The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-18

season. Not frocks, or SHOES, or
d tailored suits--but hats mean
sprlngtime. or autumntide as the case
may be. And 1t is information about
hats that is hardest to get in the
weeks before a season actually opens.
Milliners guard their secrets carefully.
The makers OF gowns and suits are al
ways ready and willing to talk about
coming styles and TO display advance
models Boolmakers are only too
anxious TO have it decided. weeks in
adv tnee just what kind of footwear
4 going 10 be the fashion. But mill
Iiners are chary of giving out informa-
tion they want TO make their big
splurEe on opening day and thrill the
.euIinlne world with surprtses-take
woman so off her feet, so to speak,
with the fascination of the new styles
that two or three hats must be or
dered sent home on the instant. for
fear the precious things may be
snapped up by somebody else before
one has a chance.
But several OF the most authorita
tive milliners have unlocked their
treasure-vaults and allowed models OF
special charm and style value to
escape for your delectation on today's
page. Not only southland hats are
to meet the demand for something
summary to wear where summer
breezes BLOWOUT early spring modes:
hats that are going to establish fash
ions for the months to come.
Crowns Much Larger
The tiny little hat crown. smuggling
close to the head seems to have de-
parted. All tho spring hats have
much larger crowns, and usually the
line OF the crown Is soft. with drap-
cry of one sort or another. Straw
hats have crowns entirely covered
with silk or velvet and sometimes the
material that covers the crown Is
made into a big bow that serves for
trimming, This effect is illustrated In
the turban with huge velvet bow
across the front; a most dashing hat.
ready to travel southwark on some
lucky head. Mostly velvet bow is this
small turban and the bow has a very
dashing slant indeed; up at one side,
down at the other and with the soft
folds OF velvet held under a loosely,
twisted knot. The little turban is of
mixed blue and black straw and the
velvet brim-band and smashing bow
are dark blue.
Another attractive travelling hat has
narrow rounded brim of mixed
brown straw and the crown is covered
with a bullying over-crown OF brow
taffeta A bias length OF the taffeta
Is folded into narrow trimming band
with pointed ends tied at one side and
projecting beyond the brim These
large-crowned turbans with narrow
roll brims promise to be very good
style for spring They are comfort
able to wear and are becoming to al
most every face. and they may be
trimmed in several attractive ways:
with crowns draped like the model
pictured. or with little wreaths of
flowers. leaves and grapes.
The Fascinating Empress Eugenie Hat
III Is called also ''the vamp" and
you can pick II out at once among
the hats presented today--the per-
fectly lrresistible little affair tsp-tilted
over one eve and with a shower OF
feathers hiding the crown and trailing
down to the right shoulder There Is
something IN the dlminutiye size OF
this hat It's saucy tilt, and the droop-
ing trimming that suggests headgear
worn by the lovely Empress OF the
French in the heyday at her youth
and beauty. and 50 some millner has
named the cunning thing "the EN-
press EuEcnic' style AS for Il being
also ''the vamp"-well any girl will
admit there is a vampishness about
It in conjunction with those long ear
ringsi The narrow brim has a clever
turn from up to down and, of course
the feather trimming trails at the
down side. falling toward the back of
the shoulder rather than directly over