SPRING MILLINERY.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8782, 11 July 1914, Page 12

SPRING MILLINERY.

A visit to To Arc House millinery show rooms just now will reveal some lovely spring models just arrived from London and Paris. The prevailing style is decidedly tho plateau shape, and all the newest hats have a high band, either at,the back or side.. One lovely example is a tete-do-ncgro straw, bunched at tho back, with two lovely blue feathers, one sweeping across the brim to the back, and the other bunched into the turned-up portion. Then a Leghorn plateau, covered with white stocks and pink roses, with rose ribbon filled in under the brim, is a charming model. Another, Of hay green tagel, is covered with lilac, while a black pedal straw is entirely covered with tiny field flowers and large red, blue, and white tulips. Of a different shape, but very smart, is a dark brown straw, very high at one side, while two feathers at the back curl round on either side. One is of royal blue and- the other deep red. Another hat in a new style is of white tagel, the shape almost tricorne, and caught together over the crown with on© of the new aeroplane, bows at tho back in moire ribbon, and a small pink posy on tho edge. Quito new are hats of grenadine. One example was in violet grenadine over tiel colour, with violet and tiel mercury wings in front; and some of the tartan hats are to bo seen, the sailor shape predominating. Pompoms are being revived, and a sailor shape in white, with pink grenadine round the crown, has a large pink pompom hack and front. In another hat this “ fore-and-aft ” effect is carried out in tho small mercury wings, also much seen on the new shapes. Tulle, of course, is to be seen, and in black a pretty example had an unlined crown, with a pink rose on the brim, and a narrow hand of ribbon round the crown, while another had discarded any trimming at all round the crown, and had, only a bunch of roses and wheat-ears at tho back. New, but rather hard in effect, was a toque of jot, wonderfully made of tiny sequins, while a really smart and effective black hat had a trimming of scarlet wheat-ears and roses and tulle; and another of coral pink straw reversed the order, having a trimming of black forget-me-nots, and black and pink striped ribbon bows under the turned-up brim at the back.