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Show Headwear Foreshadowing Winter fit x f& The melancholy days have come, hut so have the new fall hats, ami they hove brought along with them a sure cure for the blues. It is just out of the question to try on this enticing new millinery and go on regretting the passing of summer at the same time, for winter is foreshadowed and welcomed by the loveliest of head-wear. head-wear. The war has thrown Americans on their own resources in designing, to a greater extent than ever before; It Is bard to tell just how much we owe to our own "home-grown" milliners, but there cannot be two opinions about the new hats. They are excellent from every standpoint. There are shapes iliat are large and there are small hats, and all of them are graceful. Lines are wonderful and trimmings do not interfere with them or blur them. Brims are Irregular, crowns are 'ft. materials are rich and trimmings simple. Much handcraft hand-craft nppofvs in the making of those hats and in the making of their trimmings. trim-mings. The predominating colors are quiet, but nevertheless brilliance Is universal in the season's models. group of representative hats is pictured above. The shapes have style nnd becomlngness to recommend them and include the principal tyirvs of hats to be worn during the coming season. At the top a hat of dark blue panne velvet Is faced "lib long-napped beaver bea-ver and h-ts a band of beaver about the crown. There Is a silk tassclnf ! the tame color for the tmnm.m.'. The brim is wider at the right side than anywhere ele and has a beautiful upward up-ward roll to the left. Just below is a lovely hat in dark brown satin with the entire underbrim covered with tightly curled ostrich I (lues, also in brown. These very short 1 curled Hues look like Persian lamb fur. I The bat is finished with a smart, wired bow and in this shape the brim widens I at the left. I The big picture hat at the right Is I of black panne velvet faced with plain I velvet. There is not much more to say of it except that its brim is soft, its lines marvelously becoming and its crown embroidered with wheat and flowers in heavy silk lloss. At the other side of the group a small, droop-ing-brimmed hat of porcelain blue felt makes one waver in allegiance to big hats. The felt Is overlaid with crepe j georgette in the same color and for trimming there is a generous bow of wide grosgrain ribbon, mat.'liing the hat in color. None of these shapes have rigid brims or crowns each of them Is simply sim-ply trimmed and each proclaims itself the work of some skilled ami clever milliner. |