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Tight Little Velvet Toques All Show Ribbon Trimmings By Janet ‘HWY are doing many of the hats thie season with velvet finish and ribbon trimmings. They are Httle, tight hats with a great deal of shaping and only a little bit of otmming. ‘The pictures on this page two manners of shaping these little hats, They fall down over tho eye, they have a perkiness that juts awn from the head, and they have a com bination of formality and informality that makes them attractive with al- most any eort of costume with whici Yeu choose to wear them On one of these hats there is a loone and irregular bow or rosette of silver rbon of @ very narrow sort Its loops fall over one side of the toque in a@ particularly becoming manner and the silver mass at that ono sid» succeeds in giving to that hat all of ite style and suitapility to the modern dress and its newness of design. The other hat shows a more formal sort of arrangement of ribbon and tite also ie done in silver with the ribbon folded and arranged In a very formal sort of round motif until It be comes the salient feature of thut par- (@ealar hat. There scoms to be a demand wit the modern hat to show this modi cum of sparkle so that there shall be no loophole for the hat to become or d@ipary in any sense or in any way relegated to the class of dowdy ones which may not heve had so great an inkling of the demands of the present ‘The hate themsstves are shaped to follow the outlines of: the head and show Ce The Decorative Touch Goes on Dresses, To the Beauty of All. - By Margery Wells. sign, The patches of coior are made from very bright colored bits of Iuv tyne and you know how vivid are the tints in which that matertal 1s dyed. They are placed, one next to the other, in the manner of @ patchworlt quilt, and then they are placed along the seams and lines of the frock so that they constitute nothing more than EE touch of handwork about the along the ample surfaces there are clothes of the new season te the 4Ny Zmount of patches of embroldery ; distributed. Negligees and evening thing that gives them thelr chlo pocxs ure also embroidered and in and thetr style. A dress can be very many diverso and. buautiful ways. dark and sober, very practical and Hats come in for thelr share, and efficient in every other particular, but for the accessories of modern dress it must, somowhere about its design, they are nothing really but masses of have added a spot or many spots of embroidery done in more or less gor. geous and lovély ways. an artistle outline brilliantly colored embroidery. There aro head bands, there are ‘Then the patches are put together, It is remarkable to see what tho belts, there are cuffs, there are col- porrowing the stitch from our grand- merest touch of this brilliant decora- jars, there are hat brims and hat mothers who made the quilts, with a tion can do’for a frock. It may be facings, there are fans, there 2 bright colored lino of woolen thread only the smallest of medallions, or {t combs, Aj! of them show portions of go that the whole becomes a pattern may be only a band about the waist, embroidery and some of them are en- of extremely good looking detalls and but {t usually becomes so expressive 4 tirely composed of one artistic stitch 4 whole effect that does miracles w thing that, out of the plainest of arter another, so arranged ns to glVe the gown of such p simple dresses there emerges, by reason of a gorgeous lay of color and a fine proportions this one little badge, something that fouling of decoration. The colors are red and orange, bine ts quite distinctive and individually indicative of the character of the girl who wears it. Dresses are not the only sections of fashion which are treated to the hand- somencas of brilliant embroldertes. Coats come in for thetr share, and and green, touches of yellow and so black, all of which are placed agains the background of dark blue which serves to set them off at thelr best. The coats that are a part of the present-day fashions show all sorts of trimmings of embrotdery besides their fur bands and collars and cuffs and decorations galore. The fact is that Embroidery on the One- Piece Dress. One frock which the American girl seems unwilling ever to discard is the one-plege dress. She clings to it with just ax? much determination as ever her ancestors clung to thelr rights for freedom in another way. Every sea- the modern coat is the means of ex- son, when there seems a possibility pressing all sorts of trimming ideas that it may sink into the discard of andy in this particular embrolderien come in for their share of attention. On the coat in the picture you will see narrow and exquisite bands of loved clothes that are passe, it raises its head in another gulso and, by some miracle, t becomes just as fashionable as it was during tho last season, handwork creating an outline and On the frock in the picture Mnes supplying a color interest. In this of embroidery have bean used to give particular instance there has been no to a blue serge all of style and de- extra application of fur, but the lines Winslow. the dressing of the hair, They fall way down at one aide and are lifted almost imperceptibly on the other side, They show onc eye as a matter of concession, but usually the other eye is entirely hidden from view and there is only the slightest amount of hair left to tell the story that, under the hat, there is any sort of a colffure extant. However, that colffure is the less important, for it indi- the outline of the hat, and with- out It as a foundation the hat would amount to nothing The black velvet hats that show tome sparkle trimming are the favorites of the present season, They are good looking with drees clothes and they can be worn with street or more informal clothes with the same striking effect and the samo story of fashionable expression, They are shaped according to the season's de mands to the contour of your own in- dividual facial outlines, but they are 43 smart as can be and they have that feeling of simplicity which runs through all the season's fashions wit! rtling degree Trimming at one larity. seems to be reg side favored, It either hangs down or ts posed low upon the brim of the hat, so that it has some relation with the neckline as well as with the position and pose of the head and its crowning glory of hair, And this trimming usually expresses a repetition of the color that is used {n the gown or the wrap, doing ao in a subtle fashion that ties it to the costume, but, at the same time, leaves {t free to express ite own individual portion in the scheme of things, Negligees and Evening Frocks and Adds SL EE ee ONS PUTT Coats, Hats, mo rer Rig Q A color have been left to do their work entirely unmolested. But this {8 the merest example of the thing that can be done in thr way of coats, They are the interest ing fashion points of the day and whatever you can do to them to make them attractive ts a feather tn your cap in the way of style Hats Have Embroidered Facings. Even on hats embrolde as one of the leading ures. And it 1s done, too, in all the bright colors that embroidery naturally repre- sents, There is, instance, the hat tn the pieture, which has its facing used for its salient feature. There, on a background of some light and bril- liant shade, there are imposed Unes of velvet ribbon in a narrow width, so that the whole becomes the exhibi- tion of an embroidered design, stands out 15 24 4 a TOP, LEFT—A CUBIST DE- SIGN OF BRIGHT COLORED APPLIQUED PATCHES MAKES THE TRIMMING FOR A DARK- LY TRIMMED CREPE FROCK. CENTRE — EMBROIDERED FACINGS FOR ROLL-BRIMMED HATS TAKE THIER PLACE IN FASHION RIGHT—EMBROIDERY TRIMS. A_WINTER COAT QUITE AS EFFECTIVELY AS ANY DRESS. BELOW, LEFT — TRIMMED WiTH COPPER AND 8iILVER RIBBON TIED IN A LOOSELY ARTISTIC BOW, RIGHT—SILVER RIBBON IS FOLDED AND WOUND TIGHT- LY INTO A ROSETTE TO TRIM THE SIDE OF A CHIC VELVET TOQUE. A 4 4 ¢ att eg