Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-15

All the Various
Types Which Are
Popular NJ ay Be
Classed as Bonnets.
M any. w avs in
Which They May Be
Made Individually
Becoming.
by MARY MARSHALL.

" v WHETHER you spend IS q sea
AA/ son on hats or q hundred
wv times that amount one
thing Is certain, and that IN
that you cannot wear q last
seasons hat and hope to look up-to-
date. Some one has said that one
might as well wear a hat 10 years out
OF date as last years hat-so great
are the changes that have taken place
within six months in millinery fashions.
That Is slight exaggeration, OF course,
but the fact is that even hats that We
bought last Spring or in Midsummer
begin to look a trffie old-fashioned.
Not only are the new hats different,
but the way of wearing them Is diff
ferent. The woman who does not make
clean break with the past as far as
hats are concerned will have q hard
time OF IL this season.
In reviewing the new hats We speak
OF toQues. berets, tllrbanS and even of
cloches. but essentially all new hats
are bonnets-in that they are soft and
light and are worn with shallow, close
ly drawn crown brought down on the
back of the head. To attempt 10 wear
one OF the new hats drawn down over
the forehead would be as disastrous rs
trying to wear one of the new draped
dresses up to the knees or one Of the
uASooCO
line
The important thing is to realize that
these new hats are essential to smart
ness and then to get q visual impress
sion through sketches and actually see
ing the displays in the millinery shops.
All the important French n1illiners
have added interesting variations Of
the new mode. and when they make
hats for individual women they vary
them in q hundred different ways to
make them individually becoming.
The hats offered in this country are
copies or notifications of these French
creations and never before has there
been such q wide variety. II you choose
to buy your hat ready-made, your prob
lem II to ind shape that is most be-
coming. Some Of the nilliners take the
partly formed shapes Of velvet or felt
and mold them to your individual head
"a simpler process than having the
hat cut and shaped entirely to measure.
Even IL you buy your hat all finished
there are ways Of pinching it and drap-
ing 1t little here and there 80 Is to
make it individually becoming.
Let me suggest to the older woman
that she is really making . mistake
when she shows too great conservatism
this season in selecting her new hats.
She may think that the new hats are
SuttNUiE OIily W JOuh6cA WO1ttosh ySs
she may adopt with willingness the
new. more closely nodded dresses with
higher waistline and longer skirt. As
a matter Of fact, the new hats show
as becoming and appropriate possihilt-
ties to the conservative older woman a.
they do 10 Younger women. and the
new more feminine dresses most GER
tainly demand the new, more feminine
| type of hat.
The time when a simple. felt eloche
might be worn with every and any sort
of costume has passed. and though We
may not need to spend more for any
one hat, we will doubtless feel the need
! of more hats.
For sports clothes nothing is more
appropriate than one of the new berets.
which are also appropriate with tweed
suits. There are simple felt shapes.
sometimes shirred around the hrim to
give them the desired close adjustment
! that may also be worn with suits, and
for formal afternoon there are hats OF
soleii or soleii and velvet with uptsirned
brims on one side and downward
draperv on the other rs well ss the
more demure bonnet shapes.
! Copyright. 1917