Show WHY 0 o aro A Ape Ape- HAT BANDS t tRO RO RO t e 1 Inscriptions dis discovered on 1 Ithe v alls tei pies Ples It Is apparent that as far bac f as B. B C. C the 1 Egyptian women used a baud band with streamers to fasten their hair t tying this In a bow at the back backor or side This style was retained by many p people ople through many centuries and In the time Fourteenth century it was used as a fillet merely fillet merely a straight band without streamers which held the hair away awny from th forehead and the eyes It was th fillet Itself an echo of ot ottIle the tIle fashions of thousands of years ago which gave rite rile to the stream stream- ered headdresses which were so I much In vogue ogue during the reign of ot James I I. I when we ire jare told End Endymion Porter wore his wife's diamond necklace on his hat during a torr tor In Spain but It appeared like paste beside the gorgeousness gorgeousness gor gor- of time tile duke of Buckingham who wore the Mirror of France the finest diamond in England with with a little black feather on the side of his hat This passion for expensive headgear passed with the w waning lUlng of the styles of ot bright colors In mens men's clothing clothing but but the hatband vas v-as retained retained re rev tamed because of ot Its decorative e qualIty quality ity and ond because men have become accustomed accustomed accustomed ac ac- ac- ac through thousands of years seeing it worn In one form or another mother Copyright by the Wheeler Syndicate Inc |