HATS AND VEILS.

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19759, 14 December 1935, Page 26 (Supplement)

HATS AND VEILS.

“ABYSSINIAN" EFFECTS. We have heard a great deal about hats already this season. The large and small hats alike that have shown new and novel features have been noticed a great deal, but besides these are the small toque and hat designed for comfortable wearing. Summer or winter, a small hat is indispensable. A taffeta beret is ideal for pictures, motoring, afternoon wear, and is not too dressy for morning wear; and it is ideal for travelling. Veils are becoming more and more popular, and before we know where we are we will be back to- the demure old tuck-under-the-chinc that acted as a security against wind, if nothing else. Veils need not necessarily come on to the face at all; indeed, some of them this season are bunched on to the backs of small hats; others, just to be contrary—and hats are very much that way this year—come right over the face and almost touch the shoulders. Jockey and Shovel Types. Jockey and shovel types are so popular at the moment that it is not unlikely that they will have a very short lease of life. The only thing that may save them from an early grave is their extreme usefulness. No type of hat could rival them, in their newness, for smartness, and at the same time they are as comfortable to wear as the most cosy-look-ing felt slouch. They are proof against wind, which means that there is no need to approach corners, with their treacherous gusts of wind, with temerity, for, with the aid of black elastic, they usually “stay put.” Besides this it gives eye shade, but these hats are designed for young faces, that can stand scrutiny in the unrelenting light of daytime. For utility none could be more acceptable than a hat of summer weight felt, the crown slightly deeper at the back than in the front, the brim straight, and large enough for summer golf, and small enough for other occasions. This should be simply trimmed and easy to adjust without the aid of a mirror.

Writing from London, Nelle M. Scanlon says that Abyssinia is having its effect on fashions, as well as on foreign politics, and Abyssinian velvet toques have made their appearance. Most of the hats are small, fitting the head, but based on the shako or helmet, and the brims are of any and every shape. Some have a bonnet effect, some a halo, others rise alarmingly to an ornamental creation on top. Pleats, folds, feathers and cords are having their day as trimmings.