CHOOSING A HAT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 September 1940, Page 8

CHOOSING A HAT

’ BALANCE YOUR FACE. The most important rule about choosing a hat is that it must balance your face. Width must match width. Too much length in the face —or too little —can be overcome by the width of your hat. The Duchess of Kent has the perfect hat face, and holds her head and neck superbly. This is half the battle. A good carriage makes you twice as attractive, and shows off your hat or; your dress as nothing else can. , Always remember, too, to choose your hat to go with your hair —or, if you have bought a hat you couldn’t resist which does not go with your hair, do have it dressed in a new style to go with that hat. Nothing is worse than hair going in a direction and line that doesn’t blend with the hat. The line of the hair should be contiguous with the hat-line. People with the largest faces seem always to choose the smallest hats. Those little pieces of nonsense look delicious on stands, but it takes a Yvonne Printemps or a Gertrude Lawrence to wear them. Not because either one is classically beautiful, but because they both have piquant “smart" faces—essentially “hat” faces. So, unless you feel you are of the same type, avoid too’much nonsense and too little hat. Why won’t you women believe that a brim is absolutely essential as a friend; indeed, the kindest friend you can have? Veils, too, are valiant allies. Both throw a kind of becoming haze over the face which hides lines and wrinkles, ugly skin or bad features, and makes a pretty face more seduc-1 five. It is a pity that life today does not permit of the lovely big capelines of days gone by. With their waving big brims and rather flat crowns, they were the most becoming things in the world. But you will note that Garbo and Dietrich resort to slouch felts in their free time —and very dashing and attractive they look.