Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-09
Return of .Cloche IS
Foreshadowed for
Coming S e a SON
Many S y | e S AMI
Many Colors Make,
Choosing of the New.
Hat an Easy Matter.
BY MARY MARSHALL.

~ TRAVIS so supple and withal so
firm that they may be handled
like felts. felts so soft that they
~ can be draped and folded like
fabrics, and fabrics that are as
fashion right for hats as either straw
or felt lend an almost INFINITE variety
to the new hats for late Winter and
Spring. And this variety Of material Ii
matched with variety Of shapes that
gives to us a wider scope for choice in
millinery fashions than has ever been
possible before.
For your further encouragement in
choosing hat that Is entirely becoming
there is the fact that there are no one
or two smart colors for Spring. You
will not be tempted to buy hat OF
fuchsia or mustard or periwinkle blue or
any of the other rather trying colors
that sometimes present themselves as
fashions choice in early Spring. This
season fashion bids us choose q hat
that matches or harmonizes with suit
or coat-and distinction Ii gained by
smartness of shape rather than by
striking color.
The return of the cloche shape Is
millinery event that will be hailed with
approval by many women who have
found the extreme off-the-face shapes
difficult to wear. These new cloches
have the advantages Of the cloche of .
few seasons ago, but they are actually
quite different-more different than the
casual observer realizes unless she COM
mares one with one Of the old cloches
slowed away in box Of discarded hats.
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THE new cloche is designed to be
worn further back on the head and
the line of the crown shows a graceful
upward curve from the back to the
kar ed ,A
cloches are long enough to shade the
sides Of the face, and the crowns are
gracefully rounded with q low contour
at the front. There is good deal Of the
poke about all of them.
For resort wear some of these revived
pokes are made Of stiffened linen to
match or blend with the color of linen
dresses or suits. Sometimes there Is .
combination of materials straw
crown with pique brirn, straw crown
with felt brin or q straw crown par
TALLY covered with felt.
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CTRAW undoubtedly will be worn
earlier this season than 1t has been
in recent seasons, but there are light
weight felts that will be chosen by many
women for the late Winter and early
Spring hat for sports or street wear.
Fabric hats may be chosen to bridge the
gap between cold weather and warm
weather fashions and even velvet n
made to give. Just the right touch for
the early Spring hat. .
! Very charming are some Of the new
| turhans Of ribbon, many Of which are
finished with bowor loops at the back
that give . hattering background to the
face. ss8s
Varied and de6idedly feminine a. the
new hats certainly are. they show little
or no added trimming In fact, It is
not through revival of trimming that
hats have became more feminine and
more alluring, but through clever choice
and arrangement Of materials. Some
| OF the sTnartest OF the resort hats show
. narrow ribbon hand and bow as their
only trimming. A small ornament may
be added TO the side Of the hat, Q
small feather or wooden butterfly
Narrow bands naturally take precedent
of those Of wide ribbon since the front
Of the crowns usually curves back 80
that . wide band would be out Of the
question.
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