Show RETlRX OF THE PICTURESQUE 1 New York Sept ISrStepping Iitt > an ultrafashionable Andon shop two weeks ago I asked the little milliner to show me the very smartest hat designed design-ed for the opening season With the ubiquitous Thank you of the English saleswoman regardless nt whether you or she is doing the favor my request was granted I It was a Gainsborough Had one Clt the famous famed ladles stepped down from the wall of the Academy and of fered her picturesque hat for sale the resemblance could not have been mare perfect And this shape hejoncl all question is to be the cornet head coverIng for the winter weather Vevet is I the material preferred though felt of course is always in vogue At the right side set at a coquetish angle are a hunch of curled ostrich tips whIe two narrow btnJs nf velvet overlaid with jet i = a sera np fe encircle the crown and JntJy a brH liant jet buckle is deontlvely I placed completing a charming confetti3n The hat must be tilted a hit to the left and underneath the rIght side of the brim must be added a long earl bow of light velvet that eontistg pret tily with the hair and complexion Nine women out of every ten are lr lighted at the revival of this fashion J for the picturesque Is always the most becoming S The hat I saw was of black elvet and black tips the aet crysais ng twO junk velvet bands while the how on the under side was of the same mater ial i J ialIt It was sold and sent home later to aNew a-New York woman and will 1 probably be the first one worn here although orders were already being fled for American buyers I HAL rAK |