WHAT OF THE MORROW?
IF YESTERDAY PROVIDES AMUSEMENT.
The best hats women were wearing when war broke out in 1914 have become museum exhibits. Big as shields, and magnificent with white wing feathers and velvet bows, they are poised behind glass in a new exhibit at the London Museum. One item, it is suggested, must have been worn by some member of the midVictorian elegant fast set. This is what it has on it: Two stuffed humming birds; an imitation butterfly; an iridescent dragon-fly; a wreath of purple violet pansies; and a- quivering handful of dyed grasses. I wonder (writes a woman contributor to the London Daily Mail) if the London Museum is already collecting some of our own preposterous headgear, savfing it to exhibit in glass cases to an incredulous public in 1954. I suspect some of the stocking-top hats, fezes, microscopic berets, and other fancies will be harder to believe than even the quivering dyed grasses and the bottle-green humming-birds.
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Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3471, 26 May 1934, Page 9
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