Show spring hat bright spot on horizon by CHERIE CHER IE NIC NICHOLAS HOLAS 4 KR v I 1 S 4 I 1 BUY yourself a new spring hat and turn the dirge of winter into a joyous spring song bright spots on the horizon are the fashion firsts now showing in millinery previews which Is not if figuratively speaking but literally true for the new hats are going in for color in a big way I 1 it Is to smile at the wee size of many of them not much larger than your hand are early arrivals from paris go hat hunting and prove it for yourself the less the hat the more the chic so designers are telling us how to anchor these diminutive let eye eve filling bits of millinery on oil the head at just the most fetching lilt and tilt aye the trick ask your milliner it takes experience to acquire the knack we admit hut but up come veils to tile the rescued rescue 1 they tone up a hat bat no matter how diminutive and make it look fit veils in countless number adorn the new hats it Is a frolicsome mood they are in flying every which way sometimes pretending they are veils when they flioy are really trimming they make pretty head headgear ear look prettier to the point of fascination flowers tool which Is important news to be sure there have been and rumors ot of allow rs but chii time lime milliners declare they are a sure thin thing it Is not only that flowers Is flowers on oil the new hats but really and nd truly news about them Is their novel positioning perky bouquet dropped atop crowns or slanted athwart forehead lines at dashing incline or posing on bandeaux or standing at attention at the front thus the new lower flower treatments repent repeat and repeat while we started out telling of the of some of the new hats please do not conclude that every new spring model has been reduced to postage stamp size on the contrary some of the smartest numbers on the style program have brims shallow crowned sailors are all tile the go especially the breton types which are arc shown in felt or stitched silk and the latest swagger note Is 19 the breton made of gay patent leat leather ber then too the hat with a visor made of silk quilted or stitched clied Is very popular young girls are charmed with the idea of the new rose ose 0 of f the ranch hat bat with its wide round rolled up brim and that which captures fancy most of all its chin strap of fancy cord also in this cliss is the new argentina type which likewise boasts a chin strap As to tile the new swagger soft mannish felts their vogue is assured we a are re following up our statement about hats of Lilliput lilliputian lan size by including two such in the accompanying illustration to the right in group Is a paris model which goes to verify this new trend it Is a toque of dotted grosgrain trimmed at the back with a feather and a veil which Is not a veil however this bow of open mesh conveys an important message of veil ing tied in bows and we might add matching bows at the throat aie cited in fashion reports to the left is another wee toque as fashion decrees for spring A range flange of geraniums and the inevitable little veil do the trimming act the off the face hat above proclaims the existing flair for gay color it Is a bright chinese red straw Han Ban dand fow boware are of black belting ribbon the print gown is black and white A very smart sli allow navy straw breton concludes the group the bouquet atop the crown and the inset about the headline are made of colored leather 0 western newspaper Newa paper union |