NEW STYLES OF HATS TO COMPETE WITH THE BERET.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 April 1931, Page 6

NEW STYLES OF HATS TO COMPETE WITH THE BERET.

Hats at the moment are entering a new phase in Paris,, and trimmings play an important role on the new Eeboux models.

It is fascinating to watch deft fingers moulding black felt into small, smooth-fitting hats under a swathed motif here —or a pucker there, as though it were a piece of chiffon. Apart from this neat type of hat that is so easy to wear with fur collars stiffer brims and little intricacies commence to wear down*the ordinary character of berets and bonnets, which arc being slowly ousted by new cap fittings and turban rolls. More accurate head fitting indicate a recapitulation of the very shallow crowned mode, suggesting a bandeau line across the forehead, under a scooped out tilt. The scooped out effect is still evident in brimmed hats, but less exaggerated through this rejection, and continues to frame , the face from a high one-sided forehead line showing an opposite droop swooping on to the right half of the neck.

Green Tones Favoured. —The Eeboux line is infinitely more true, and being inspired by the Italian Primitives, evolves a simple picturesque air that has not been exploited in picot straw up-to-date. Green in different tones is favoured, one model in emerald with the crown and downward side movement delicately ornamental by a narrow swathe and pendant drop of soft curled ostrich, a minetes fringe of which is stitched into a section of the brim where it tilts over the face.

A black and white checked turban hat for late afternoon or evening wear, with a great chou of black and white tulle posed at one side, defines another kind of forehead fitting. Eye veils are. being pursued as an elegant characteristic of smart afternoon hats.