HAT STYLES CHANGE TO SUIT COIFFURES

Southland Times, Issue 23610, 10 September 1938, Page 16

HAT STYLES CHANGE TO SUIT COIFFURES

Edwardian hairdressing, which is becoming increasingly popular now that women have had time to grow their back hair to the right length, has made a great change in hat styles. Curls cannot be crushed, so it seems that designers have had to make hats which sit on as small a part of the head as possible.

The easiest variety is a tricorn, and there are many adapted models of this to be seen for wear in the late summer and early autumn. One was in black felt, trimmed with an upright feather spray held in place by a jewelled clip. It sat well forward on the forehead and was fixed with a small hatpin. Elastic, incidentally, looks so ugly with the up-turned coiffure that hatpins have staged a sudden comeback. Another version of the tricorn, designed specially for Princess de Bour-bon-Parme, was in pastel blue satin draped to a peak over the forehead and knotted on the top of the head to fall in folds to the nape of the. neck. Tricorns, however, are not the onlj styles which can be worn with Edwardian curls. An adapted coolie hat in black felt sat well forward and yet managed to retain its high peak and flat brim. It was trimmed with pink camellias placed on either sides of the peak and it had ’ a chin-length veil. More summery and very becoming was another model with a brim of leghorn straw. Its tiny crown was made of multi-coloured velvet bows. But designers have remembered that we do not all wear our hair on the top of our head. Fashions cater for other hair styles, too. One particular model, thought out by a famous French designer, was a high fez in black antelope. It sat coyly on the side of the head and was trimmed with a draped bandeau of blue chiffon looped at either side. Another black hat was in felt with a pointed crown trimmed with black moire ribbon and a long, heavily-spot-ted veil which hung gracefully over one shoulder.