The Beret As It Should Not Be Worn.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20740, 6 December 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)

The Beret As It Should Not Be Worn.

" Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," but what about tho head that wears a beret ?

Women having large faces with heavy jowls almost invariably "-fall" for the smallest and tightest berets that can' bo found—and wear them well off the brow, complains a well-known Londoner. They frequently introduce a thin, squiggly curl that emphasises rather ihan breaks up, the expansiveness of (lie face. The first caricature shows just how this looks. Next you have the opposite extreme. Women with high cheekbones and very small, pointed chins rarely content themselves with anything but tho largest specimen procurable, and generally

arrange it so that it accentuates the top-heavy effect of their heads. That Piquant Effect .

Too many women arrange their berets by a general rule rather than by individual judgment. It is true that a tilted beret will often give a piquant expression to a face with irregular features, but it must be remembered that tho effect depends upon the nature of the irregularity and the extent of tho tut.

Tho third and fourth faces above show the successful and unsuccessful application of this rule.

The beret that appears to be dripping off the back of the head is all very well on a really youthful wearer with a

retrousse nose, but on an older and more severe type of face it merely reminds one of tho chenille nets in which the more worthy of our grandmothers were wont to confine their back hair. Wont of all, is the tight beret worn just above the greatest circumference of a very bald and bulging brow.

" It keeps the onlooker in a constant stato ot nervous apprehension," she says. " One always feels that it would pop skyward with a sharp report should its wearer ever be struck by an extra large thought, and one expends untold mental energy in preventing anything of the sort from happening. A beret, worn correctly, should always have tho forehead lino adjusted to balance tho jaw line.