PARISIAN FASHIONS
HATS SMALL AND NEAT The new season’s hats now showing in Paris are very small, simply designed, and have very little adornment. Some are oblong, narrow and dipping down behind in a tail, others have width: it is merely a question of which suits the wearer the better. Brims are almost non-existent and although the smart angle is flat on the head, there is an undoubted tendency to push the hat back and show the hair line.
Claude St. Cyr, who has just made 18 new hats for Queen Elizabeth, decrees that bright coloured hats are an essential, and he is very partial to sapphire blue. Another prominent designer favours red, from cherry and geranium pink shades to ruby. The pillbox looks likely to be very popular in the coming season. Grey is the popular colour for ♦informal wear, though caramel, beige, maize, brandy and soft buff run it very close. Dark pigeon grey and steel grey velvet hats are worn for late afternoon gatherings.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27192, 9 November 1953, Page 2
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