AUTUMN MILLINERY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 78, 2 April 1932, Page 4 (Supplement)

AUTUMN MILLINERY.

VARIETY THE KEYNOTE. 1 THE OVER-THE-EYE TILT. Fashions change like the wind. One season we have drooping brims; the next there are none at all, and we find ourselves gallantly wearing what might be termed skull caps. The beret is still a leading type, and its present silhouette is the beret at its smartest tipped over one eye, and a saucy quill erect at the side or back. Then it takes on a new line and apes the Scotch bonnet. Of this order the Glengarry cap is the favourite. The modernised Watteau, in felt, with loops in pleatings of velvet to fill in its back and side is such a delightful style for the flapper and older woman that it will .be as popular next spring as it is this autumn. Made in soft shiny straws and raised high on the head at the back, with the sides filled in with bright flowers, it is as feminine as the most feminine Victorian heart could wish, but so trim, for not a curl must be out of line, that it satisfies the most modern. The Victorian influence is still with us, but the little tip-tilted sailors assume a dashing air, as worn by the young person of 1932. The angle is the thing, and the law of gravity is in danger. The modern hat is not cut to be worn squarely on the head—it positively must be tipped, no matter who the wearer is.

Standardisation is dead and variety Is tile keynote of the present coming styles. It is the best thing that has happened to the millinery industry for many years, and it gives women the eliance they look for to improve and express their own type in their own particular way. If your milliner cannot give you individual styles, change her. She is not a true exponent of the 1932 millinery. Remember that it is the hat which frames the face and enhances or detracts from its wearer's beauty, and millinery, in it's infinite variety, can make a personality sophisticated or demure, according to the type chosen. Hairdressers will rejoice with the milliner that neat and well-groomed heads are necessary for the modern hat, and the Watteau, beret, or Victorian styles depend on a correctly dressed head for their success in life.