RIVAL TO THE BERET

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19683, 28 December 1933, Page 10

RIVAL TO THE BERET

NEW CAP FITTING. The beret has a succession of triumphs to its record from Basque interpretations to numberless variations, and there seems little doubt that, like the brook, it will “go on for ever'’ (states the “Daily Telegraph”). When it enters another kingdom apart from sports, however, the beret has to be enlarged in some way or other. This has been done by actually seaming the original shape to make it look slightly bigger with a wider double brim in cloth, felt and velvet. Rival modes are the “cowboy,” made of soft felt fabric—or cleverly and closely crocheted in wool. Jockev caps will succeed in a measure, but the forage cap of military persuasion is so suggestive of strife as to sink its charm. It is a shape easy to cultivate for sports wear, and you can carry on in any colour, whether military or matching a suit, with metal buttons, deciding the shape of your lap-over crown that may be pointed or a flat oblong. However, a serious rival to the beret has been launched by Suzanne Talbot in a new cap fitting. This is removed from the skull cap tendency through not appearing to be so skull-tight, so to speak, and dipping down on the right side of the forehead in the beret manner. The shape is smart in black, with veils posed over the crown to dip just beyond the eyes on an all-round level. Trimmings are set at the apex of the crown and above these veils, but they are mostly posed to slant off in an opposite direction to the forehead tilt. These might take form In lacquered quills, bunches of four or five small ostrich feather tips, or single ones cut from tinfoil, which bring with them a brilliant and novel note. Apart from this metal note, trimmings conform in colour with the felt, but in one instance a change is wrought through a little tuft of gay colours in green and orange crepe—colours which are pierced together for a short scarf that is twisted into a coil round the neckline. Another cap takes effect in black worsted wool with a puckish loop at the top surrounded by a black velvet ribbon finished off in a bow.