Hat Novelties

Levin Daily Chronicle, 22 March 1917, Page 3

Hat Novelties

The millinery for the autunm and winter owns to no particular shape or size. You can be quite up-to-date in the new-crowned Russian toque of velvet and fur, or in a flat picture hat of hatter's plush., with an Oriental ornament for its sole trimming. The litttle brimless hat with it 6 wreath of flat flowers, so popular last winter, is nowhere to be seen, for the Russian toque, or that with the broad bandeau and tain o' slinnter top lias taken its place. Hats of velvet, panne or hatter's plush are more fanciful of sliape than we have seen tliem for some time. The tricorne appears in many forms and the hat with the brim sharply turned off the face is much in vogue amongst the new models. Felt and velour hats in Breton sailor shape have appeared in lovely pastel shades, the most charming being a beautiful champagne tone. A quaint style, though somewhat unserviceable, is the little close-fitting hat in all colors, made of chenille. Though black hats seem to predominate in the showrooms, many beautiful models are to be seen in emerald and bottle green, rose tone, mole and brown. Trimmings are all laid on flat in the new millinery. There are no upstanding mounts at all. In fact, there is very little adornment shown on any of this season's hats. Flat wings flat flowers, and Oriental ornaments or buckles seem to be all that fashion decrees. An original idea is the application of little silk embroidered ducks, chickens and other suggestions from the poultry farm which appear on the hat bands of some ready-to-wear hats. These hate are indeed like allegories of the dismal fatality of chickens coming home to roost.

A Paris novelty is seen in the embroidered net veils used for trimming hats, as well as protecting the face. Some of these are of black net, with a design in colors or in gold, just to come in the centre of the hat. Many veils are elaborately worked with gold, and a hat so adorned needs no other trimming.—Sydney Snn.