never been so really interesting. It is given even a larger brim, which gives more of an individual air. The brim, in fact, counts a great deal on hats just now; even the toque, which is still to the fore for the morning and for a certain type of sports suit, shows signs of growing some kind of brim, even though it is usually bent back against the crown. To have a hat and a scarf or jabot to match its trimming is one of the latest of fashion conceits. For instance, a cloche seen, which dips a little over the ear and has a short brim over the forehead, is in Chartreuse felt, and its trimming is of black satin. The scarf to match is in crepe georgette in both colours. Flexible straws will be very popular when tho warmer weather comes in. Their success is an established fact, so absolute that it appears that nothing short of an entire change in the mode will dislodge them. The fact that most of the new hats seem j to be tight-fitting caps, turbans, or cloches, or a mixture of all three—

strange though this may seem —is enough to account for. the popularity of flexible straws, for soft, supple materials are essential for their success. Milliners need, straws which may bo folded, pleated, or bent at will—henco the success of all the straws which belong to the Luciole type, which is very soft and rather shiny.