Fewer Accessories

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31633, 20 March 1968, Page 2

Fewer Accessories

Accessories were once a vital part of being well dressed. Many girls, mostly the younger ones, now think shoes, gloves and hats are leu important than the dress they are wearing. But it is just not true. No dress can look anything like its best without the proper accessories to pay it an appropriate compliment. Yet, how many young girls do you see in a hat nowadays? Hairstyles take pre-eminence, that is why. The milliner today gets very small chance of a lookin, which is why so many women wear those squashed flies in spider’s web things and call them “hats.” Any excuse is termed a hat, these days. A circlet of flowers, or a stupid pillbox pinned on top of a chignon—they are just milliners’ excuses to get some business.

The Bonnie beret is the most becoming "hat,” since it can be worn at all angles—aslant one ear, flapping down the back of the head, or angled over the nose. As for gloves, they are still worn, but so much is cut out of the leather or fabric that,

come summer, hands will tan into the strangest looking patterns!

Shoes, 1 am relieved to report, are still worn. Barefoot beauties like Sandie Shaw are few and far between. And Sandie keeps her “natural look” for the stage. At least, I have never seen her on a shopping spree in bare feet.