An Air of Adventure Seen in Autumn Hats Now that the couture has decided en the lines of next winter's silhouette, it is the turn of the milliners to determine the line of the hat. Everywhere the word is that hats must be dégagé; in other words, madam's bonnet of the autumn has an air'of adventure, writes Virginia Pope from Paris to the New York "Times." It rises with a gesture of gaiety. Crowns mount, turbans are tall and brims are on the upturn.
Even berets have taken to the air. Some are made into halos. Agnès has one indented at one side like a heart that is raised at the back on a deep bandeau draped with jersey having a loose end hanging over the hair.
Molyneux's beret scoops upward at the front, where is placed a pert bow. Louise Bourbon has a square one of scarlet suède with a magnificent black tassel falling from the centre over the right ear.
The cutest ofall of Suzy's glorified French sailors is a cap having two strings hanging in front of the left ear, each tasseled with a tail of fur. Moleskin dyed the softest bronze green for a tam-o-shanter is a Schiapacelli invention. There are also stiff ones in plaid to go with Whats new at Madame Suzys? A Vermeer turban taken right off the head of his portrait of a young woman. It is close-fitting with a twist of fabric at the top and a long end hanging down the back. Suzy coifs modern misses in a black felt version with a draped scarf of white jersey. Her youngest hats have rounded crowns with forward jutting visor brims made of two or more colours for sporty outfits or are trimmed with fur for suits, They must be pulled over one eye with the wicked slant of an apache's cap.
Louise Bourbon's favourite colour is bronze green. She has an enchanting bacchanalian model made with a cluster of red and green grapes at the front of the high crown and a brim narrow at the sides.. Some of her high toques have a tornado look—blown to one side. Whether in a toque or a bonnet the manipulation. is up. Talbot shows very grande dame hats with Directoire silhouette having high crowns and narrow sides and worn very far forward.
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