Under Shady Brims

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 489, 19 October 1928, Page 5

Under Shady Brims

Hats for Summer Days Turbans for Starlit Hours

As the summer season approaches, the brimmed hat assumes importance. One’s comfort comes first, after all, and while we admit the utter smartness of the brimless small hat, it is hardly to be considered when the. day is drenched with sunshine. Even'the cloche, quite different unto itself, is broadening its brim for reasons it considers sufficient. In general, the brimmed hat is having its hour! Quite as important as the garden is the garden hat. It is a logical accessory to the frock of lace or chiffon, or the summer cotton or linen. The woman who finds it picturesquely becoming greets it with enthusiasm, the woman who does not contents herself with a medium brim, shortened where it should be, given width where it is possible. Seldom has the mediumbrimmed hat been so varied and interesting.

It is noted that straw is assuming its rightful position in the summer mode, and at this time it is casting felt and fabrics of various sorts into the shadow. Felt is, however, a classic, and always correct because so rated. But the smart hat is the straw hat, almost invariably. We list them —bangkok, balibuntal, bakou sisol, paillason, hair, and the fine straws that are ably represented by Milan. The hat with wide brim or mediumwide is the afternoon choice. Evening sees a return of the turban or the skull-cap. A word about the latter is imperative, for it is one of the season's successes. It is made of gleaming paillettes of tiny lacquered feathers, or of curls of fine straw that resemble a Greek head in statuary. On certain types this skull-cap is extremely smart, but many types cannot wear It at all.

Out of the 1,000,000 T houses inspected by the British Ministry of Health in 1926, no fewer than 13,260 were declared to be unlit for human habitation.