A FASHION LETTER.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 October 1931, Page 3

A FASHION LETTER.

(Copyright. All Bights Beserved), Commencing 'with this issue is a series of newsy . letters from Miss Carmel Leroy to a New Zealand friend. Miss Leroy, who is

living on the Continent, wields a. deft pen, and we look for many interesting observations from her?. Here is letter the first —on the new derby hat for women. . Vienna, 3rd Sept. My Dear, I’m almost breathless. What a scuffling.'and a ruffling of feathers never was the ostrich so puffed up since Grandma’s day. Now that we women have filched another of man’s habilaments. (this time it’s his bowler) and Vienna, London and Paris say ostrich feathers are de riguer, merchants are ransacking their store shelves and lofts to unearth long-forgotten boxes from Africa. They tell me that for years (ever since bdas ceased to sweep and cascade across and about our heads) ostrich farmers looked very down in the pocketbook. Now —someone has said derbies—but with ostrich feathers—so here we are. Revolution is with the milliners. They say faltering, flowing, headgear is of the old order. My dear, but how quite RIGHT and how smart they are (the bowlers, I mean). Annabelle’s is like a dainty inverted sahcer set at a forty-five degree angle over the right side of the head —up on both sides and dipped ,at front and back. The tiniest of brims offers a dinky little ledge for the feathers — uncurled —or small curly tips. Then there are those long, fluffy plumes" starting in, say* black and finishing in white. Exquisite? Oh, my dear —man makes !so little of HIS denby; we’ve made EVERYTHING of ours. And the jolly part of it is that this newest idea will help the Empire’s ostriches to keep up and doing. What does,-New Zealand think of them (the derbies I mean) ?