FLOWERS TO THE FORE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 228, 25 August 1938, Page 16

FLOWERS TO THE FORE.

Flowers will gaily decorate our hats this season, says a Paris correspondent. They are placed either in big bunches on the front of hats or well ranged, stem up, all around the crown of the new straw hat, whose broad brim is slightly turned up in the Breton manner, a wide ribbon knotted on the front catching all the stems. In fact, this harvest of flowers has brought about the reappearance of higher crowns on certain broad-brimmed hats so that these may oner various graceful ways of setting the blossoms. One has a convex vase-like crown wherein are set two bunches of flowers whose stems break out on each side like long needles. And there is also the pyramid toque covered with a multitude of tiny flowers of different colours. Ribbons are generally mixed with flowers and many a time help to fix hats steady on the head, as they are placed well forward. Beside these hats with an abundance of flowers a great Parisian milliner has created numerous sober little hats; one of them is entirely open-worked; another, in paillasson. forms two hats, a skull-cap around which runs a twiste.d navy blue peter sham, flowing at the back and a turn ed-up forming a basket effect placed well in front of the head. Yet another, a little tilted flat toque in moire and straw, is I very neat; it is a quite round cap; two short ends of ribbons are set. on one of the sides, which makes it very juvenile; the spotted veil adheres to the face and is knotted simply flowing at the back. Neat turn-ed-ups are very much in favour, but the flat capeline seems to take the lead. And though famous Parisian milliners make a large number of summer hats in straw, stitched organdie, chiffon, printed materials, they give felt the most important place. We shall see them in pastels mixed with another warm colour, blue and bordeaux for instance. '