River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-03-02

ture Hat; Hat Made of Match
Sticks in Red and Black.
hats now seen. 1t is made of light
ish brown straw, and then it has
wide taffeta peach-colored ribbon
drawn tightly over the facing of the
brim's peak it is tied into stiff, up
ward standing bow. 1t Is a most I'M
usual sort of hat aud very interest
ing one, though 1t is so decidedly new
in character that one must have
temerity to wear 1t a. pattern for
the rest of the world to follow.
Use of Grosgrain Ribbon.
Grosgrain ribbon is used to make
whole, shaped brim turbans. 1t has
so much body that almost anything
can be done with it and many of the
newer hats will be found to have their
starting point in grosgrain, with a
little straw to help them out. Some
Of these hats succeed In looking like
miniature airplaneS, so winglike are
the arrangements of ribbon that float
away at one side or the other. or
sometimes from both sides, of the
closely fitting crown.
Ribbon that is narrow and plated
and formed into various sorts of
rosettes is another favorite type of
trimming, and, like the grosgrain
brims just described, these succeed in
making the hat more or less, once
they start out to trim 1t. A yellow
hat of straw with quite Chinese
shape to 1t, pointing u ove- the eyes,
has a series of black plated rosettes
arranged in regular succession around
Its brim.
Then satin ribbon is used In loops
upon loops, dropping down at one side
from hats that are stiff and unrelent-
ing in all other directions. 1t is in
teresting to see these little, quite bor-
derlike turbans suddenly take it into
their heads to show all that squashy
ribbon on one side, and, besides CIV
ing to the hat jaunty quality to be-
come the face, the ribbon carries out
the design most gracefully.
Repeating the idea from many of
the spring frocks, ribbon Is again
formed into points and semi-circles to
trim the rounded brims of some of
the hats. For instance, round the up
ward turning and round brim of lit
ribbon points peeping from behind the
brim's edge. This made the hat, for
there was no other form of trimming
to be seen, and, while the ribbon was
exactly the same tone as the straw of
the hat, it had tecidedly decorative
quality about 1t and gave the smart
est sort of a look to the little novelty.
other Styles of Hats.
A hat made of black satin had
black satin ribbon drawn over its
crown into two stiff bows, which jut.
ted out at the right side. And another
hat of the same foundation material
had stiff bow of black ribbon set
ecross the back, so that Its sweep
showed from the front as an outline
for that portion of the silhouette.
Beads are having q great opportun-
ity as far as the newer spring hats
are concerned. There is nothing OBJ
vious or at all passe about the way
in which they are handled, but the
rule seems to be that, IL originality
GENES into the game at all, beads and
bangles and spangles are quite the
incest thing to use. For instance,
most of the beads used are large and
ornamental and clear as crystal,
WI ether they are in colors or in pure
white. There are loop" of them over
the ears or across the front of the hat
or across the back, and often these
loops hang down and away from the
hat. so that they create the impression
of chains about the neck rather than
about the hat.