NEW MOTOR BONNET.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9303, 1 August 1908, Page 3

NEW MOTOR BONNET.

The latest and most bewitching caprice in millinery modes for motorists is the old-fashioned coal-scuttle, or poke, bonnet, a revival of the one n which Leech portrayed in " Punch " the belies of 1851, who attended the Great Exhibition of that year, introduced in London last autumn by a very smart millinery firm, the coal-scuttle bomiet immediately won its way into feminine favour, and proved a direct counterblast to the long-cherished conviction that millinery for motoring must necessarily be ugly, as well as practical. The new bonn«t is of the most fascinating appearance and thoroughly comfortable in wear. Composed for cold weather of fur, gauged taffeta or 6oft satin, it is now being extensively made in the daintiest or straw and the finest of crepo de chine. In those very appropriate colours, dunbrown and pneu-grey straw ? with large rosettes upon the closely-htting brim ol a eontrastntg hue, suoh as cerise and blue, the "coal-scuttle" is distinctly smart.

More decided hues are also being favoured. Lavender Tagal straw, for example, bunched at the sides with tiny pink roses, and buff chip, with, a single pink «stnoh feather flowing out at the back, and pink satin strings, looks charming, and are quite suitable for motor wear. On the open road silk gauged over cane, with ribbon trimmings, is preferable, because there is northing to spoil in such materials. Prominent among the advantages of the new motor-bonnet are the protection it affords to the hair at the side of the head and the nape of the neck, which part of the coiffure it completely shields from dust. There has been started lately a ecare to the effect that deafness is induced by rapid motion through the air, and all chance of this detriment the "coalscuttle" averts. '