The L'Anse sentinel., 1919-02-14
THAT START
SPRING FASHIONS

She came to lunch in q restaurant
wearing the genuine Alsatian bow,
black and immense, placed across the
middle of her head. with mere apol-
ogy of little cloth cap In front of It..
1t stood upward and outward, and her
hair was coiled high behind 1t. This
was the real thing, and her daring
made her the target of all eyes. II
may be that the Alsatian bow in this
form will be introduced for the eve
ming. Let us hope that 1t will never
appear at the theater. At the present
rate Of prices and the scarcity OF
seats, the addition of hundred or SO
Alsatian bows In the audience would
be the straw on the camers back.
Charlotte corday Cap.
The Charlotte Corday cap, minus
Its bow, has been introduced for the
South and Is taken up by the North.
1t Is made of brilliant, dark tulle, al
ways double, but entirely transparent.
The best one is in copper tulle, its
high crown trimmed at the base with
a twist OF tulle and one of those
rocco red roses with gold outer
petals and leaves which have been
brought into fashion by q well-known
designer of individual evening gowns.
The transparent hat is beyond ques.
tion one of the smart fashions of the
hour. 1t means that the cOiffure must
come back into orderIiness and loveli-
ness The crowns of these hats are
often high and gently manipulated by
the fingers to give grace, and one of
the best French hats takes the crown
Of the American doughboy hat as its
model.
AS brown rules In yelling, so 1t
seems to rule In these tulle hats. IL
Is often In the color that the French
call "marron," that chestnut brown
which is soft and becoming. Over
there smart women wear stockings of
1t with black slippers, even In eve
ming dress, and they like 1t in all the
accessories. Over here we are Just
beginning to grasp its Importance
The milliners believe that In copper
and chestnut, the brown hat will rule
the spring season.
Hats and Bobbed Hair.
The Florentine coiffure is no longer
a caprice Of the extremists; it Is no
longer sensational bit of bravado.
The war has instated II as strong
fashion. Women with gray hair wear
1t bobbed to the nape of the neck or
curled under to appear us though 1t
were cut. Girls with every shade of
hair wear 1t. Matrons with half
grown children adopt 1t. SO tho mil
liners, after frantic wringing of the
hands, have decided that they must
meet this new demand. There must
be q large and creative impulse for
hats that will 60 with this Florentine
The broad, fiat hat Of Ma
pies has been brought out ami is
adopted by one young matrol whose
face figures In half the periodicals of
The day, and her side companion. who
also wears the ancient Italian hair
cut, adopts the Florentine velvet hat
With Its trimming of two rows IF coral
beads.
1t must be admitted that the women
themselves have seen to 1t that they
look well in any type of hat with this
bobbed hair, whether It be turban or
Hat brim. They cannot, of course,
wear hats Of exceeding dignity, but
they try certain type OF distin-
guished hat which II considered the
leading thing by the milliners; and
they carry II OF with great skill. This
s the immense black-thread lace hat,
with Its broad Alsatlan
bow wired across the front. This IL
he hat that will supersede. for the
spring, the upturned, many pointed.
theatrical hat Of silk plush and velvet.
With Its aigrettes.
Copyright. 1919 by the Mcclure News
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