Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-07
BY MARY MARSHALL.

" HE big change In millinery
has not come. 1t doesn't
even appear distantly on the
Il far-off horizon. Any sort OF
spyglass that you as q
fashion prophet may have devised
will probably fail to reveal It. In
fact, although there are new tricks
and new tendencies, and the list. of
new materials, smart trimmings,
fashionable shapes, etc, shows
changes here and there, there Is
nothing at all revolutionary to be
found.
1t would undoubtedly be profit
able thing for the milliners II the
big change did come. Women would
discard all their hats on hand and
they would have to buy more than
they do now when last years hat.
II not in bad condition, may be worn
occasionally. They would have TO
start all over as far as hats are con-
cerned But really the milliners have
no one to thank but themselves 1or
this situation. For the past rev sea
sons they have been making hats tina
so completely satisfied and pleased the
women who wear them that there
has been no desire for a chanse
Don't you find 1t true that most
women like hats as they are, an6
go back to hats as they were in 1880
or 1900 or 1910. or any other time!
Perhaps the strongest complaint
that is made against the modern ma
is that frequently II is TOO small
Women who have not chosen to nave
their hair cut and who, perchance,
have fairly large heads. weep when
trying to get hats large enough In the
crown to fit them. From the point O.
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woman was bobbed or had her hair
80 much trimmed out that she might
us well have had 1t shorn. The
woman who was not of this class APP
parently wasn't worth considering
But apparently the makers OF hats
found they were mistaken. And now
almost every large millinery shop has
special means of providing for the
woman who needs large-head size.
Meantime, the shapes and trim
ming of hats continue to be chosen
solely for the benefit OF the shingled
and bobbed ma jority. Large shapes
that were promised IL months ago
are no nearer finding general favor
now than then. and the reason gener
ally given is that women with shorn
hair do not look well in a wide
trimmed hat. Whether or not the
Short-haired women exceed those with
long hair in actual numbers, they do
surpass them in fashion influence
Your milliner and hatmaker, having
been convinced that long haired WON
en- still exist, make hats with large
crowns, but they perSiStently design
only hats that would be worn to ad
vantage by the woman with bobbe'
hair.
The sources Of inspiration for the
shapes in hats that have been brought
forward for late Winter and Spring
are wide. indeed. If you want some
thing rather regal and majestic. there
. is a shape called after Henry II and
another after Henry III. Louis XVI
shapes are still considered smart. and.
Of course, there Is Napoleon, whose
hats have undoubtedly supplied the
milliners with moro inspiration than
those OF any other monarch in the
world.
The influential French milliners
never grow tired-of late years at
least-of the pleasing lines Of the
beret, headdress that originated with
the Basque peasants and that was
taken thence to be the informal head
gear Of painters and art students In
Paris. Reboux has again made this
time-honored beret famous. This sea
son it Is a very plant draped beret
any one In. this country we are per-
haps wise to refer to 1t as a tam.
though that smacks more Of Scotland
than of Southern France. However.
you hear quite as much OF Reboux's
new tam as Of Reboux's beret-though
they are identical.
Then there is the new chefs beret-