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Show HATS EMPHASIZE HIGH CROWNS; ENSEMBLE SUITS FOR SPRING NO We cannot buy a little shape, pin a small Mower or feather on It, and call ourselves suitably hatted for this spring. Even when it looks simple, the hat of today, upon examination, examina-tion, reveals that It Is the work of professionals. pro-fessionals. Hut few bats even look simple It is the mode for them to look intricate and to display ingenious, painstaking and beautiful workmanship workman-ship in decorations that are put on with tailored exactness. The vogue for elaboration, which necessitates expert workmanship, la tfM ? & f Wall tf r" a 4 HV Feature High Crowns and Trimming. reflected in the five hats pictured here. They show also something of the variety va-riety In shapes and new ideas in trimming. trim-ming. At the top a hat of faille silk has a smoothly covered crown overlaid with a fancy cellophane braid and a fine plaiting on the upper brim. A pert ribbon how is mounted at the top. The demure bonnet below it, at the f, 1925. Western Newspaper Union.) left, Is made of black straw cloth with a collar of narrow ribbon in three high colors, braided together. A cluster of roses Is mounted at the side and long ends of the ribbon fall from under them. There is a strong demand for black hats trimmed In high colors. At the right a hat of bengaline sill; has an applique roselte motif posed at each side, made of satin-covered cord and a satin-lined sill; how. Only narrow ribbon, straw braid lind expert workmanship are needed to make the hat with beehive crown, shown at the center of the group. The Now that style shows and fashion parades are the order of the day, unci often of the evening, their enraptured enrap-tured feminine audiences note many variations of the ensemble suit. These variations testify to the enthusiasm It is creating everywhere and the widening widen-ing of its sphere of usefulness. The ensemble stilt appears In plain, tailored tail-ored types, made of dependable cloths, for utility; It Is made with great snc-ce snc-ce s of sports fabrics, but It flourishes at Its best In the class of formal or costume suits, In silks. Double-faced crepes, crepe de clime, bengaline faille and printed silks make the sumptuous models of which we think bv day and dream bv night, until we acquire one of them. This variety in fabrics is matched by an equal variety In decoration. In doublerfaoed materials the use of reverse re-verse surface is a noteworthy feature of designs in which these materials are used for the coat and In combination with other fabrics for the dress that ;oes with the coat. Printed silks are wonderfully effective in these suits and generally make the frock and furnish the coat lining, as in the suit pictured. pic-tured. Often t lie frock is a combination combina-tion of printed sill; with the coat material, ma-terial, but in the suit illustrated the entile frock is of printed silk, with trimming of hands of faille silk In black, bordered with white. The printed pattern shows gray merging with black, with touches of red, on a white ground, and the coat is of black faille, lined to match the dress, and repeating the band trimming on Its turned-hack cuffs. Coats in ensemble suits vary a great deal in length but the majority .of them ZL Wi I 1 iJ i - r"1? It f 1 1 K v U 5 ; I c i, ' i t 1 . J 1 b 1 u-'& j Shows Tull-Length Coat. crown is I'obh'd over at the top ;uid a , tuft of loops springs from the fold. Few I of the tall crowns are rigid. The silk ' turban that linishes the illustration j lias a wide coronet covered w ith ap-1 ap-1 plique Mower and fruit motifs. Some of tlu-.e applique trimmings may be j bought ready made and the clever home milliner might undertake thli littt wilii good chance of succciiS. I measure anywhere beiween tbree-q-iai iters to full liugili, as shown in Hie ' pieture. There an- many colorful and - unusual etlei is produced by combina I lions of f;ih:-irs and introduction of embroideries em-broideries in enctabie suits. .Ww triniuiir.g are eon!an::y introiiuced. so that there is endless variation in them. .1 I LIA in TTi iMI.KY. (W. IS 25. Vi-rii N-b:u.tr L'o'.m.J |