NEW HAT SHAPES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 230, 11 September 1934, Page 8

NEW HAT SHAPES

LONGER HAIR TO BE WORN. Women will have to make up their minds to a drastic change in.hairdressing for the cofjiing season as longer hair is coming in. It is the new hats which are responsible for the change. Nearly as flat as pancakes often with the merest semblance of a crown, the new hats tilt forward on the nose, leaving the whole of the back of the head completely exposed. The obvious solution was, of course, to balance the effect by letting the hair grow, and some of the smartest women, in anticipation, are wearing their hair in a roll on the nape of the neck or brushing it back in a neat cluster of curls. For most people an extra three or four inches is long enough. If women like the new vogue for a big hat, they can try the effect of one which is nothing less than an outsize in berets with a wavy brim pulled well over the eyes, or one of the new large flat velvet picture hats bedecked with silky paradise plumes. Milliners are doing their best to help them keep these hats on, not only with the usual elastic band but also with a triangular flap to fit over the back hair. Even the most autocratic of milliners must provide alternatives and, lor those who like a hat that is a hat, there are the new little toques inspired by a mandarin’s hat, button and all, and with the back filled in by two fluffy leathers, the quills of which sweep across Ibe front and stick out over the forehead. Feathers will be the most important ’trimmings this season. Vue hat has a group of tiny birds nestling on the crown, and another little ostrich plume lapping the front of the back-turned brim like a wave; while ospreys and paradis.- plumes —real and imitation are favourites, and felt and velvet are the popular matetials to be used. The Flexible Rimless Spectacles are now the vogue, and rimless lenses are the most dainty,’ so have your glasses prepared in this up-to-ilatc form. IL M. Bennett, Optician.. Hastings Street, Napier *