SOME HAT NEWS
What will follow the “ bowler ” is a question many women are asking just now (says the ‘ Manchester Guardian ’). The answer would seem to be, according to a clever who showed the bowler long before it was actually taken up, the “ top hat.” This is not literally a top hat. but that typo of crown known as “ the square crown ” is shown frequently with a narrow flat brim, the crown itself being quite soft and as shallow as it can possibly be. This shape, with curled hair below and many flat loops or flat bows to give interest to the back, is really suggestive of a tailored version of Dresden china softened and modernised. Other small hats of the Glengarry typo are draped to suggest the lines of half a Rugby football, finished with flat rosettes of gathered velvet at the back to hide untidy hair. The tricorne is also shown, at its smallest, and also made with a_ wide high brim in front, which is easier to wear than the usual neat fitting. Quite new are the little shaving brush upstanding mounts of badger, goose, or cross osprey, which seem to have quite supplanted the temporarily revived ostrich plume. The colours are emerald green, royal blue, many shades of copper, mulberry, lilac, and a new subtle brown called seaweed. The materials are beaver, satin brown, plus felt, and chiffon taupe.
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Evening Star, Issue 20996, 9 January 1932, Page 20
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233SOME HAT NEWS Evening Star, Issue 20996, 9 January 1932, Page 20
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