CARE OF THE SKIN.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1174, 8 July 1911, Page 11

CARE OF THE SKIN.

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striped' ribbon is most used with a broad baud of colour on one side. Thos3 are very smart and effective, especially when combined with Dowers or wings, but I am inclined to think the fashion will be a short-lived one, and that plain ribbons will have it their own way again very soon.

One hardly feels that about the present voguo for broad bauds of black velvet, seen in so many of the best shops. Black velvet is almost universally becoming, and it gives, very inconspicuously, just the touch that makes a hat effective

A beautiful high-crowned hat of cinnamon brown straw, trimmed at the side with a groat -tuft of drooping black feathers, had its brim covered for two or three inches from the crown with black velvet, laid on flatly, and a band of the same width round the crown, tho effect being very smart. Black velvet was used even more effectively on another smart high-crowned hat of pure whito straw, a broad band perhaps four inches in width being put on in narrow upright, pleats, and finished at tho side with three pink roses. The Flower-Pot Hat. There is rather a fancy for using flowers in little scattered bunches of three, and one particularly pretty white hat I noticed was trimmed with .dark blue silk, the silk caught down here and there with little pink roses, in sets of three—a very daring idea. The flower-pot'hats are still very popu. lar, .though one hardly expects they will bo. worn so miieh when the sun becomes .moro overpowering. The trimming of theso is usually, simple, a wing, a pair of hares' ears in' silk or velvet set at one side, or a Pierrette cockade of five roses set one above the other on a long stem. One of the prettiest of these hats shown in a shop near the opera was of whito

straw, trimmed with velvet cherries in clusters of three, and two long hare's cars in cherry-coloured velvet. Among small closely-fitting hats, the prottiest I have seen was of dark blue satin straw, turned back from the face with a wide-winged effect, with pale silver grey straw, the most-becoming style one can imagine for a round youthful face. Another dainty little shape was of daTk grey soft: straw lined with dark green and blue tartan, and swathed with a narrow fold of tho sain* silk. As far as'one can judge, hats this season can hardly be ton heavily. massed with (lowers, or too simply trimmed. YOll may turn the crown into a perfect flower-bed-with small flowers, laid flat, or large roses heaped high; you may have a single spray, of roses at one sido for all your trimming', or a 'wreath of tiny, roses set at intervals on a slender trail of. foliage. You may have hugo bows of ribbon spreading wide -at-back, or front, or cascading all over the crown. You may have your • flowers set stiffly without any foliage at-all, or you-, may cover the crown with a wild luxuriance of field flowers mixed With, meadow grass. There seems no limit to the scope, for one's originality. '-