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FASHIONS AND FANCIES
Hats of the New Season.
Black Taffeta Vogue.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH
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Has that mould the head are seen along with the hats that con- tinue-very high in the mid-season mode. Very distinguished are the new hats smartly draped, pulled or cut into unusual lines and in un- usual fabrics.
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The very high hat with its oddly dented or creased crown still per- sists in attracting attention and will be much seen throughout the winter season-particularly in the new and very soft felts that come in such charming colours.
Brims remain of little importance They rarely in the newest hats. appear in any definite shape. The winter hat still persists in featur ing either brimless hats or ting brims that turn themselves down all around, up all around or in ruffed effects, partly upturned or in all sorts of odd ways made impor- tant to the high-crowned hat.
Crowns remain the important Creases mark its part of the hat. height, folds are seen and all sorts of indentations in all sorts of places mark it chic and becoming.
The very new hats, of course, mould the head and are of turban lines the helmot hat, the new cap ine with tam drape, a toque, that is drawn on like a cap, the hat with the crest-like fold from front to back, a sort of Mephistopheles cap: with oddly pointed sides and other unusual effects lend the modeli hats.
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green to vivid tones in felts, and silks.
Gold in woven fabrics is much seen while the black hat, as usual, is always amart.
Corinne Griffith, who wears the hats of each senson with so much
head distinction, inde the new moulded hate decidedly smart and In her new First Na: becoming, tional film, "The Lady in Erming" Miss Griffith chooses several of the
new season's favourites. "
TIGHT-HAT RISK.
Will the wearing of close-fitting hata, of the cloche type affect women's hair in the next few years? This is aquestion' exercising the minds of hair specialists (says the London "Daily Mail."
By wearing these hats on bobbed. shingled,, or Eton-cropped hair women the reproducing some of the conditions that affect the hair of men who wear tight-fitting head- gear.
Several hairdressers told a "Daily Mail 2 reporter that thining out" of the haly among women is more common than it used to be. Unwise choice of hata is. In their opinion, the sole cause.
Everywhere that Mary goes this senson she is apt to take with her
at least one frock of black and at lenat one of taffeta, and, if she be wise in the ways of the made, she will generally combine the two and have one very distinguished costume of black taffeta.
There are many lines to choose from In selecting the black tafferm afternoon gown. There may be a bouffant tendency or a very simple. silhouette featuring an intricate
cut, Simplicity generally marks the advent of the black taffeta gown and very little in the way of trim- ming is added to its native smart-
neas..
Colour pay, of course, be an add- ed feature of the gown. If it be acen at all its mark of distinction. is its artistic outline, A collar of eream lace, a vestes of shell pink, a brilliant blue ribbon, embroidered motifs of gold, colored thread stitching or any other simple means. adding another colour note' la al- ways effective.
All black is, of course," much soon. And the combination of black and white is a pleasing to the sartorial senses this season as in past years,
The very full skirt that possesses an uneven hemline is much used In taffeta frocke. Walsts are, of course, bound to be snugly fitted
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and sleeves have all manner of opportunities to make themselves course of a paper read before the important. The very long and Royal Statistical Society upon "The bell-shaped sleeve, the tight fitting, Wool. Industry." One did not sleeve" torminating; in a: balloon usually meet the depression by dis shape are also in vogue while the charging trained workpeople, but Mere Agures of bishop or butterfly sleeve enters by short time: into this season's point of interest, unemployment therefore did not Billie Dove, seen in her newest tell the whole tale. The depres First National film, "An Affair of sion, reckoning the decline both in the Fallies," wears a black taffetanumbers employed and their aver frock smartly appliqued in white age earning, in the wool and textile broadcloth, with a bouffant skirt, industry as a whole, showed a 25
per cent, reduction in 1926 com Atted waist and batoon sleeves.
pared with May 1920. This depres mion had lasted for three years, and showed no signs of lifting.
SHINGLED HAIR
The shingle won't last a decade. Long hair will return as sure as the sunshine follows the rain," says Marcel, the Inventor of the now famous, hair wave..
These conflicting opinions were
Mr. Long, who assisted Marcel to. Mr. J. H. Browne, chairman of popularize the wave, declares, how- the Hairdressers' Registration Com-ever, that the shingle will be Grosgrain ribbon, as usual, amittee, said:"Two most harmful fashionable for the next 30 years. seen in the midseason. Straw things to the hair are lack of one obtained when Messrs. Marcel and adaptations with taffetas, silks and tilation and interference with the
If the Long visited London. They were knitted threads also are seen. The circulation of the blood. embossed antelope felt is now in headgear is too tight not enough accompanied by their wives, neither
of whom was. bobbed or shingled. blood will go to feed the roots,
Mr. Long added that the shingle Feather trimming is much seeh there will be no essential accretion on the new bate. Breast feathers. or natural grease, and there will would be long-lived because it went greatly covering the hat are very not be an adequate supply of colour-with short skirts, which must con- interesting features of some of the ing matter, A woman should take tinue.
The Eton crop, he said, was doom- new grosgrain hats: Shaded fea-esre that the hat is large enough ther flowers are also a new faney not to cause undue pressure, anded because it was ugly, of the season. Silk flowers in unshe should beware of anything uaual designs are squn on the hats that makes a line on forehead or that come across seas, but in scalp. There is a greater danger general the hat that relies entirely to hair in lack of proper ventila- A hat should be worn. în upon its own unusual, lines and tion. boasts no trimming is most success- such a way that there is ample air fully seen.
space, and to ensure that ventila-. tion. 18' adequate a material should be chosen that admite air. Yet get ventilation through such things as velour, felt and cloth materials, but those that do not admit alr-oil skin and similar materials-should be avoided."
Combinations of fabrics are used amartly. Straw and silk prove particularly effective. Folds, cresses and odd arrangements of the fabrics distinguish all the 'new hats. Colours vary from the soft shades of blue, rose, beige, grey and
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FASHION'S CHANGES.
Depression in the Worsted Trade.
The present vogue a knitted- goods and the short amalt skirt was one of the factors of the depression in the worsted trade, said Mr. Wood, secretary of the Woollen and Worsted Trades Federation, in the
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