LETTER TO PENELOPE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 148, 8 June 1935, Page 10

LETTER TO PENELOPE

Dear Penelope,—There is no doubt that with the wonderful new shapes and sizes seen in this season's millinery it will be quite impossible to wear" last season’s hats and look really smart, and so I am wondering what shape to tell you to choose from the many models to wear this winter. Your question is indeed difficult. Flat hats are definitely “out,” and the new high crowds, pointed, loldeu, draped, or high and pierced are to the lore —interspersed with Russian tricornes and the new velvet “bonnets.” The exaggerated over-the-ear tilt is also gone, and the new line is forward on tne brows, with a barely perceptible penchant on one side. Little vens are also worn. Can you imagine yourself in a hat designed by Aage 'luaarup, a young Norwegian in London, wnose modem can lie picked out anywhere)' tie chose a big black hat with two stiffened ribbons sticking straight up tne back, and had a company of coloured tin soldiers marching round the crown. Another hat he trimmed with a spray of brass Howers standing up on long stems from the side of the crown, while still another close-fitting black toque, folded to a becoming shape and innocent of trimming, was finished with a gold cord which went right over the crown and tied under the chin. Definitely the unexpected is the new law in the hat world!

Black hats, I’m told, aro still the “best sellers,” being both becoming and serviceable, and they can be fashioned in faille, satin, taffeta, velvet, velours, antelope, felt and fur, with relief of white, vivid scarlet, or light green, or sometimes with a jewelled clasp. Pill-box hats are worn a good deal, and also tricornes and berets very like Highlanders’ caps. For plain coats and skirts Alpine felts and dented Homburg shapes are chosen, while with Russian blouses a Cossack cap is worn.

On the whole one seems to need a different hat for every garment, and certainly new hats each season. 1 would suggest that you look round for a hat that really suits you regardless of whether it is ultra-fashionable or not, choosing a colour, such as any shade of fawn or brown, that may be worn with equal success with many frocks. If you wear a model trimmed with tin soldiers everyone in the town will know you by your hat in about a eouple of weeks. Love. JANE.