The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-03-10

creates sweep that Is conspicuously
appropriate.
II is In the matter of trimmings, per-
haps. where the new hats excel and
show their freshness. There Ia not
much trimming, mind you-nothlng re-
sembling overcrowding-bu what Ia
there Is so perfectly arranged and
composed with the hat and fits shape
that It leaves nothing to be desired.
Ribbon, In bows and loops and ends,
is one of the favored trimmings for the
spring. and It certainly is pieasan, 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 Il. SO many fasclnat-
Ing ways that the hat with ribbon trim
ming inevitably becomes fiattering
thing to wear Then there is this new
craze for MORE, which brings with 1t
a MORE ribbon to be used on hats. One
hat among the newer ones has brlm
made entirely of this sort of ribbon,
carelessiy 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
a large and rolling brim, and Is rather
broader In proportion to most of the
hats now seen. 1t is nude of light
lsh brown straw, and then 1t has
wide taffeta peach-colored ribbon
drawn tightly over the facing of the
brlm toward the front, where at the
brim's peak 1t Is tied into stiff, up
ward standing bow. II is most UNI
usual sort of hat and very interest
ing one, though 1t is SO decidedly new
in character that one must have
temerity to wear II a. pattern for
the rest of the world to follow.
Use Of Grossrain Ribbon.
Grosgrain ribbon is used to make
whole, shaped brim turbans. II has
SO much body that almost anything
can be done with 1t anl many of the
newe: 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 fiOYt
away at one side or the other, or
ha& -
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 grosgraln
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 a Chinese
shape to 1t, pointing " 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. II is in
teresting to see these little, quite bor-
derlke turbans suddenly take 1t 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. It had a 1ridedly decorative
quality about 1t and gave the smart
est sort Of a look to the little novelty.