Amusing Hats

Southland Times, Issue 22472, 7 November 1934, Page 5

Amusing Hats

There is no denying that the milliners of Paris are endowed with a very strong sense of humour, says an English writer in an exchange. How else could they produce the battered top hats, the inverted flower-pots, and peasant bonnets we shall be wearing on our heads in the coming months? No other adjective but “amusing” fits these hats; I hope the critical will not go further and call them ridiculous. I am glad the large pancake berets are now finished; they were very difficult to wear. In spite of the many high shapes, Suzy still shows flat models, but they are small and surprisingly dignified; litle black caps edged with curling ostrich feather tips, and trim, small tip-tilted felts. Maria Guy has a Cossack hat about one foot high, trimmed with a single upright feather to add further height. Veils are still important, if slightly different. The eye-veil is superseded by the Yash-mak, which leaves the eyes uncovered and veils the face from the nose downwards, flaring out below the chin. Another new shape is the long, looseflowing, eighteenth century Venetian veil.