HOW NOT TO WEAR IT

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 135, 5 December 1930, Page 13

HOW NOT TO WEAR IT

"UNEASY LIES THE HEAD"

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," but what about the head that wears a beret'? Nine out of ten should never sleep at all, according to "Odette," of the London "Daily Mail," who finds that lamentably few succeed in finding the "just right beret," which, in disgust, she confines to three—those that are too small, those that are too large, and those that are too ornate. Women having large faces with heavy jowls almost invariably "fall" for the smallest and tightest berets that can be found —and wear them well off. the brow, she complains. They frequently introduce a thin, squiggly curl that emphasises, rather than breaks up, the expansiveness of the face. Next you have the opposite extreme, j Women with high cheekbones and very small, pointed chins rarely content themselves with anything but the largest specimen procurable, and generally arrange it so that it accentuates the top-heavy effect of their heads. Too many women arrange their berets by a general rule rather than by individual judgment. It is true that a tilted beret will often give a piquant expression to a face with irregular features, but it must be remembered that the effect depends upon the nature of the irregularity and the extent of tho tilt. Tho beret that appears to be dripping off the back of the head is all very well on a really youthful wearer with a retrousse nose, but on an older and more severe type of face it merely reminds one of the chonille nets in which the more worthy of our grandmothers were wont to confine their bade hair. Worst of all, to "Odette's" mind, is. the tight beret worn just above the greatest circumference of a \cry bald and bulging brow. "It keeps the onlooker in a constant state of nervous apprehension," she says, "One always feels that it would pop skyward with, a sharp report should its wearer ever be struck by an extra largo thought, arid one expends untold mental energy, in preventing anything of the sort from happening. A beret, Worn, correctly, should always have the forehead line adjusted to balance the jaw line."