A Grotesque Hat.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 20, 19 May 1909, Page 68

A Grotesque Hat.

The fancies and vagaries of fashion always offer a wide field for speculation. As * matter of fart, now that public taste in this country, as well as abroad, has so vastly improved, wa ean be fairly

certain that unless a fashion has genuine merits its prospect of survival is extremely bad. It is a mistake for the individual woman with a style and cachet of her own to follow too closely some mad vagary of fashion that is in itself ugly, and has no recommendstion but novelty. I ean generally see something attractive in, or something to be learnt from the wildest vagaries of fashion, but I must admit that the new toque has earned my undying antipathy. I mean that

ultra-fashionable toque in feather or fur, which is so suggestive of an African squaw or a busby The prettiest woman is annihilated by th* wearing of the busty toque. As a feature of autumn millinery it must be chronicled, but I do not think it should be recommended. No doubt in th* hands of th* expert milliners it may be metamorphosed and Haim consideration. Indeed, reformers are already beginning to lift it from th* head, and to add a more definite brim than in th* models «m first mm.