NEXT SUMMER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21224, 2 July 1932, Page 6 (Supplement)

NEXT SUMMER.

BIRTHDAYS DON'T COUNT.

" YOUNGER " HATS. Next summer is to give us " younger " hats. Birthdays simply don't count nowadays, sivice fashion makes us gently copy our grandmothers in the subtlest way, the while causing us to chop years off our own age.

Then she suddenly turns impish, and makes us into May Queens, with ribbon garlands ou our hair trailing from the funniest, dearest little headgear imaginable.

We never know where we are with fashion. That's why it is such a fascinating gairo to play, trying to keep up with her vagaries. This season, however, her whims are not exaggerated. She has decided that the medium which there is in all things shall apply in the case of millinery. We had " cartwheels" and hats like young bathing tents last year. The year before we wore picture hats until we got bored to tears with them, so the new idea provides a refreshingly pleasant change, quite apart from the fact that it is going to suit us. Colour, of course, is one of those things which of lata has exceeded all bounds. Wo have become colour mad. Now we are more likely to have a " run " on certain colouis.

At the moment the trend is for yellow and brown, ior primrose leaf green, and the brightest of " boy blue " shades. Wo have gut used to these violent blues very well I think. There is only one thing against them: they are inclined to make those who patronise them look very alike.