Show fur and fur claths cloths reign in millinery BY way of variety two hata are shown here having pressed crowns that are not covered to look soft the pretty sailor shape ot velvet has a round crown and graceful slightly rolling brim all very smooth and fin asbed looking shapes of this character are blocked and covered in factories where by machinery and steam velvet Is adjusted to the frame without a wrinkle or at least without any that attract atten alon these bats are really marvels of skill in workmanship the trimming la of the simplest character a collar of fur with brush of fur standing at the front and having an ear of velvet as its background the velvet Is supported by a loop of bonnet wire inserted in it with its base sewed to the body ot the hat this Is one of the few hats which the home milliner may undertake to trim for herself such hats are not plentiful at present for this Is a sea son of workroom millinery that Is millinery made in millinery shops but when a shape Is bought ready covered and sometimes ready lined one needs only to follow the picture in placing such trimming as this hat calls for it will not be found hard to do A plush or as it la called now a tur cloth hat Is shown alsi and although it Is a pressed shape covered with plush by hand it Is not beyond the possibilities ot the home milliner there Is no attempt to cover the crown with exact smoothness but a circle of plush Is cut out and laid over the shape and the fullness at the bane of the crown laid in plaits at intervals about it the brim Is covered separately with plush cut to fit it in shape and Is lined on the side next the crown with silk A clever little touch of style Is achieved by the extension of the brim at the left front over the right side in the effect of a strap the end ia rounded and brought up above the top of the brim at the right front it Is apparently held in place by a bilk cord through which it Is thrust at the side an embroidered ornament serves to mount a cluster of pea cock feathers not the eyes to the brim they spring out toward the back and complete a very novel and very pretty bit of headwear JULIA bottomley BOTTOM LEv |