SMALLER HATS FEATURED AT RECENT PARIS SHOWS

Chronicle (Levin), 23 November 1946, Page 3

SMALLER HATS FEATURED AT RECENT PARIS SHOWS

Hats eveu smaller tlian last season, but littiug well down on tlie liead, are tlie rule for autumn and winter, aceordiug to cable messages received from Paris by tlie Australian Wool Board. Perolied sliapes and s.traight-on-th.e-head styles are out of favour and liats will be worn tilted forward or on tlie back j of tlie liead at a slightly slanled tlireequarter angle. BonneLs and postiilion sliapes often Lrimmod with sweeping feathers are among the season 's favourites, while hats i'ashioued in a single piece from a i'elt hood without a seam dividing brim and erown aud sliaped usually with a rollod-up brim are iu tlie vanguard of i'ushioii. llardly a liat at all, a little beret based 011 tlie Basque beret aud worn well on the back of tlie liead, promises lo be iu high favour, appearing sevcrely plain to team up with sports clolhes of gaily triuuned feathers, veiling or eveu sequius for gala occasions.

Reveliing iu tlie return of line woollens, f'rench milliners are using tliem lavishly for draping turbans and even to eover brimmod sliapes, while wool jerscys are being stretclied or draped inLo beret and muftin toquo sliapos to match winter suits and coats. Itodier's iine wool mousseline searves prinled with an almost liihitless range of designs in a liost of colourings, some delicately pastel and otliers reprodueiug the faded tones of old brocades, the browns, the reds and faint ycliows of rare tapestries are -being hailed with delight by leading milliners. Using tliese daxnty woollen searves, Enerley Soeurs are fashioning little diadem bonnets of Victorian influence with. draped ends falling over the ears pjr tying under fliereliih. Madame Suzy makes faseinating draped hats in her favourite black and red woollens, one in vivid raspberry red jersey dramatised with a knot of natural green-black coekifeathers; wliile Rose Valois shows a head -shawl in ytaingei'ine-varid . higger.brotten tweed". eiT^ed Vvitli 'a 'frihge bi brown felt and held upoh the liead with j a knotted bandeau to match.