THAT BARE BROW!

PITFALLS OF FASHION

The leading Parisian, milliners are not all of the same mind about how the hats now in fashion are to be worn, writes a Londoner. Berets and turbans are now put on. with the sauciest, most rakish, most abandoned tilt towards tho back and side. The cloche, with its tilted, curved brim over one eye, is also worn far back, and this is to be the fashion at all seaside places. But what about tho burning rays of the sun? Eyes and complexion will suffer from this decree, and although an Irish poet tolls women they must labour to be beautiful, there is no reason why, when fashion admonishes cruelly and advises styles which leave out beauty and call only for originality, every woman should be foolish enough to obey her. Not one woman out of ten —one might say out of fifty and not far wrong—looks her best with her hat thrust back on her head and her brow bare. The very young and the very pretty, tho very slender, and the most perfectly made-up, can, at a pinch, wear hats in this way. It makes young women look old and older women look haggard. Now the bandeau is supposed to be going, and the brow will be still more naked. A few Frenchwomen with notable taste in dress have announced their intention of wearing their hats as they find they best suit them, and if they are firm in their intention and carry it out in the face of all the milliners may demand there is a chance that the autumn will bring back the charm of shade to the hat. It need not bo deep, but it should be theTe. Velvet turbans with groups of gathers and a flying wing at one side behind the ear are now being worn with jacket and dress ensembles of dark or black crepes.