Gunnison Gazette | 1909-06-25 | Page 4 | Brilliant Hues Much Liked

BRILLIANT HUES MUCH LIKED. Coarse Straw Hats Trimmed with Highly Colored Plumage Just Now in Favor. The favorite hat for a morning walk is just now the very coarse straw in a large, simple shape, trimmed with great wings of brilliant-plumaged birds. The success of a hat depends entirely entire-ly on the way the wings are placed, some of them hanging limply over the side of the brim, with a rather painful suggestion of a wounded bird, while contrasts are the mot d'order, and not infrequently these are a little startling. With the exception of the intense empire green, which is popular, the hats are generally in half-tones, dull in hue, the wings striking the only strong color-note in the toilet. Beige wings trim a soft, violine hat, yellow is placed on a blue straw, vieux bleu on beige and cherry on black. A large number of the straws this year are in the shade of corn, ripe for the sickel, and the method of lining the hat with a different color seems to be as popular as it was at the beginning begin-ning of last year. Black satin is chosen in preference to all else for the corn-colored hat, while aluminum Tagals lined with satin to match and trimmed with masses of mauve pansies, pan-sies, are very charming and effective.