The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1922-03-24


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II Is in the matter Of trimmings, per-
haps, where the new hats excel and
show their freshness. There Is not
much trimming, mind you-nothing re-
sembling overcrowding-but what Is
there is so perfectly arranged and
composed with the hat and Its shape
that II leaves nothing TO be desired.
Ribbon, In bows and loops and ends.
is one of the favored trimmings for, the
sprilg, and II certainly Is pleasant to
see this being used to so great an ex-
tent. Women Always find ribbons be-
coming. They car be twisted and
turned and pulled l. so many fascinat-
Ing ways that the hat with ribbon trim
ming inevitably becomes flattering
thing to wear. Then there Is this new
craze for MORE, which brings with 1t
MORE ribbon to be used on hats. One
hat among the newer ones has brim
made entirely of this sort of ribbon,
carelessly pulled into the crown to
form softly rolling brim. Over the
left ear the 5rim disappears almost
entirely and there twO-wired pointed
ends Of the ribbon stick straight out
into the air. The softly folded crown
Is then made In velvet and the hat Is
complete,
Another ribbon-trimmed hat shows
large and rolling brim, and Is rather
broader In proportion to most OF the
hats now seen. II is made of light,
ish brown straw, and then 1t has
wide taffeta peach-colored ribbon
drawn tightly over the facing of the
brim toward the front. where at the
brim's peak II Is tied into a stiff, up
ward standing bow. 1t is a most UNI
usual sort of hat and "a 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 1t and many of the
newer hats will be found to have their
starting point in grosgrain. with
little straw to help them out. Some
of these hats succeed In looking like
miniature airplanes, so wingike 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 ont to trim 1t. A yellow
hat of straw with quite Chinese
shape to 1t, pointing u owe 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. It is in
teresting to see these little. quite bor-
derlike turbans suddenly take II 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
tie red hat there was row Of red
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, II had a >cidedly decorative
quality about II and gave the smart
est sort of look to the little novelty.