CHILDREN'S MILLINERY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18380, 21 April 1923, Page 4 (Supplement)

CHILDREN'S MILLINERY.

Fabric hats are much in demand for children's wear, and are available in such variety of textures and colourings that it is possible to obtain millinery of this kind to match exactly coats of soft lightweight wool, duvetyn, and tweed. New shapes of tucked velvet are very "dressy," and most attractive are those trimmed with "pneumatic" rolls of Angora wool. •

Duvetyn needs a special mention because it is so fashionable this.autumn for hats made to suit children coats. Some of these hats are draped and others of the squash persuasion have sweeping, upturned brims. Others of the bell-shape variety are hand-painted, and : another decora ive resource is the piping and binding that find their way into the scheme of millinery for children as well, as their elders. "Plumage" that never was acquainted with any sort of bird, since it is made of fabric, is a favourite trimming in the semblance of quills and tail feathers. One hat was of navy blue felt bound with soft grey ribbon and hung with streamers of the same material, which were thrust through" the felt. This hat matched the gabardine frock worn by its juvenile owner in colour and ribbon trimmings. Ribbon can be used effectively placed on edge, in that position making "an arabesque design upon the background of a hat. 7laTf-inch ribbon is sufficently wide, with one side dull silver or gold and the other blossomstrewn. .- .;■.'- .

Caps of suede made in the;tell Laplander pattern are piped in' sections and given a shredded pompom' on the summit. "Aviator" caps are turned back with suede or fur and perchance finished over the ears with a bunch of leather strips. ~