VOGUE OF SMALL HATS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 17 December 1927, Page 17

VOGUE OF SMALL HATS.

Paris'certainly favours the small hat, which is no longer hard, but soft and becoming. After all, wide brims are not practical for winter, though occasionally' one sees a small, one-sided brim. The draped felts, valours and velvet are rendered most becoming. The hats that stand out as really interesting are wonderfully pulled, 1 draped, and looped, so that they fit the head, and frame the face in a truly flattering way. The feather fantasies are still used, and curled rings of coq or ostrich are most intriguing, but more generally worn arc the “ears” of felt or velvet, or a very simple ornament in gold,' silver, or polished steel. Pearl is used, and, of course, a beautiful .iewol or enamel is always a pleasant vague. Satin, all black and shining, is used bv Rcboux, and Agnes mixes a shining felt with soft velvet. The cloche, in many varieties; continues to bo chic wear. This autumn it is the dressmaker’s pleasure to mould fabric to the arms of their clients so closely that they wonder how any woman manages to put their arms in the skin-tight sleeve is only exceeded by the marvel that, having got in, she can ever get out. The saleswoman knows discretion in the matter of her clients’ shortcomings, but when a woman hears her dressmaker declare that . the tight sleeve is not madame’s style, that a little fulness in the upper part, a puff at the wrist, a slashing here or there, or the introduction of a frill from elbow to wrist will be an improvement, she knows that her arms have been measured and found wanting. | A visit to tho beauty parlor and a ’course in arm treatment is the next