THE PICTURE HAT REVISED

Manawatu Times, Volume XLXI, Issue 3480, 14 December 1926, Page 4

THE PICTURE HAT REVISED

The picture hat is about to emerge from the darkness of.forgotten modes (says a Paris correspondent). For year's now the small hat has had it all its own way, and there are still those who say that as long as long as shingled hair is in fashion the small hat must abide.

That is true of the hat which is worn for sport and in rough weather, but the big hat will be seen wherever there is sunshine. It will not be so big as in. its former existence, but it is big compared with the small hats which wore worn last season and the season before. A Gainsborough and a Reynolds profile will again attract the artist’s eye, but modernised.

No woman of our times can live up successfully to tho age of Innocence expression.. The new-fashioned big hat gives a charming line to frame a face, but there is not so much sentimentality in the droop of the brim, not so much trimming on the crown. Feathers are not curled, ribbons are flattened, flowers ore not copied from nature’s blossoms.

Tho picture hat is gister to the small hat It has the same crispness, tho same independent lilt,, and it is, of all things, the most Parisian. The crown is soft and draped, or high and straight with a jaunty brim. It may be made in felt, in velvet, in satin, in panne, and in any colour to match the ensemble of coat and dress. The linos are clearly drawn and slender, never heavy and indefinite. A shingled head cannot carry a hat with, heavy lines. A picture hat is only worn with a dress of the same style; a silk moire, a black satin, a dress of velvet With a dresls of this order, not too short and skimpy, a picture hat looks right. With lace and chiffon, with furs, it la also good style, but not with tweed or anything which is strictly tailormade. It sits well on the head and fits closely. This hds to be, since there is no way of attaching It to the head unless strings are worn, and so far they are not. For evening, there are some new head-drelsses. Apart from the silk wig which some women wear in Paris at a ball where dress Is elaborate and picturesque, there are slender filets of pearls, of paste, and of coloured stones. Flowers over the earls, attached to a long ear-ring, turbans In lame and tulle arc sometimes seen. Feathers are cleverly fixed to droop over the ear. But whatever may be their future fate, not one of these fashions is popular now.