MISS WRONG MISS RIGHT

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 154, 27 March 1937, Page IV (Supplement)

MISS WRONG MISS RIGHT

The other day a young qian was heard io remark, “What extraordinary things women wear on their heads.” He spoke with horrified surprise as he gazed at an attractive-looking woman wearing a fashionable but unbecoming hat. Not every woman deserves that remark. because some know the type of hat that becomes them. It does not mailer within reason how much money you spend on your clothes provided you are willing to spend an adequate amount of thought. ** The hats in these sketches will prove this idea at once. Look, first, at Miss Wrong with the long nose, who has been careless enough to choose a high hat of the fez or Persian type. At tlie expenditure of a little thought aml no more money she could have found the becoming felt worn by Miss Right with the creased crown and turned-up brim with a deep peak over one eye, which gives her face the correct, proportions. Youthful Miss Wrong in the next sketch has obviously been childishly foolish to choose the kind of hat that makes her plump little face look like a pudding. The same face can be changed from the ridiculous to the distinguished by it tallish draped felt cap with a quill to give it added height, and. incidentally, by the added length of the hair which is pulled forward over the cheeks. The third Miss Wrong has clearly lost .all sense of proportion by leaving her intellectual but bulging brow naked under a halo brim. Her face cries out for the tall-crowned hat that Miss Right is wearing. The girl who looks best iu the halo type of hat is the one with the kind of face that one sees in the early Italian paintings of angels, with the smooth brow, the eyes set far apart, small features, and a modestly receding chin. English girls often have this kind of fa ee. These girls can also wear the Plantagenet cap which is tall and slightly pointed at the back, trimmed with a veil which can. be worn in two or three different ways. The high square crowns with wide brims which may be turned up at the sides and at the back, but are turned down in front, look well on the women whose noses and chins are inclined to be long. The clear-cut face of the business woman who wears tailor-mades looks best in the medium-sized hats with crowns creased either square or scooped out down the centre, and the flat brims turned up at the edges in the Mexican style. The older woman looks charming in the little draped velvet cap with the brim turned down goftly over the face and pompons of fur or silk to flatter her features.