gg0'Mk MT5ECRET5 BemjI I ill $ " I 1 On the Left Is the New Lucile Mercury Hat, Opposite Is the Lucile Geyser Hat, While Below It Is Shown the Lucile "Halo" Ha! LADY DUFF-GORDON, the famous "Lucile" of London, and foremost creator of fashions in the world, writes each week the fashion article for this newspaper, presenting all (hat h newest and best in styles for well- Ladv Duff-Gordon's new Paris establishment brings her into close touch with that centre of fashion. Ladv Duff-Gordon's American establishment is at Nos. 37 nnd 39 West Fifty-seventh street. New York By LADY DUFF-GORDON (Lucile) THE Inspiration of Ascot where. If a woman wants to make a mark at all. she must be very, very am art Indeed! always seems to result In the creation crea-tion and the choice of some wonderful won-derful hats. And this year the millinery mil-linery marvels are oven more attractive at-tractive than usual. 8o that any one of those of which I am going to tell you might be depended nn to save lta wearer from the fearsome fear-some fate of looking merely ordinary, or-dinary, and, therefore, being on tlrely overlooked. In a crowd, indeed, a striking hat ts of even more advantage from the point of view of attracting at-tentlon at-tentlon than a gown which demands de-mands free space and a full length Tlew in all Its detail are to be seen and appreciated. A good many Leghorns are being used. This old-time favorite in the way of straws la gaining many new and potent attractions by reason rea-son of such schemes of trimming as, for example, an encircling wreath of giant wild roses, whose petals are made of differently and delicately shaded not not. please understand, the ordinary fine dress net, but a coarser, more canvas like variety, which can be depended on not to readily ge: limp and shapeless. shape-less. Blue and ptnk and yellow and blue, in the palest possible shadings, shad-ings, are the colors which are thus brought together in those quite beautiful blossoms and some dear little half-opened buds, while the leaves which trail between and complete the wreath are all of silk and of a still paler pink shading, this being the most becoming tint! too. of the aeropbane, which lines the brim. By the way, another novel fabric for the fashioning of roses Is broderle Anglaise. a dosen or more of those pure white flowers being clustered with so mo white gauze leaves on a big. Bhady hat, whose crown is covered with a' closely folded softness of white chiffon, which then gives place to a brim of straw, with ust a bordering bor-dering of the softer fabric, a big butterfly bow of wide satin ribbon hcldlns those flowers together. And really they need something to thus keep them in bondage, for they look almost light enough to fly away at the first breath of wind. Another Leghorn hat la wreathed round with Ivy '.eaves In alternate clusters of white and softest green, divided by bunches of little white satin berries; these Laving for background, not the rather deep yellow of the straw, but the softness soft-ness of tho mellow-toned net, whose slightly frilled fullneaa veils the brim. Still again. Imagine a Leghorn whose wide "floppy" brim has all Us fascinatingly Irregular curves and dips followed by a wide band I black velvet ribbon, whose ar I ' Y y A Lucile Demi-Toilette of White Batiste, with High Girdle and Skirt Trimmed with Lengthwise Tucks and Horizontal Puffs rangement 1 so exceedingly skilful that It has no surgestion of being stitched into position. Beyond this again, there comes a fold of widely tucked white tulle, which sllchtly overhangs and distinctly dis-tinctly softenB the nrlm. while, round tho crown, these same well-contrasted well-contrasted fabrics are again united and then finally tied Into a huge bow rather toward one elde at the back. Still another Lhorn has a brim awkwardly and lightly covered with white nlnon against which the straw Is then rolled upward to form a series of four yo1nts. For the rest, some wide white moire ribbon is folded about the crown and caught In at ono Bldo by a bunch of velvet cornflowers, all of brightest, deepest blue, whllo at the other the blue velvet blossoms are intermixed with some which are modelled in pure white muslin. There are quite a lot of these velvet flowers to be seen just now. Borne gorgeous crimson clematis Inn BZance- beng grouped into a tall bouquet at one side of a black JjJLfr hat. where there are blown s.lk petalled roses. In "dead" SZZli hn1 P,nk-a 1'ialnt and ored bio me ther anl "1 soma For example, on a black 05 straw hat. JsZr with a broad g - - y innet band of white on Its brio. there is a side bouquet of deep yellow and orange and tillent tinted roses, above which uprise straight and tall, some half-a-dozen small pure white lilies. These latter and and lovely flowers also looking particularly par-ticularly well, with black nnd yeV low marguerites or brilliantly blue cornflowers. And though all these models are of the rather wide-brimmed variety, which Is certainly beneficial to the eyes, as well as becoming to the complexion, when tho sun Is at all Inclined toassert itself, you must not for a moment imagine that the small shape Is not equally In evidence. evi-dence. For Indeed it Is very much to the fore and every day that brings us nearer to the Autumn season of styles, will see its increasing in-creasing popularity ove rthe larger models. One such dellciously piquant af-! fair is of whito moire, with corded j pipings to encircle the crown and : accentuate the slight-upward tilt at one side of the boat shaped brim, which there shows, too, the effective contrast of a black satin lining. t. Lucile Model fWlflSfflRtiuy Shows a Simple p MfWWl Scheme of Dra-pfl Dra-pfl .XFRBRiKj pery Carried I I WHS Out in Softly ffpffim Shaded Char-rneusc. Char-rneusc. An Or-W' Or-W' ental Fabric is fa f Swathed at the Waist