THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 31, 1939.
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WE GO TO BUY A HAT.
Almost too minute and like a doll's hat to be noticed at first glance. Only to be chosen if your face is very small and neat.
Much too unusual. Flaming youth could
When a man you see every day of your life suddenly says: "That's a good ... or a funny queer HAT"; it's high time you had a new one.
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Anybody can buy a hat. It takes time and thought and a friend who than values Truth more highly friendship to choose one.
a whole morning off.
We took
We tried on dozens. Turbans and
get away with it-top hats and Mexican sombreros, but no one else.
K. P. tried this on
"Maybe I ought to try something really startling," said Silvaine, bonnet picking out a blue tulle trimmed with pheasant's feathers.
I have a big head, so it's just cussedness that makes me hanker after doll-size hats. When I found that the straw and ribbon button- hole I was admiring in the glass and felt very glam-case was a hat, I couldn't get to orous. But finally de- the mirror fast enough. cided that she's not quite the type for fruit on top. Our private opinion woman is!
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I put it on straight and looked round for Silvaine.
ed.
"How do you like it?"
I inquir-
"Like what?" she said,
I had to arrange it over my left eyebrow before she noticed it was flower pill-box there at all. Even then she wasn't so complimentary.
that's not small en- to be ough
silly. When it's worn with a. veil, the veil goes at the back.
Hats with an ex- treme over-the-eye angle don't go with glasses.
ex-
Silvaine went into a corner with one of those Abracadabra turbans, and started snake-charming ercises in front of the mirror..
Explained to the milliner that turbans always had that effect on her, and this one was pretty exotic.
I got myself a Dietrich flop off
a stand and trailed round feeling
Casual Shirtwaist-And-Skirt
PARIS SAYS WIDE SUMMER SKIRTS
Thin frocks are being mobilised sheer against hot afternoon, and white stuffs are being pressed into service.
Organdies and chiffons, laces and nets, are fashioning wide-skirted dresses that ripple out over crisp, dark petticoats or pose over flesh- coloured "underpinnings."
are
Sheerest among the sheer navy net day frocks, with pleated neck and skirts and white linen
wrist ties.
From "five to seven" Hourish black lace and short-skirted tulle and mar- quisette styles, with long full sleeves or short puffed ones.
Tucks and pleats play a big part in all these afternoon models, the tucks running across and the pleats Associated lengthwise, says Press message from Paris.
an
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very "femme fatale," until Silvaine began to hum that song about the umbrella man.
We tell you all this because we know there are times when every woman wants the one hat in the whole shop that is wrong for her sort of head.
Outsize women crave for Robin Hood peaks and pocket Venuses cowboy want to swashbuckle in felts.
Tailor-made-and-no-nonsense wo- men ache for violets, and fragile, golden girls think nothing could look so distinguished as a Homburg, In the end we went back to the
sound rules we know and have pro- ourselves a thou- ed for you and sand times.
We chose hats in relation to our noses and our back hair and the width of our shoulders.
We scrutinised them from every angle. Get a three-quarter view on your hat before you buy it
The hat that Silvaine's wearing in the big sketch takes care of her printed frocks and her hot weather. town clothes. It is a Watteau,
My first buy was a slate pencil blue "flower pot" with a flutter of organdi ribbon at the back.
By K. P.
MOPSY GLADY'S PARKER
GLADYS PARKIN
GET OUT OF MY HOUSE, YOU
BURGLAR!