FASHION FOLLOWS FILMS
The trend of Paris fashions is towards the naughty nineties, according to a British United Press message from the French capital. Bond street can claim to be in the van of this movement, for the latest hats and hairdressing styles are inspired by those worn by Lilli Palmer in "The Great Barrier," the Gaumont British film of the building of the C.P.E. 55 years ago. Hat styles are based on a conservative adaptation of the "ten gallon hat," from which men of the Canadian West used to give their horses a drink is the eighties. Grandma in the naughty nineties lcnew the value of head-dresses for glamour. Lilli Palmer gives a modern interpretation of these fashions in "The Great Barrie," in which she wears a rose coyly perched over one eye or a black sequin butterfly glistening among her curls, which, although it looks as modern as today 's newspaper, is really just a new edition of a hair fashion of 50 years ago. Even in men 's wear, styles in Canada are to-day based on those of 1880. Mackinaws (heavyweight short woollen coats), caps, gloves and boots being solj in Toron.o to-day are similar to those worn during Ihe building of the C.P.R,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 113, 29 May 1937, Page 13
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