GOBLIN MILLINERY AS POINTED HATS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 182, 22 October 1927, Page 19 (Supplement)

GOBLIN MILLINERY AS POINTED HATS

STARFISH ORNAMENTS AND BRONZE BRIMS Funny little pointed hats, which incline to make women look like goblins are among the new season’s millinery modes. They are mostly made from felt, twisted into position. Many of the new felt hats are ventilated, a result of the oft-repeated warning that airless hats cause women to become bald. Some of the new felt shapes are made with a considerable amount of ventilation, arranged as designs in open-work embroidery, the rough edges of the pattern being worked round with chenille or heavy silk, generally of a contrasting colour. Much of the effectiveness of these hats depends upon the way in which the embroidery shows up the wearer’s hair. The latter is revealed through the open spaces; so the colour of the stitchery in relation to the hair is very important. A beige felt, with a crown “covered” with a cut-out design worked in scarlet, looked extremely smart on a black-hai.red woman. Other new hats have a metallic binding, bronze or copper being particularly popular. A close-fitting hat, with an upturned, narrow brim of beaten bronze, and a starfish shape made of the same metal, affixed to the side of the hat, was very striking.