| Show SPRING STYLES S IN WITH SNOW Gay Bonnets and Delicate Fabrics Fill Fiji the o of Down Downtown Downtown town stores STRIKING DESIGNS SHOWN COLORS OF THE RAINBOW ARE AR ARIN IN EVIDENCE Despite the snowfall yesterday th the spring Is 15 already much in evidence In the shops The windows are gay with the summer fabrics and the bats are already dreams ot of the balmy June days with their roses and note nots They are not doomed to waste their sweetness on the desert air either for tor yesterday morning one large sh shop p sold as many as twenty twentythree twentythree three of the most extreme and exclusive sive alve styles The first day that was available from the innumerable social functions of the past few weeks was set apart for church and incidentally for shop shopping shopping ping and no sooner was the devotion done than the fair sex betook them to the mirrors and the trying ordeal of the hat proposition The hats are a trifle more startling than ever before They range of course through all shapes and sIzes but the decided preference is for the extremely small sailor set on stilts as asit asit it were to the back and one side and tilted far over the nose The fore effect seen in the tall fall styles are are greatly exaggerated and some of the sailors are all back rim with a sudden termination at the front fron t Maline Is In Favor Whatever nay may be said of 01 the form there can be no fault found with the colors They are all there And some sometimes sometimes times they are all there in one hat Dresden shades predominate but the colors range through the rainbow and away beyond Maline is to be used extensively which means that those hats are to be worn only a week or so at the most for maUne is the most perishable of materials One sailor whIch is of white chip has a deep with Or a triple row of miniature rc es around it and great chous of ma maUne maline line Une beneath the brim and at one side rising to a height of nine inches above bove the crown Another sailor of bright green straw is so small as to be nearly all crown and jauntily placed at one side are two wings of green and pink with a rosette of silk circled by the minla minia miniature ture tun roses In pink These are however the simplest styles the more elaborate ones having havinga a variety of trimmings of all mater materials materials suitable according to old fashion fashioned ed notions for all ail seasons of the year One hat of Alice Ailee blue which by the way retains its popularity in spite of Mrs change Is of fine Neapolitan braid with a mass of roses of the same shade beneath the brim and an aigrette of pure white rising from the very front sidewise across the low crown A hat of the exact 1830 style except for the under part which tilts it up is of straw colored leghorn with the crown and brim of that period En Encircling Encircling circling the crown is a wreath of pink ro roses es and this Is fastened in the back backwith backwith with an old buckle The hat might have come down intact but for the trimming beneath the brim a thing unknown in those days New Nw Summer Fabrics The summer fabrics are going so rapidly that some of the more popular will wUl soon be out of stock The prefer preference preference ence Is given tl this s year to the white and black effects but the delicate colors will wUl all be popular Fine bat lawns mullen and silky nth tures with linen hold their own with the mercerized goods Everything promises to be thinner than ever this year the waists showing a decided tendency toward the elImination of every kind but the lingerie so with strIps or yokes of fine lace or em The departments devoted to the he sale aale of these accessories are crowded all day long these days with shoppers matching laces and selecting materials for the swIshy things which will nm form torm a part of the sum summers summers mers gayety |
