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Show 11 yj ' DUFF-GORDON, the famous "La- . jrafc?" . ' iv''V , i L5 "'e" kncon anc fremoat creator of J;-4.v ;SS ViCi- Dinner fashions m the world, writes each week the JS?'- ' ''Ol, BeU Hat' fashion arucle for thi newspaper, presenting aQ . :,v "iiP.' : StrlPCd S'lk Lady Duff-Gordon's Pans estabDshment bringi fe hereto close touch with that centre of fashion. By Lady Duff-Gordon. IN this song of the hat I have so many interesting thlngB to tell you that I know not where to begin. There are so very many different kinds of hats that I know not which to offer you firaL Perhaps when one gets down, to the last analysis tho Watteau chapeau Will be found to be the greatest favorite of the Spring. There is more than one shape in this class. The one with which we are f most familiar is, of course, that which Is turned up at the back, but one which will hold Just as high a place In fashion's esteem Is uptllted on the side. Such hats are trimmed with flowers or loops of ribbon And. speaking of ribbons, 1 wonder won-der how you are going to like the new lacquered ribbon which Is so much the rage Just now here ln Paris. Of course, like everything else which can be procured in the department shops. It is bound to become very common. , Personally I do not like 1L It is harsh and unpleasant, I think, therefore there-fore when I use ribbons I use the moire. It is Just as effective and far more feminine than the lacquered ribbons. Fashion Is a queer Jade, and bo-cause bo-cause of her queerness Is ever fascinating fasci-nating There never was a more feminine period than the Watteau ThlB Spring, therefore, we are utterly feminine when we place a flower-trimmed flower-trimmed hat of that period on our carefully coiffed head We wear with this a draped frock of flowered silk and present the essence of femininity femi-ninity The next hour we may turn and become thoroughly masculine in our appearance. The Louis PhiUipe Is the most chic of the so-called masculine mascu-line shapes. When trimmed with a band of stiff moire belting or of the lacquered ribbon and held In place with two hat pins the "mere man! effect Is most pronounced. |