HATS LIKE PLATES

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20366, 25 July 1934, Page 10

HATS LIKE PLATES

Crowns Are Very Nearly Non-existent. SAILORS ARE POPULAR. Take a plate, turn it upside down, attach to it a piece of elastic, and there you are, Moddom, one of the newest of this season’s hats. No, the elastic doesn’t go under your chin, but round the back, so you will have to cultivate some back curls or even a “ bun ” to slip it under. The importance of the elastic is evident, it’s your hat’s sole support, and the winds of August and September are apt to be playful. Sometimes it aspires to be ornamental as well as useful and sports a little bow of the same colour as the hat.

Crowns are so shallow as to be almost non-existent, so you will have to train your eye and accustom your head to a hat that is largely brim. As the summer days lengthen, so will the brims widen, till by November they will be like miniature sunshades. Some of the shops have one or two of these summer models waiting in their showrooms to stir into life with the heat of summer. They are quite charming, made of ballibuntl or na-tural-coloured Leghorn straws, some of the latter variety being complete with tiny bunches of cornflowers. Flowers, indeed, are staging a big come-back as trimming. Bunched in trim little posies they snuggle in the dip of a brim, or are caught in the hat band. Every nice girl likes a sailor, and don’t the milliners know it! Judging by the spring hat shows, everyone will this year be able to gratify her heart’s desire. Whether your choice be an ordinary sailor or one of the newer Breton variety with an upturned brim all round, it will be equally smart. A novelty to be seen at one of the millinery displays is a hat with an octagonal-shaped brim. This is not so difficult to wear as it sounds, the general effect being of wide scallops. With the spring, pastel shades are revived and blue, especially duck egg blue, looks like winning the colour stakes. Pastel pink and beige will both be seen in large quantities as well. A colour combination of infinite charm is duck egg blue and woodland brown. It must be seen to be believed, but is peculiarly satisfying to the aesthetic sense. Colours, however, refuse to be dogmatised about, and whatever the shade of vour new spring suit or hat, tucked f/-ay somewhere, is the hat which belongs to it. Here’s hoping that you will find it, and with it’s aid achieve a veritable triumph.