FASHION SHOCKS

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 76, 31 March 1934, Page 6

FASHION SHOCKS

TEA-TRAY HATS

Paris had another fashion shock recently, -states the "Daily Mail." "Tea-tray" hats have appeared. These have enormously wido brims, cut perfectly square. They arc ■ worn set straight ou the head, too, so that with their shallow crowns the effect is that of a tray precariously balanced. Wlute piquo is used.for most of these, and-tho borders of the brims arc .folded in hems which look liko the edges of a book-binding. Another shape at ■ this collection is likely to provoke almost as much discussion—a hugo" cartwheel hat with :i low crown, which is unlike any picture hat produced up to now. The fact that all these new hats are meant to be worn straight on the- brow, with perhaps only the. "slightest tilt forward, results in the'back of tho head being shown, and the mannequins therefore hod their hair there dressed in a mass ,of tiny curls. . Straw materials and straw trimmings on dresses' aro another novelty. One chiffon, evening cape had three "rows of bushy straw cads trimming the edge.