There are a few fundamental rules from which those who wish to be smart should never deviate.
1. Never hide yourself under a large hat if you are small.
2. Wear a rather large, striking hat if you are very tall.
3. Make sure that the hat, if it is a toque, or the crown of the hat, if it is a hat with a brim, is at least as wide as your face. Otherwise, you will seem to have am abnormally large countenance.
4. No matter how young or old you may be.- never wear a toque that does not shade the eyes the least little bit: this always softens the expression.
If one follows these few important rules, there is little chance that one will make a mistake in the selection of a hat.
The French, men -and women alike, are inclined to wear hats that are too small; in fact, one often wonders if the former are not wearing their little brothers' chapeaux by mistake. This does not mean, however, that one must go to the other extreme and bury oneself beneath a hat in the style of certain gentlemen of old, which might necessitate making two peep-holes in the crown in order to see where one was going. Extremes of every kind are to be avoided F. in "Vogue."
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