TRYING ON HATS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 865, 11 July 1910, Page 3

TRYING ON HATS.

TFIR NEW FASHIONS. lien miss lots of fun merely through boiiig men, and one of their big missings comes in the way of trying on now spring hats, an occupation that causes intense joy to the normal womrfn. The now winter hat is interesting enough, but ft cannot bo compared to tlio new >pring hat, that confection of bright colours and delicate materials, with its wreaths of exquisite tlowors, that at once make you think of sminv (ms Mi.-I g:,rdeii:, such as Wellington never scp&. During tlio winter months, one lorgets how beautiful flowery, summery hats are, and it takes the lirst milium t sjiuic ,1 the season to remind ono again. .During the past few days a corner I" one large millinery department on the Quay lias been the centre of attraction for many women, for tlirrc nre. display.fi 1,1 ureat. v.wii-ty, i'liv. very newest tilings in liars, and charming many o f i.h, m aro .

■liicy are very wide, with brims wider "von than those shown early last summer. Jlany of them hove flat crowns with a "winntry-giii" effect. Those aro trimmed with a profusion—one might almost say a confusion, so many varieties arc used—of flowers, and under the brims are still more flowery wreaths. _The dome crown, rising from a very wide turned-down brim is very popular and smart, and puffed crown's are well represented. The newest novelty is the hat ol milslm, or painted chiffon. A very pretty popular one with dome crc.vn was veiled with pale mauve muslin of French d«sign and wreathed with violets, aiuitnw of rosy painted chill'on was massed with pink flowers, while a charming dome hat veiled in green figured inusliii was trimmed with huge, white ciovor, and its green foliage, Leghorn hats, with wide Hat brima and flat croivu* loud themselves to the massing ot flowers. One such hat was trimmed with wide bands of cerise velvet ribbmi, and masses of cerise flowers, and another with flat masses of lilies of the valley round the crown and under tins brim.

touches of brilliant kaleidoscopic colour are given in most unexpected hats by the introduction of Paisley silk, aa a band round the crown or a'bindintc of brim. A dark blue sLi-aw trimmed with crimson roses was encircled with a hunch of Paisley silk that gave it an individuality red 'roses alone could never give. Hats are lined with silk or muslin or velvet, and another feature is the. mixture of flowers. They may be thrown together as if they had' beei. flung on the bat by some careless Madame Butterfly intent on an "anyhow" decoration. For instance, on one wide hat of coarse straw there was no tnmmm«-i.i,t. an odd little siv-<" roses, cornflowers, forget-me-nots, and several other flowers, like the decorative posy in the corner of a very old Fashioned Christmas card. . The wise woman n-cts a!! possible en lo.vmont out of a spring mi!!-'ii"v •■•'■ h.V trying on the bats, and here she has a joy from which man is forever 'Ir-barral, the joy of seeiiif in the same ton minutes how perfectly eharmiiUT she can look, and of fimlinir m { how plain she mii/ht look if she didn't /know how to nhooan lu>r ! )n ts *K sens a fluffy Imt with nofTH n:vcrown and little clusters of rases diihbod here yind there, and though she knows it would be absurd tr> buv such a bat for herself, she put--, it -'i with a hasty glance around, and smiles defiantly at the nodding in ih" glass She trios on just the green that suits her romplnxion, Mi>.< shade r r " that she "never has been able to wear" hilt nerhpiK that dark lining will ~,n l -n all tlie difference. She laimhs with her -companion at the effect of a tremendous. lovely hat that hidps her li":«l and almost buries her shoulder ami, until she sees the next wearer whom it suits to pprfep.finn she -.■> the bat is "absurd.". Slie fiances at a woman in front of another mirror, trying on a dream of a hut that does "(it suit her a bit, and as <oon ;, s s ],., very well can she contrives to try that hat on herself, delisrhted to find ths't it might have been made for her " ■N'P. cavnfully weighs tho merits of •» dream that is awfully becoming but IM.II hardly match her favourite frock and a next best "dream" that contrasts perfectly with the frock but lardl.v suits her so admirably. ;) - ■ having made up her mind to liny r'-« one, she ceases, not to regret that she refused tlie Ml-0,.. till her new purchase comes home, and, looking -i» ' apart from all the other oharminmodels, she realises how prettv ii really , s Trying on the new hats— wiiat a joy!