Show popular midwinter I 1 models in new mil R nery i g Z ai k at v E two as aa pretty hats as have bave been developed this season fire pictured here they are designed for midwinter but from them one may draw a ome interesting conclusions for spring they evidence very fine workmanship they are handmade hand made and como come under tho the meaning of that phra phrase e 0 real millinery which one hears BO o often nowadays hut but wh what at marks them most moat distinctly as belonging to a new order to la the very notable simplicity of treatment in the matter of trimming it Is an artful simplicity requiring much art to produce with such success shapes are so beautiful in themselves that lines must riot not be lost by trimming the shape Is tho the thing there la Is nothing to conceal about any good one hence the simple management of trimmings A handmade hand made velvet hat bat Is shown in figure 1 it ills Is of black velvet faced with one of the now new creper in white there Is a shirred sherred collar of lace about the crown the brim allows itself an eccentricity at the back it has baa an upturned cape under which white ostrich plumes tipped with gray shading into black are placed they seem beem to nestle there blending the hat into the figure of the wearer an embossed velvet la Is employed employ ed in the pretty hat bat shown in figuro figure 2 such a covering presupposed Presuppose a the sim aim blest trimming therefore nothing could be better than the pott pure white teather feather satay which appears to be thrust through a slash in the velvet it la Is fastened with stitches placed with great care so that they are hidden in the velvet leaf which la Is raised on the surface of the tha bat covering this la Is commendable millinery it requires fine alne needlework the shapes aro are notably moderate in size alze it to la quite likely that size will dwindle and that the springwell spring will find us affecting small close fitting headwear JULIA BOTTOMLEY |