Evening star., 1925-02-01
MlinerS Have Agreed on the Apex Trimming and Pea
BY MARY MARSHALL.


~ EFORE Winter had officially
~ begun certain things were
settled regarding the fashion
IL of hats next Spring. On the
18th &C December Lewis of
Paris had his first Spring showing
and there and then it became appar-
eat TO many that the peaked crown
or trimming to carry out the peaked
idea was to be retained for Spring
There was a little question about
this, especially on this side of the
Atlantic where the peaked hat when
first introduced seemed almost as un-
becoming as had the high, square
crowned hat a few months earlier
This harsh judgment seems to have
been softened. Is it because the ex-
tremes have been modified or be-
cause we had simply grown accus-
/ toned to the peak?
So the rule for the making OF
Spring millinery seems to be to do
\ something to the top of the bat
either to pinch 1t SO as to give It a
ridge or point at the top or to place
your trimming, bow of ribbon now
ers, feathers, at the apex.
SO far as Lewis Is concerned. there
Is no other place to trim haf. Here
and there in the collections Of hats
for Spring you may be able to find
dropping down over the cheek, but
this Will be the exception.
In more ways than one flowers
hold very high place in tae mill
Rlinery planned for Spring.
Already the shop windowN have
made familiar the little felt hats
trimmed only with lunches Of flow
ers at the top. Two large flowers
/ placed back to back at the apex are
Il rt
is rather surprising, until you are
used to it. a birds head placed
right in the center of the high
crown of a hat is a trick originated
hv Lewis this season. With the
Il peaked hat we have a new set Of
+ names for the shapes-among them
Il Jester, jockey and clown.
For the woman who refuses to
wear a peak of any sort the turban
a good choice, and turbans have
Hnever been smarter than at the pres
II lent time. often they are of the eve
ming variety, but street hats are also
made up in the turban shapes. Even
they show little influence OF the hat
that ends in a point, for the drapery
is often drawn upward toward the
4 center, down at the ears SO as to
form the outline of a very broad A
over the face. These turbans are
\ usually made of satin for day time,
while for evening cloth of gold is the
chosen fabric.
The word bonnet may before long
4 be revived in the millinery world.
This is interesting since for so many
years no one not speaking facetiously
has meant anything but an infants
! head covering by this old time word.
! But for the sunny Winter resorts
both in France and America the
! French modistes have been making
small, close-fitting satin hats that
they call bonnets.
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HIN spite of the general houseclean-
ing process that has recently taken
place in the realm of millinery with
the scrapping of any number of
shapes, pokes have survived.
AS we see them now they are very
picturesque affairs, with high crowns
and wide at the sides, with scarcely
4 any brim at the back, or an upturned
brim at the back. They are especi-
3ally interesting when made of straw.
And now we have quite a new list
8of words to use in connection with
1.-THE new shapes. The position and
HGirondin shapes have been forgotten,
but we talk of clowns and testers,
FOOLS and the fishermans caps. 1t
may be that the original inspira tion
of peaked headgear was derived from
\ the warriors coats of arms. There
have been caSOue-shaDed hats for