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10 THE INDEX, Saturday, March 3, 1928
E a r h j Signs O f S p r i n g
What so important, when a season is waning, as a new cliapeau;
Or new lootwear? Or anu up-to-tke minute accessory?
bu Blanche Sears Emerson
O N E of the most pathetic
conditions of the between
season time is the
one that has to do with "trying
to get along" until a new mode is
seasonable. Yet the very best
of us are inclined that way, forgetting
the important fact that
a hat less, or fewer details will
not materially affect a wardrobe
wholly new; while a smart new
chapeau, or a pair of new shoes
will smarten, not only one's wellworn
wardrobe, but one's morale
as well—especially, the hat! It
will rouse one's interest in life
as no other article of apparel can
do, and it is no longer correct to
wait until Easter for the smartening
influence. Something new,
to brighten up something old, is
a duty, and when it happens, as
this year, that the new models
are exceptionally fetching, there
isn't an excuse for refusing to
do that duty.
The new season will report
progress in every way, whether
it be in general, or special fashions.
Practically every characteristic
applicable to things in
general is found in the new hats
—many different fabrics and
colors, or shades of them; a
widely varying silhouette; clever
manipulation of materials; and a
diverse interpretation of the
theme we have come to know as
feminine. Always fashion is
going somewhere, and it is with
this trend that we have to do at
any between-season time. We
approach the subject with zest,
for we like the road that fashion
is traveling, for it is toward
beauty, not away from it; and it
finds expression, when it comes
to millinery, in laces; in flowers;
in intriguing wisps of veiling; in
feathers and brushes and the
many fine things that are used,
with restraint, for trimming.
The hat we buy right now will
be a between-season affair, suitable
to a season ending and another
beginning. The new
"shapes" make pliable fabrics
imperative, for upon that quality
the success of the designer depends.
There are silks, especial­
ly grosgrain, that have this
characteristic; and there are
crepes, satins and felts, as well.
Then there are certain straws
that seem to be correct, either in
combination, or as trimming for
the other materials. But felt is,
beyond every other material, important,
for it is always correct,
and, therefore, always safe. It
may be one, two, or even three
colors, in the modernistic way,
or it may be combined with
straw, the latter an unmistakeable
Spring touch against a Winter
background. This is a logical
between-season combination.
The straws that resemble
linen are in demand, among
them sisol and bakou important.
And celophane, very glossy, is .
used, sometimes trimmed with
cire ribbon. It would seem that
shiny effects, both in the hat
and the trimming, are a new
note. But it will be the lines of
the new models that will intrigue
us most, for they are, if
ever lines were, broken! One
hears talk of the "eye-brow" silhouette,
seen in a roguish model
with a pert little rabbit's ear
over one eye. There are skull
caps galore that twist and turn
in intriguing ways, one with a
twisted halo flange that is different.
There is real ingenuity
in the lower crown; in the hat
moulded close to the head and
cut away decisively over one
eye; in brims rolled off the face
in a lengthened front effect.
There are some small felt hats
that fit so closely that they resemble
a bob! They are to be
had in some very gay colors—
fur coat hats, we call them.
Then there are some adorable
hats, designed for formal purposes,
of feathers and flowers.
One model, a skull cap affair, is
made of tiny lacquered feather
curls, sewn closely together—
the result looks very like a
shingled, but ringleted head.
Still another hat, for afternoon
tea, is made of flowers. It's
close-fitting, too, and may be of
violets, or, still newer, of primroses,
and it will have a shoulder
boutonniere to match. For evening
wear there is a gleaming little
cap made wholly of sequins,
fitting snug to the head in lines
that have been carefully shaped
to the individual, and worn with
a tulle scarf.
Which leads, in the approved
rhetorical form of unity, coherence
and emphasis—to the subject
of the scarf! We have been
flirting, off and on, for many
seasons, with this detail, and it
is wholly in the spirit of the
trend toward effects that are far
removed from either boyishness
or mannishness. But this season
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the idea is incorporated into our
fashions in several ways—as a
detail of the garment itself, or
as a separate accessory. Draperies
and scarfs and capes and
jabots—these are all details of a
mode growing daily more intricate,
and the fur-less coat, as
well as many of the sports models
in frocks and wraps, find the
scarf collar a satisfactory style.
Fluttering bits of material tell a
story that is interesting reading.
The separate scarf is a kerchief,
either square or triangular,
and it is most amazing what
can be done with a piece of silk
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