PANAMA HATS AND SCARVES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 295, 7 September 1908, Page 5

PANAMA HATS AND SCARVES.

\ That Panama hats should bo trimmed with scarves docs not strike ono as a particularly now idea, but new it apparently is in Paris. According to the French correspondent of a London paper, the French girl, who is not, as a rule, greatly addicted to the Panama, this year has arrived at tlio conclusion that it is less trying by far when trimmed with a long, soft scarf of mousselino de soie, which is arranged in clouds round tho crown, with ono end hanging low over her shoulder nearly to the waist. It can, in fact, bo put to many uses, being either brought round again as a veil, or for security against tho wind, or simply as an attractive frame to her face, and is both softening- in efFect and undoubtedly becoming. The Paisley, patterned scarf represents tho favourite, some of these being carried out in a pearly white tint with a border' of Indian pines in all shades of green, from the palest malachite to a dark oak-loaf tone, while others, again, include rainbow shades or are introduced in flaming yellows, with nasturtium and scarlet cunningly interwoven.

Broad flat brims, standing out like enormous halos round the face, aro exceedingly popular with French girls, and almost render the parasol a < superfluity. May is in high favour with the Parisienne, who wreaths her large hat with pink and white may, and threads wide pale blue' ribbon in and out among, the clumps of blossom with capital effect. Most French girls can turn their fingers and brains to good account in tho trimming of a hat, and they do it with all the 'caro and much of the intelligence of a firstrate milliner.