Choosing The Right Hat

Press, Volume C, Issue 29526, 30 May 1961, Page 2

Choosing The Right Hat

[By EVE J

The funny thing about hats is that women seem to have a yen for the wrong ones. Have you noticed how the long-nosed. longfaeed woman gives herself a “witehy” look with a hat that is too tall?

The close, round hat often surmounts a moon face. The hard, square hat sate squarely over the square-jawed face Turned-up brims invariably have a retrousse nose echoing the line. You see tiny hats sitting atop women with large faces and too big hats further diminishing the small face. Hats can be bonnetshaped, shovel, basin, flowerpot. plate or fez-shaped. But do not follow the decrees of Dame Fashion too blindly, for although we all have two eyes, a nose and a mouth placed more or less to a pattern in a more or less ovalshaped face, no two faces are really alike. A high fashion style that suits one woman

will look quite wrong on another with different features. So as woman to woman, do take into account your height and proportions as well as the shape of your face when choosing a hat And remember that a hat should not only be an attractive head-covering. but. above all else, a charming frame for the face.