SKYSCRAPER HATS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 June 1938, Page 4

SKYSCRAPER HATS

THE LATEST VOGUE. The new season's slogan is “Dress down in your clothes and up in your hats.” Dress materials are more elegant than ever before, with plenty of glitter of gold and silver in keeping with the festive season into which they are making their debut. the hats are high-minded, to say the least, with practically no limit to their elevation, while shoes are straining their utmost to reach the same degree of uplift and have crept up and wrap right round the ankles. The reference “dress down in your clothes” emphasises that black will predominate, and that day frocks will be subdued, so that all the limelight will focus on accessories. Cut-away Shoes. As black is predicted as the fashion lead for autumn, most of the new shoes are black, with antelope as the favoured medium. The fact that they are high-riding, however, does not mean that they can’t have cut-away backs or be toeless. Far from it, and many of the shoes show interesting cutaways. Although black is almost universal there are three colours of which much will be seen—privet green, penny rust and carnation (a warm,, soft, pinky red), and for gowns and suits of these colours, there are antelope shoes to match. Antelope is also appearing in the two-tone Tyrolean sports shoes, very light in weight, which have a contrasting trimming of some neutral shade of kid. Much Trimmed Woollens. Woollens this season are hardly recognisable, so blazing are the colours of some of them, while others are trimmed in almost undreamt-of ways. Fashion displays contain many fascinating Rodiers. One is a satin-backed angora, then there is the beaded angora, light and soft, and ( resembling nothing so much as a scattering' of hundreds and thousands on a black surface. Some of the woollens are self appliqued all over with cut-outs in leaf, ring, etc., shapes. Mohair is appliqued on to others. Wool lace has returned, but as a sheer, and striped woollens, in the tradition of the bayaderes, are making an appearance. There are affinity woollens, plains matching fancies. Other fabrics resemble shorn sheep skins.

The plaids, designed for lhe boxy bulky sports coats of the coming season, are brilliant in their colourings. Colour leads, after blacks, of course, are privet green, penny tan, carnation. Silk fabrics can be divided into two main heads —velvets and metals. Of the latter the lames are either stiff with vivid Persian colourings and bold designs, or else they are very soft and silky for easy draping. There are tinsel georgettes, velvet chiffons, lacquered georgettes (so soft that the wind could blow them away), hand-painted marquisettes, quilted satins, Flocken taffetas and satins, Richelieu satins, lace-like silks and georgettes, beautiful, soutache braided chiffons ( vividly embroidered satins and taffetas, bayadere stains and picture prints, astrakin "(very lik.e hand-painted cloque), and a new uncrushable velvet. Colours for evening are Mayan blue, prairie yellow, Aztec i - ed and Toltec green. Up With the Hats. Among the new hats will be the Chechias, the design for which is taken from those worn in the Balkans. Schiaparelli’s skyscraper berets and profile berets are among the collection. Most of the brims this season shoot violently upward and forward. In fact, brims tower. There are also funnel types of crowns.