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Show I Woman's Page French Women Wear Broadbrimmcd Hats With Evening Gowns Bare Head With Evening Dress Confined to Americans Larger Hats to be Worn This Fall and Winter The Colored Canotiere Changes in Babies' Clothes Simply Made Garments Best. J FRENCH FASHION FOR WEARING l HATS. 1M On the Normandy Coast It Is .S stninge in the lisht of othr things, that the French fashion for wear jflB lng a hat with a low gown has never I imposed itself upon Americans. One sees so much of it here where women foregather after a late dmuer at the casino to dance or to stake a little silver or much gold ou chnnce Here and there one sees American women, who lend themselves readily to French custom, wearing a broad-brimmed broad-brimmed hat of black velvet with a gown sufficiently low and handsome to serve in a box at the opera, but these women are rare Rut the habit of solng about witli bare heads, and an eveni&g vmvn is not cenfined to Americans only It is an Anglo-Saxon trait The ISng IJish women do it. nut niey make it more conspicuous by adding tiaras or marvelous jewels of some kind to the coiffure. When the French leave off their hats, they add immense aigrettes or feathers. hen the American leaves off her hat, she merely sees to it that her coiffure Ifi becoming. It Is an interes;ing racial characteristic charac-teristic to watch. One can determine nationality by it almost as much as by the voice. To wear a hat with a decollete gown is so much against the American Ameri-can idea that no smart restaurant will admit a lady on the dancing floor with one, and it is not permitted permit-ted at the play. No one could easily explain the reason for this rule except through the understanding that evening dress demands an uncovered head If the Fn nfh itoa vor nrrvnile tln.n thor.- Iwill have to be an entire recoustrue lion of public opinion Naturally the French women do noi wear hats with low frocks at balls or at dinner parties held in private houses; but the moment they leave the private for the public roof they cover their heads They are pre-eminently a people foi head ornament, almost as much so as an American Indian. The Anglo-Saxon not only prefers the head uncovered in the evening, but at all hours when it is possible. Their first idea of comfort is to get the hat off; whereas a French wom- Ian's first idea of decorum is to keep on her hat. The Velvet Hat First. The American woman over here follows the path trodden by the French woman In choosing a wide-brimmed wide-brimmed black velvet hat first. She never cared foT the small turban with its exaggerated high plumage It was not the kind of thing that suited her face or her style Now that the fashions call for a larger hat, or rather one with a brim, she 13 quite happy. She, like the Englishwoman, feels that she looks her best in something that shades her eyes and it ma be that this style will persuade her to adopt the French fashion. There are certain types of Amen cans who are delighted when an op- portunity for the wearing of evening H hats comes their way, and here one IB 6ees well known fashionables coming jH into the casino at night with a tip- WM tilted black velvet hat and a low gown; but these same women will probably omit the hat the moment they arrive in New York So strong is custom! HI There is little doubt that black vel- H vet will go undisturbed along its path. It holds the field against all newcom-H newcom-H ers It is not worn for all the hours. B these new colorful hats thai take H the name of Martlne, but which are H built by dozens by people who have H never seen the work done in the H house on the Faubourg St. Honore. H have bewitched women. And well H they might. H They are infinitely above the pana- H ma and the leghorn One especially I good-looking one worn by an English girl yesterday had a folded flat top of heavy white cotton with Byzantine stripes of red, yellow and blue across it huge stripes in splashing colors with a brim facing of dull cream silk At the extreme edge were posed two liny flowers of blue crocheted wool bedded in dark green leaves. Blow this hat was worn one of the most fashionable of outdoor sports coats; a dark green garment, halt fitting, reaching well below the waist, with Its hem turned up like the hem on a man's trousers. It was fastened in front with white pearl buttons. A very short white corduroy skirt was added, fastened down the front with flat white buttons as large as dollars. The Colored Canstiere, Each week sees more and more of the high colored flat felt hat called the canotiere. It does not hesitate ;it any tint, the more Byzantine, the better, The colors mav moderate (Vhen the cold weather comes on, but I foresee a great popularity for this special brand of hut m America this autumn, CHANGES IN BABIES' CLOTHES. "Times have changed since the days when the regulation ol" baby dress was the Mother Hubbard mod el, natliered straight widths on a snnare or round yoke. The styles fOT the little children of today chunge with each succeeding season with as much versatility as for the grownups grown-ups Back in the early sixties, babies ba-bies wore clothes almost counterparts counter-parts of their parents. The infant's frock was cut panel front with Insets of lace puffins or embroidery. The tinv shoulders, neck and arms were often left bare, the shoulder straps with small puff sleeves falling off the shoulders Quantities of petticoats suggested the hoop skirts then in vogue. "That the first consideration for the baby should he his comfort we all agree, so the simply made garments gar-ments are Hie most successful. The materials should be as fine as can be afforded." |