TAKEN FOR WREATH
SYDNEY WOMAN’S HAT SYDNEY, Sept. 28. Designs of women’s hats in Australia this spring appear, to men, more fantastic than ever. One expensive model was so cunningly camouflaged that it was mistaken this week, at a Sydney crematorium, for a wreath. A woman social worker had bought the hat, mostly ribbons and flowers, in the morning for four and a-half guineas, to wear at a cocktail party v/hich she had planned to attend after a funeral service at the crematorium. She carried the hat m a paper bag. An attendant at the crematorium said as she entered: "I v/ill take your parcel, madam. Thinking this was being done to prevent rustling of paper during the service she handed the new hat to the attendant. But at the end of the service as the coffin was about to sliciG away, she saw with dismay that her new hat was with the floral wreaths. Incapable of protesting, she was forced to watch the hat disappear with the coffin. , . ...... • . ■
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21549, 31 October 1944, Page 4
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