VEILING HATS

Evening Star, Issue 22596, 13 March 1937, Page 27

VEILING HATS

A PREDOMINANT MILLINERY NOTE New York is veiling hats, and so is Paris, which means that_ the rest of the world will fall in line and veil hats too. That is, with the exception of London. London will veil some hats,

but among the number of now hats that make an almost daily appearance in this now-acclaimed world fashion centre, there will be hats of all types, varieties, and shapes. London’s most recent addition to millinery news is a small black toque with a long scarf of colourful chiffon hanging from the back of the crown. Costume films such as ‘ llonmo and Juliet ’ and ‘ As You Like It,’ with their startlingly becoming headdresses, are undoubtedly influencing hats as well as other fashions. The peaked Juliet cap, with the long veil falling from the crown, is too becoming in line to escape the ever-searching eyes of the world’s milliners. The London vogue of the hanging scarf of chiffon is no doubt inspired by this, but it is only the beginning of a fashion for peaked toques set well back on the head. With these the possibilities of veil and chiffon scarf arrangements are innumerable. Paul Samuel, of Paris, has evolved a creation covering a tiny toque of chenille fur. Yards of stiff veil around the edges hang in long and short folds down the back from the top of the crown, and a wide brim of net juts out over the face. White Veils with Black. Generally, the French trend is to use discretion with veiling, just as with all clothes, which achieve distinction by daring smplcty. The smart Frenchwoman Ikes a tiny piece of veiling over one eye or forming a fringe on her hare forehead, and sometimes she uses a coarse white mesh veil as the only contrast with a black toque and black frock. New York thinks that the less discretion used with veiling the smarter the hat, and is showing some lovely models with veiling massed on the brow on hats receding from the face, and in some instances entirely obliterating the toque with spotted veiling arranged in tufts and falling straight down over the face to the shoulders. Even brimmed hats are smothered with veiling, frequently of a contrasting colour, and the veil hangs down over the face and the heir at the back, so that the hat requires no other trimming. Not that trimming is a bar to the use of veils. Quilled and feathered hats are covered in tho same way, and look as though the veil has been, thrown on usually as a trimming. I

Veils Trim Hats. So extensively is veiling used as a trimming that in some of the new hats it is shown in an entirely new way, as an essential part of the hat. One smart cocktail hat designed for Marlene Dietrich is comprised entirely of layers and layers of black horsehair net waving high aerpss the top of the head like a cockscomb, and bunched very low on the brow. Another hat designed for Marlene Dietrich is like a starfish, and has many points of black velvet veiled all over in fine ciro net. The hat is worn on on© side of the head, and the points of net, which protrude beyond the velvet, servo as an eye-veil.