The Archive · 1926

Home Notes on Spring Hats

DARES'

The new hats are still as small in jcireumference ax the little felt shapes we have grown so weary of; but they make up for this by added height. Even the felt ones have high crown of the shape called square," but varied by casual-_ ooking folds and swellings which fare quite new. The straw shapes follow the same high tone, with the edge of the top of the crown pinch-all round to give it further em-given & cunning turn or {wi Spot most suited to the The smartest shapes are thave sell of grosgrain ribbon, also gh crownsd and narrow of brim, the ribbon deftly used to form crisp outlines, frequently making a brim, which, although quite narrow front, suddenly widens and becomes very high and_upstandin th back. Most of these ribbon shapes are built with a tendency to height Jat the back, and are left untrimmed except for perhaps the addition of more ribbon in another colour or in another shade of the self-colour, For a between-seasons hat there is

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