such as pink, blue and lavender, are the sweetest. most becoming hats imag aginable. Of course they have wide and rolling brims, which flare away on one side and cover the face well on the other. Moire ribbon is much used to trim both satin ana straw hats, just as 1t was last year. Moire never seems to lose it's charm and is used success fully season after season.
 Many mushroom hats appear, nat urally intended for purely sun wear. They have a simple trimming for only n 6ia,ob dark hlIla ribbon band, though some are showing a knot of Belgian, French or English or American colors oleveriy caught in the bow of the ribbon, which proves what I said in the beginning, that it will be a long time indeed before we get entirely away from the events through which we have just passed and a long time indeed before the fashion makers omit some reminiscent 1 military note.
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