THE CHANTECLER TOQUE
..An enterprising draper has already Bono one better than the Chantecler veil and has -produced the Chantecler toque. Any thine'more weird and wonderful can hardly be imagined—though perhaps in conjunction with a piquante sparkling face—who knows? Anyhow. • a pretty girl was overheard to say, after njiving made an exhaustive survey of the feathered headgear, "I -shall never have a rooster's head drooping over my left eyebrow, whatever the fashion is." The economically minded housewives will,. I am sura, merely regard the new millinery with passiv.e hostility as another excuse for another rise in the price of eggs. Already those citizens who have given up. their fowl-runs owing to the stern dictum of the City Fathers, are sorrowfully considering how much they might have saved in milliners' bills had they retained a few specimens of this overpopular bird.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7111, 25 April 1910, Page 4
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140THE CHANTECLER TOQUE New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7111, 25 April 1910, Page 4
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