WHEN CHOOSING A HAT
Do you s udy your face and Bead when choosing a hat, or do you fall in love with a model, indulge in a little wishful thinking about, your features, and imagine it will suit you? An expert on <he art of suitable millinery for various types of faces gives lhe following advice: — Don't, if your face is narrow and long, with prominent nose, and you wear glasses, get anything too young or skittish.
A little face, with delicate features, can wear the halo or bonnety hat well back on the head. Have curls or aw ave on the brow if lhe forehead is too high.
The ‘•full-moon” face can wear hats high in the crown, or given neight at the side by uplifted brim or trimmings.
Sophisticated faces can either accentuate their type wi>h eccentric models, or have softening lines with a little brim and r cluster of flowers or ribbon but not too many.
Dumpy girls with short necks and sound laces should avoid car.wheel hals with shallow crowns and turn-ed-dowii, brims. A high crown and medium brim, gives height and balLuckv is the with large eyes, smooth small nose and wellshaped mouih. She can wear a halo, a neat sporting hat, a turban, or any kind of “nonsense” hat. and look equally well in anyone of them.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 8, 10 January 1946, Page 2
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