The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-03-13

DAW A114 ROOT IOOAuS AldN0 " taAS -
~ back seat now. Their vocation Is
IT. gone. They no longer foretell
- springtime, and their first glad
chirp no more brings a thrill to
early-waking suburbanites. Everybody
knows It Is spring, long before they
get here. even though they venture
before snow has departed and huddle
Intentionally In the hedges, waiting
for clear spaces of lawn to hop over.
For spring millinery, however, Mr..
Robin may hurry. Is ahead Of him,
Wanting itself in the shop windows.
and even on heads of pedestrians in
the streets It's an early bird who
catches the worm. and it's an earlier
robin who sings his song in the north
land before the first straw hat appears
on femininityl
As was to be anticipated this year,
most of the spring chapeaux are of
straw. And the new straws are mar
velously supple and soft. They drape
like fabrics. Even some of the blocked
hats suggest a draped effect-the
straw turban with vulture feather
sweeping off at one side. for instance.
Incredibly flexible is the straw that
will drape itself like that, and the
straw has glossy simmer like satin.
This hat is black, like so many OF the
small street hats for first wear.
Gay Colors Greet Springtime
The hats that are not smartly black.
linery does not seem to be fashionable
this spring. II color is subdued, then
style is arrestingly dashing. A hat
must be striking and individual now,
either in shape, style or hue. Hats
that travel in armies; that represent
current mode in numbers, are avoid
ed carefully by exclusive dressers.
This keeps the milliners busy devising
new modes, for the hat that Is ex-
tremely fetching Is almost certain TO
be copied and recopied by the manu-
facturers who send it out in droves
at bargain price.
Red hats seem to be particularly
1avored--but then there Is always a
Fancy for red hats at the commence
ment of spring; a sort of reaction
against the dull. dark hues of the
winter season. One of the reddest
hats noted Is O. gay little turban OF
milan with crown that Grapes over
tam-fashion though made of the
straw; and bright red currants massed
all around the brim. Currants, by the
way, are hit OF the season, red cur
rants and white curranes. IL seems
almost Intentional Though one doubts
not 1t was a coincidence) that Miss
Amy Lowell's latest bit OF free verse
In a February magazine should be en-
titled II give you white currants."
White currants. It Is. at any rate, for
femininity. where spring hats are con-
cerned. And those who can wear
them, have red currants.
A stunning hat of violet colored
hemp. with rather high crown and
wide. slightly dropping brim Is
trimmed In the new way with a huge
PLAGUE Chg as a saucer), and made
up of white currants. green and blue
black berries in massed formation
within an edge OF fine fiowers-purple
heliotrope and pink verbena: the big.
fiat berry and flower PLAGUE an
piiqued to the front of the crown.
large black straw hat has a similar
arrangement, made OF white. green
and black berries in a circle OF tiny
black flowers and green leaves.
Flowers ON Hat Brims
Nodding flowers in natural arrange
ment. and sprays OF stems and leaves
ending in blossoms are out of fashions
favor just now. The only flowers one
sees on early spring hats are small
flowers crowded together in applique
effects. There are roli-brim turbans
with violets or other small flowers APP
piled fatty, and without stems, all
over the roll brim; each flower
pressed fat with its petals outspread
and the flowers overlapping one an
other. For trimmings, feathers,
draped scarfs. arrangements OF beads
and embroideries OF straw or silk are
greatly preferred TO towers. The
straw embroideries are really wonder
full. in color and in design; great
dover motifs sprawling over brins