Masculine Trend In Dior’s Autumn Hats

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29871, 11 July 1962, Page 2

Masculine Trend In Dior’s Autumn Hats

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ZALIA THOMAS

LONDON, July 3

Christian Dior hats, shown in London recently, had a masculine air and were divided into four main styles: "Chapeau claque,” with an opera-hat crown and a small brilm; “Aladin,’’ which is designed entirely to cover the hair; "Gavroche,” a softer version of the beret with a side tilt and a gamin look; and “Troubadour,’’ a straight copy of the wandering minstrel’s hat.

Designed for dinner, cocktail and resSanirant wear were tiny, pert creations in brilliant, liqueur-coloured velvets set straight on the head. Designed for after-ski wear were high fur guardsmen’s bearskins with long furry ends tying under the chin. This idea was also used for travelling hats—handy on a windy aerodrome or dockside.

Many of the hats had a "toy soldier” air about them with their tall crowns and tiny peaks. Fur hats are still popular but with a new, rounder silhouette. They range from moderately inexpensive models in lamb, to a mag-

nificent trilby in ranch mink, with a brim of golden diadem mink, selling in London for 85 guineas. Used with great effect for a bridal headdress was a White mink pill-box, topped with a tiny crown of pearls and diamante.