THE NEWEST IN MOTORING HEADGEAR

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6652, 28 October 1908, Page 2

THE NEWEST IN MOTORING HEADGEAR

_ Motoring women in England are beginning to bo much more particular about their looks than was the case when the pastime was new, notes a lady writer in a Loudon weekly illustrated. Kow they endeavour, as far as the condition of the sport will allow, to remain feminine in looks, and the muffled and goggled figures, only fit-for a grotesque carnival, that aforetime clashed hy, are rarely seen. The most successful adjunct to this attempt so far is the revival for motoring wear of the pretty little cottage bonnet of early Victorian days- For driving at ’a moderate speed, and not for all dayfast touring, those “ cottage bonnets ” —the shape often described as “coal scuttles,” but kept quite small and ’close-fitting—are excellent. They sit on the hair, and cover the head as neatly as a hood, and defy the rushing wind to push them off, while at the same time they are becoming in a high degree to most ' faces. A rosette of ribbon just above each ear is a 'prac- . Weal trimming, and although the straw or slightly stretched silk that makes the shape of the bonnet should he a colour that does not show the dust, such as a dark grey or a paler brown, tire rosettes may be a bright

colour, such as pale blue or golden yellow, as they aro easily changed 'when dusty. Tiny clusters of pink button roses are sometimes used as trimming in the sumo situation. A closefitting felt hat of tlio mostjdiable kind over which the .motor-veil "dan bo tied tightly is still the most practical wear lor a long journey; but for going about where one meets people who .enow one, and perhaps one gets out 10 make a call on friends hero and there, the dear little cottage bonnet with a veil on an clastic that can be thrown back or drawn over the face ~t will is the correct notion.