Buying a new hat, like marriage, if undertaken in haste is likely to the repented at leisure, Also, in its own way, choosing a hat, like choosing a husband, demands—considerable deliberation, Never undertake to buy a hab} when you feel rived or out of sort: Ig you want the milliner to give you her best service you shoald not /—Yisit her when she is sure By w the business of choosing a hat, be sure that "your hair is becomingly arranged. Some women feel that they' should make no effort to look their est when buying a hat, since they want a hat that will look becoming at all times. But the trouble is that ff you attempt to buy a hat when your hair is untidy and your face Shows fatigue' no hat. will look b coming, and you will feel so couraged that you will buy no hat all or in desperation choose a hat} at random just to have the unpleasant business over with.
Before starting out on this important business you should have a definite idea of the colour scheme of your spring wardrobe, Usually. the first hat you will want at this time is one that may be worn with winter clothes on cooler days or! with the lighter-weight ensemble that you will choose or have chosen for early spring. Many _women therefore select a black hat for this first hat of the that it will go well with anything. well to have at least a general idea about the shape that is like-|, ly to prove becoming. By this time: you doubtless know whether your features are regular enough and your forehead smooth enough to permit you to wear a decidedly off-the-face type of hat. For late wint-jer and spring wear there are hats shading the forehead that are quite as smart as those of the more trying sort.
There is in fact an unusually wide variety of hats from which to choose. If ever there was a type jof hat for every type of face it is ut the present time. One way of finding out which shape is most becoming is to find it diverting to try it also. She studies the new! shapes, as you may study them from the drawings shown on this page. She then takes 2 photograph herself and makes a tracing of the outlines of the head. With this it not difficult to make quick sketches of the different possible shapes in the right size. It is then a simple matter to cut out these hat shapes and try them on simply by laying
graph, them over the head in the photo
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