Show i HATS OF HALF CENTURY AGO About fifty fit years er ago a o the mt puzzling puzzling millinery confections that feminine Imaginations could conceive says Jas the Baltimore Sun were purchased for fm 1 There is a big bg difference when you yu come to consider the subject between l years ers ago and prices up in the hundreds hundres of dollars dola of the present J W IV Y C has Brittingham three re remarkable specimens of fashionable head headgear hEd headgear gear of fifty years ers ago which he be h brought from the mountains of South Carolina These Thee hats are are something like the skidoo bonnets bonnet and according to present prent day standards just as becoming One little hat was ws of or colored straw trimmed with folds foId foll of cotton coton cloth of the same shade Around the derby crown were rickrack designs of cotton coton tape and under the brim were too to rows of straw braid But tIn tH crowning cowin glory and the distinguishing touch was W a straw bird as big as your our thumb fastened on the front row of the tbt crown The hat itself Itel was not hot more than seven sven Inches long and the tho brim was s len leas than an a inch II wide Another hat bat that was once oc considered I decidedly modish moish was s a sort of miniature derby with the front frt and a back be helmet shaped shape It was of black b k velvet trimmed with narrow folds fold of cotton cloth and in the front was ws the most mot exquisite trim trimming trimming trimming ming that an antebellum belte bele could con consider sider a spray of three roses re smaller than han I your our finger fastened faste awkwardly on ot on it This hat was extremely expensive and cost cst SUi The Te most mot elaborate hat of or the three was a h helmet lm t creation of brown broW velvet elvet and cotton coto cloth and the only trimming was as a flat fat bow of the thc same material at the te front and back When hen we Te consider that these thee hats hat were ouch on actually worn and admired and con oon considered considered very eo becoming we Wt feel sure that time doe does make a change abo I |