NEW MILLINERY MODELS ARE MOST ATTRACTIVE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 173, 9 August 1937, Page 11

NEW MILLINERY MODELS ARE MOST ATTRACTIVE

A writer in a London paper describes the latest fashions in millinery, cartwheel brims, bonnets and strings, picturesque leghorns, field flowers and so on, and as these are. likely to be the fashion in our own town "for the coming summer readers may like to know what to anticipate. Th0 many beautiful frocks and hats which are needed in England foi Ascot patrons and the numerous' special efforts being made by the desagners. This season proves that the debutante and her mother can wear, the most e/clusive and romantic of models, They reflect all the charms from 1837 brought into unison with the fashion points of 1937 (says the English writer.) There are at least two opposing facfcors in millinery that mark this year's Ascot. Hats are either very tiny oi exceptionally large. All are- poised lightly on the head in all kinds of uovel ways. Dainty ethereal cartwheels, with sprays of - flowers and feather fantasies reposing on theii brims of tulle and lace, are traditionaliy ' ' Ascot. ' ' The latest charm of the new brims of gigantic proportions is to place s:ngie flowers of silk 'and velvet oi fcathery tips between two layers or tulle. Stalks of flowers or stenis of ostrich are .uordered with coarse stitchery, which shows the flower or feather to advantage and, makes them more seeure. A iiiy-grean crinoline of very fragile but large dimensions has big fiat purple anu pink clematis encased within two layers of palest flesk tulle. Tlie shape tnen. sweepe on in Gainsborougli arrogance to oue side. Field flowers, reposmg between the double tulle brim of blacK were chosen for an Ascot creation of black crepe embroidered with red darsies. The only medium-sized hats for Ascot eeem to favour the coolie crown. Molyneux has a model in apricot BalL-Bun-tal, the flat round crown being composed entirely of a ring of apricot . ostrich frongs an.d a feather tip. h'or bonnets and caps chiffon is the Ldeal and leading summer fabric. Novel tiny pork-pie shapes, bonnets and' forage caps, made entirely of eoloured chittons, are wonderful. They are tucked, pksee, gauged and stitched in sucli ways as to turn the" original material into models of outstandiug beauty. Chiffon strings add an amusing 1830 touch to the latest Paris bonnet. A lieboux chiffon bonnet in a shade of sea-green has strings in the sanie tone which can either tie under the chin or fall gracefully down the back. These chiffon strings are original and fasci-, nating. Suzy T'alb.ot shows a fancy crinoline bonnet with a whole crown composed of knots in a black ribbon velvet. Other minute hats are made mostly in small pill-box shape. Some are entirely of osprey and , pastel-ostrich frongs. A favourite, which will be to the fore at Ascot, is a forage cap of ' ' stuck-on ' ' ostrich in tones of shaded peach and deeper apricot. There is a tache-peigne of this feather-like ribbonwork, and the rings of feather and plume of the crown mingle with the curls. The skull-cap continues in popularity for the young. In flower, feather or ehiffon, these caps are worn at the back of the hea'd, with a long floating veil. Chiffon Parasol. Delightful for Ascot was a parasol of printed pastel tones dn chiffon and x hat to match, with a rouleaux of chiffon aud two pom-poms iu the samc lovely shade of hyacinth-blue. This dea was also carried out in organdie, xnd struck an Edwardian air with its rvonderful medJey of colourdng. It seems incredible that each of the two small chiffon poiiipoms represented a pard of fabric. The all-white vogue has a big followng. The smaller shapes in whi,te are ipecially attraetive, in all kinds of new cabrica and straws, with cotton flowers md unusual wings. Leghorns will complete some organdde msembles at. the summer pageant, but :hey are not so interesting as the newer fabric straws and the fine tulles and ihiffons. Here and there the old-world leghorns with sweeping lines will apoear with organdie frocks, the hats xdorned with floral sprays or droopng feathers.