The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1920-04-01


to- every sort of fabric for millinery
use, frayed out horsehair cloth and
violently thrusting feathers vie with
gayly dyed raliia and spun glass
There are not so many monkey haiE
scalp locks as during the winter sea-
son, notes prominent fashion writer
but their place is taken by turbans
of lizard skin. Chinese hats have i'm
itatiOn queues dangling from their
crowns and Egyptian hats have colos-
sal earrings dangling from each side,
while naive fruits, flowers and vege-
tables decorate hats of every descrip-
ton
The first, If not the last, word Of any
talk about early spring hats is news
of the waXed and vanished fabrics
which are so prOnOunCedly in evidence.
Beginning with that curious substance
CellOphane, which is COnjured into so
many forms, everything glitters, rib
bon, satin, feathers and straw. Cello
phane, as Il braid in rather wide strips,
resembles a fiat, shiny straw, but there
are many genuine straw braids which
are treated to highly polished fin
ish
Rafiia, which is used so extensively
in a decorative way, is also finely
shredded and vanished until it ap-
pears like a delicate, silky flOss, of
which draped turbans are made and
yelled with tulle. Another strange
fabric, spun glass, twisted and us
tough as wire, is made use of in
similar manner.
No End to the Unique.
But there is no end to the unique
and interesting substances which
French milliners have been expert
menting with in these early hats,
whether to eke out a scarcity of straw,
to distract attention from a lack of
originality in design, or merely from
caprice, it is impossible to say. How
many Of them will find permanent
favor and last over into the normal
spring hat season will develop later.
Grass cloth Of various Weaves and
under such Suggestively barbaric
names as Batavia and Congo cloth is
much used and it's semi-transparent
and extremely pliable texture makes
It desirable for the somewhat bizarre
and informal hats which were once
delegated to the sports wardrobe
Hindu turbans, plated and embrol-
dered toques, as well as larger shapes,
are produced from these primitive
| fabrics and are often embroidered with
cOlOred woods and gayly dyed rafffa.
Hairlike Hindu cloth, which may be
crushed to look like skeins of silk or
pulled apart to the fragility of a
spiders web, is another of these
drapable fabrics, and q really beau
tifUl French hair cloth has been pro-
duced which may be softly draped or
blocked into stiff, high crowns. These
hair cloths are lovely in color for
even such gorgeous tints as burnt
orange, topaz and mint green are CON
siderably softened by the transparency
of the fabric.
Built over Lining of Taffeta.
They are frequently built over n
lining of taffeta in Il different color
especially in the case Of the small
dIaped turbans or tOques. One Of
these turbans in high favor is a twist
OF cherry colOred hair cloth tied
around the crown lining in gypsy fash
ion and without other trimming than
single frayed out end, which falls
over one ear. The hair cloth hats
with mushroom brims and high crowns
are more often than not decorated
with thin ostrich plumes in the same
color as the hair cloth, or there may be
struggling spray Of waXed flowers
stretched across the crown.
Milan straws aud colored leghOrn
are still to be had in this welter Of
fabrics strange and unaccustomed, and