THE SUMMER HAT IN PARIS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1174, 8 July 1911, Page 11

THE SUMMER HAT IN PARIS.

AN ENDLESS VARIETY. (By "Dominica.") Paris has officially welcomed the arrival of summer, and though it is yet hardly ■warm enough for their light frocks, the «hops and streets are full already of.the new summer hats—hats which are exceedingly pretty and becoming, aud which have not yet shown any tendency to exaggeration in size or shape. .The large hats are not too large; t.he email hats not so small as to sacrifice smallness to eccentricity, as was certainly dono with many of the winter hats. The first thing ono notices is.the popularity of the. turned-up brim. It may bo a Napoleonic brim turned right up over the crown to meet the brim from : tho back; it may be turned up at one sitieand caught tightly to the # crown with a rosette, or buckle, or wing; it may simply turn up at the edge like a. tray, or ..turn up sharply with a great swoep at hack or side, or front—anywhere as

long as it tnrns up, a fancy that may bo a reaction from the long tyranny of_ the "cloche" shape. Some of the hats, it is I true-wide shady hats with large wido crowns—have perfectly flat brims, and others of the Pierrette or ; flower r potBhaped varieties have no brims worth speaking of-such as they are they curl up all round. The Importance of the Brim. ■As a natural result', rather, more attention' is being paid to the trimming of the .brim, and many of tho hats are lined with straw of a contrasting colour, or with velvet or silk: ' A pretty blue hat, turned up at the sidei hud'nn inch and a half wide lining of black silk pulled on, about an inch from the edge of the brim, with a very pretty soft effect, and in the rapid glance I caught as- a big black hat passed in tke.slreet'l fancy that its' pink silk lining was put on in the same way. The brim for two' inches from the edge was faced with.black straw,.and then came'the delicate colour. . Tho black hat. trimmed with a coleur ,Js having a great vogue just now, and though it is not so absolutely safe for all occasions'as tho ever-useful, all-black hat, it is not nearly so. dull, and is distinctly moTe' desirablo than a hat of white or coloured straw. Often, of course, it .is trimmed'with striped ribbon, or with black and a colour, but very often simply with coloured flowers, and one of tho prettiest I have seen—a wide large-crown-ed shape— was massed with pale green foliage and small pink roses put on flatly all over the crown. Many of tho crowns are covered with such a mat of flowers and foliage, this being tho only trimming. A very handsome model of mole-coloured straw with wide brim lined with brown velvet, turning up sharply at tho back, was trimmed with dark red anemones and brown and white striped ribbon. The anemones covered the crown flatly in front, .mil a narrow flat band of them formed a finish to the huge bows of-ribbon at the back, which extended the full width of the hat. The crown of another hat in much the same stylo was swathed with ribbon, finishing in a great bow of four loops at the back, whilo a little touch of colour was given by a trail of tiny roses placed across the crown of the hat in front, just above the folded silk. A smart molecoloured hat of the popular Napoleon shape, which one sees with variations everywhere, was faced—one can hardly rail it lined—with brown velvet, and finished with a great flat rosette of little red roses, encircled with dark blue for-get-me-nots and foliage.Ribbon Greatly Used. Huge bows of ribbon are seen on hats low and wide, or narrow and high, and