NEW SPRING HATS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 192, 15 August 1931, Page 11

NEW SPRING HATS

MASCULINE MODES It is 'rather curious to note that, directly dress becomes fluffy and faminine and the boyish mode is made entirely a thing of the past, milliners turn instantly to masculine hats for their inspiration. The top-hat has not yet appeared, but in England, says a correspondent, we have all the others. First to appear was the straw “boater,” made of dark coarse straw mixtures with a high shine, banded with striped ribbon to suggest “colours,” and worn at a most difficult angle, pushed well down on one side at the back; the bowler crown, also in coarse straw, but in pale colours, its narrow, straight brim edg'd with a tiny dropping veil, or with the brim rolled up in true bowler fasnion. The round American saner’s hat was the nex' shape copied, in tweed to match the f“cck or coat, or in straw and horsenair lace so twisted and bent as to almost suggest a tricorne. The newest arrival is most certainly a small edition of the Boy Scouts’ hat. This is made of fine straw, its round 'siown gong up almost to a join* ir t l < centre and its brim quite straight, if narrower than the origunL As vcl it has no ciiin-strup, but this may fellow, as a model hat seen recently not only hac a leather dog cellar ter it: hatband, bi was com-ph-ted with a metai disc for qjtc owner’s name and addresi.