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Free Lance, Volume VIII, Issue 398, 15 February 1908, Page 8

THE NEW MILLINERY. EXQUISITE CREATIONS OF LEADING PARISIAN , MILLINERS. MILLINEEY claims first place in the thoughts of all smart women, A § ain a popular fashion is the cloche hat of stretched silk or velvet who are thinking of the styles for the new season. There is with a piping or crossway band, about an inch wide, giving solidity to striking original* in 'the new creations that Paris has given to the the J°^ ci " . This ' ff f silk ' ™ th » bor ? er or P ipil * °* *?* Z^ 1 nj „, . J , „ , „ n , or ot velvet is simple but very smart; so, too, is the silk hat with wide world and there is a generous variety, for they range from the smallest gtrai hf . brim bordered with velvet and lined with shot or a ler colour close fitting toques to the hats with very wide brims slightly drooped the crQwn ratw h[h ftnd trimmed with d ed velvet or other mater ial and some almost reaching to the shoulders, so immense are the hats, d D ] umage while the decorative effects are charming in their seeming careless arrangement. Flowers are strewn with a prodigal hand, and there are Tall direc toire crowns form banks for roses, chrysanthemums or feathers galore. dahlias, while other hats are arranged with big rosettes of different The silk hat carries all before it, Taffetas principally but merveilleux shaded silks or velvet in two colours, three rosettes close together being has also been pressed into the service of the stretched silk hat, and are sufficient to trim the front and sides of a hat, so generous is the amount seen in all the most delicate colours suitable for millinery. of material put into a single rosette. Of pale blue silk is a charming hat with a wide brim, slightly up- It is pmmage everywhare that attracts the eye this season ; the turned in front, a piping of pale blue velvet edging the brim, also the most cur ious assortment of feathers of doubtful origin mingling with crown, andatwist of same encircling the base of the latter, which is the ar i s tocratic and luxurious ostrich plume, further artistically decorated with a bunch of emu feathers near the front. j Although the aforementioned stretched silk hats are among the Another smart hat is a wide brim creation in brown silk, with a leading novelties, following them closely are those with gathered brims full drapery of russet red velvet and at the left side three or four little bordered with a crossing band of plain silk and full crown with huge white birds. The brim is lined with sapphire blue panne, and the P ins of embroidered gold coloured galoon as its only ornament bandeau covered with brown tulle. Flowers are crowded on the new millinery, amongst which maraTypical of the prevailing taste is the large hat with bowed brim bout featheis are quamtl\ arranged, and a crown smothered with cogue feathers matching the felt, silk or velvet of which the hat is made, the feathers nodding gaily like the . Among the newest colours of the season is a full deep violet, also plumage on a guardsman's helmet. cinnamon brown, and rather bright greens verging on to peacock tones.