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Show Shallow Crown To Be Used on Spring Hats Little has been revealed about the designs and new colors for spring hats, but several of the big dressmaking dress-making houses have shown a number num-ber of advance models which hint at a return to small, shallow crowned hata which perch precariously preca-riously on the top of the bead. It looks aa though all shades of blue and mauve will dominate spring styles, while quite a lot of dusty pink and off rose shades are shown In new light weight materials. mate-rials. From the advance styles which have been displayed It would seem that closely woven straws will be much smarter than the coarse, loose weave straws shown the last few seasons. - Trimming will mount to ths top of the head, where tufts and cock-ada cock-ada of -feathers will trim neatly tailored hate of finely woven straw. Single flowers or small bunches and bouquets sit perkily on the very top of new crowns that are graduated like thimbles, but are fitted closely and shallowly to the head. Brima are seldom straight or flat They are never large for day or street wean. For decorous little street hata are aeen tiny sailors of straw with narrow brims that turn up Jauntily In back or at one aide. The crowns often are flattened and look somewhat like a small saucepan sauce-pan turned upside down on the head. Stiff, long quills of feathers trim these plainer hats, while flowers flow-ers run riot over the dressier models. Almost every possibis form of the beret and tarn o' shanter has been exploited In the last few years, but this becoming shape la still to be seen in new straw models. It Is I close fitting and worn on the back of i the bead. |