GLASS HATS ARE THE LATEST VOGUE IN PARIS MILLINERY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 7, 23 January 1937, Page 16

GLASS HATS ARE THE LATEST VOGUE IN PARIS MILLINERY

Representing one of the most interesting developments in hpt-making, the glass hat, sponsored by Madame Agnes, the famous Parisian milliner, has made its appear ance abroad. In the f ollowing.article a Nejv York cdrrespondent describes some of the most unusual features of the new vogue. Madame Agnes is always ready for new ideas, aud, as she had heard rumours of the wonders being accomplished with - glass, sho made investiga tions with regard to that medium. 'I'he resuit was that she found two new and attractive elements ; a glass thread, easy to knit or crochet and flexible as wool, and the second a new formula for sheet glass, unbreakable, flexible as straw, and as light as a feather. Tke next step was to find a way of using them so that women would admire and wear them, although they were still a novel'ty. Thus it was that the Agnes collection this summer included glass hats for every occasion ; simple hats for the tai-lor-made; Wide-brimmed for lormal afternoon wear; small toques- for lateafternoon parties and restaurants. Glass bats may ' sound freakish, but there is hothing extraordinafy about them, and, surprisingly, they are mucli less brittlo than straw. Fashiohed . of 'opaque or transparent glass, milky,. clear white, or- tinted, they are kind to .the complexion and.soothing to the eyes. Glass hats are lighter than the majority of straws, ahd, best news of all, not any more expensive. t " . * . . Six models were .shown in the Agnes collection. Knitted caps of opalescent glass or in rioh, glowing .colours wero for evening, and were sonjetimes trimtned with a posy of matching flowers or a Mercury , wing-brim in sheet glass. Breton, . boater or sailors. were trimmed with grosgrain ribbon, An. all-glass hat had an openwork fishine.t crown of flexible thread and a transparent; tinted, or opaque glass _brjm ; oi* a velvet or sOft satin crown in matching or contrasting colour has a glass brim. Theso novelties in millinery should make ' ihstant appeal,- as their colour elrects and transparency are becoming to botlr bionde and brunette. As a novelty there is nothlng newer than this medium, and the brilliant" Madame Agnes has shown that it is essentiallv practieal. The advent of the glass' hat marks in some rospects an extension of the vogue for hats of cellophane or with cellophane brims. These,. though treated somewhat suspiciously at first, soon took place side by side with the rest of the season's millinery, and were found to be amazingly. decorative. Glass as 'a medium for hats differs from cellophane in several respgcts, and shpuld provo just as attractive. or more so. It is interesting to pote that there is a glass thread whicli can be knitted.or crocheted, especially in" vieiw of the fact that knitted'and crocheted wear will he one of the autumn's most important fashion notes. There seems to be a great popularity in store for knitted Weaves and crocheted weaves as the mediums for 'lightweiglit autumn suits and frocks. With regard. to' millinery, too, there is every prospect that bats will be much higher in the crown than during the past seasons], On the whole, perhaps, th© high-crowned hat is even more becoming than the shallow'-crowned, and seems easier to wear.