The Calico Rock Progress

NECKPIECE HELPS OUT HAT:
WINSOME CAPES FOR FALL

Now is woman's joy supreme, for the ostrich boa is reappearing in all its glory on the stage of fashion. This autumn and winter will test that prevailing sentiment among the fair sex that nothing quite so completes the picture as a fluffy neckpiece of one sort or another. Especially are milliners everywhere encouraging the consciousness among their clientele, that a becoming hat takes on greater becomingness if complemented with a "scrumptious" feather boa or a cunningly devised arrangement of fur, preferably monkey, either black or white. In short, ostrich boas and fanciful fur collars have become the vogue—a word to the wise be sufficient.
The effectiveness of a handsome ostrich-boa is set forth in this picture in several instances. Note the luxuriant black feather boa as worn with the stunning velvet beret, a French creation, shown to the left in this group. By the way, Paris says for the crowns of our hats, higher and higher until they reach the limit, and in this smart velvet shape we see the theory delightfully put into practice. Very pleasingly is the vogue for black and white stressed in the stylish black moire chapeau to the right with its inevitable accompaniment of an ostrich boa, this time of snow-white.
That most fetching millinery creation which tops this group is content to have as its "first aid" to becomingness a girlish high collar of gray squirrel, thus challenging ostrich with fur. Again fur competes with feather in the collarette of black monkey, worn with the large black velvet chapeau shown below to the left. 'Tis said in millinery circles that the call for large black velvet hats is insistent. In speaking of hats, velvet ones are ultra-smart, especially shirred velvet is shown in the nasturtium with cinnamon-colored model to the right.
The pink-beige hat last shown tops a feather novelty boa, the like of which is very fashionably present with newer millinery.
A cape, a cape, my kingdom for a cape. Not in precisely these words, perhaps, do the French women of fashion say it, but they suit the action to the word by ordering from their couturiers a modest cape for the autumn season to come. Just how successfully these orders are being executed by Paris stylists is told in the accompanying picture. That shirring be used in the development of the cape to the right is to be expected, because shirring has become the all-absorbing pastime of the fashionist. It enters into the making of our raiment at the slightest opportunity. Where once we tucked and plaited we shirr these days. This item in regard to shirring is one to hold in mind when planning one's autumn apparel. As to this particular cape in question it has the word "Parisian" stamped in every detail. It is made of heaviest canton crepe, and one of its outstanding style-points is the fact that it is collared with a contrasting color. A conclusive argument in favor of its usefulness is the fact that it is reversible. Ultra-smartness is written in every phase of the costume shown to the left.
Left. That a generous circular cape of plaided and striped kasha can be one of the niftiest fashion exponents, when it comes to fall wraps, is a truth attested in this model. This is a cape which invokes an urge to possess. Not only does a scarf collar give it extreme chic, but the fact that it is topped with a swagger vagabond velours hat gives it even greater prestige as strikingly bespeaking smartest mode. Just a word about the modish cloth coat dress over which it is posed. Street frocks of this strictly tailored genre express unmistakable up-to-dateness.
JULLA BOTTOMLEY