THE HAT OF MAN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21467, 15 April 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)

THE HAT OF MAN

GAYER MASCULINE WEAR Something for which tho whole civilised world is waiting lies hidden in a tiny shrine in Regent Street. Pilgrims from China and tho Argentine draw near it with anxious silence; hard-headed English business men doff their hats and bow to gaze at it through the tiny peep-holo. Tho approach to it is up a scarlet carpet under pink striped awnings. The Hat of Civilised Man in 1933 is secretly throned on a silver head, perpetually rotating, inside tho black shrine, and it has taken tho combined powers and experience of the finest hatters in England six months to invent it. The hat which tho Hatters' Stylo Research Association took so long "to make looks at first sight like tho immaculate felt of the business man, with three exceptions. It is made to be worn well forward, as women wear their hats, it is meant for a jaunty angle, arid tho left and right sides of tho brim curvo upward and inward with a luxurious curl—the authentic camber. Other changes are prophesied. A sock that has no irritating seam down the heel is " revolutionising " that placid industry. Dressing-gowns aro getting more lurid than ever, and a tropical blaze of palm-trees, blue bays, ships, pyramids and desert sands will arlorn the pilgrimago to tho morning bath in 1933. Alternatively there is the "dissolute" line, ■ embroidered with wine-glasses, packs of cards, golf sticks, billiard balls, speed boats, aeroplanes, and Japanese beauties. But green is tho biggest change. Green will bo the only fashionable colour, six months hence, for hats and shirts and suits—but it is tho humblest and most inoffensive green invented.