“OVER-HATTED”

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26040, 2 January 1946, Page 3

“OVER-HATTED”

LONDON FASHION FORECAST British women, almost hatless for five years, are now to be “ over-hatted ” in the view of Aaga Thaarup, a well-known London designer of Brook street. From a sleek line around the head, most of Thaarup’s latest models balloon forth into volume. They are higher, wider, and (here is mere draping of material than there has been in British hats since 1910. Even the new sporting felts have a lifting crown of about two inches compared with these seen in recent years. There is a period air about the whole collection Elizabethan, Regency, or Georgian. Thaarup realises there is a hankering after the romantic among utility-clad British women. He thinks this will find expression in hats immediately limitation of supplies makes more dressiness possible. His own response is in the use of Elizabethan heraldic motifs—tudor roses, gilt stars, silver fleurs-de-lis, embossed on black felt. In the same romantic vein is the silver lion rampant, mounted cn pins to make a metal trimming for plain black felts. Since economy of materials is still necessary these pins have the advantage of providing trimming for one or more hats, or even for decorating the lapel of a dark suit.