A young woman staggered out of the sea across the sands at Ryde and fell into the arms of a taxi-driver. "I have just swum from Southsea and I am very cold she said. The taxi-driver wrapped her in his- coat and hurried her to a cafe for hot drinks.
She rewarded him with a moist 10s. hate preserved in her swimming dress and returned next day to Hayling Island none the worse.
She is an Austtian parlour maid named Louise Horner in service at Hayling Island, and long filled with the ambition to swim from Southsea to the Isle of Wight The evening before last she deposited her clothes under the pier and started off, alone, and having told no one. Twice she was nearly run down in the dark by steamers. The distance is miles. but complicated by bad currents, and she took five hours over it. A marvellous performance. Surely she is wasted on perlourmaiding. newest contribution is made with a point that folds forward and is held with a ribbon bow. Now it is her whim to put coloured bows (she has a preference for terra cotta) on black hats. They stick out like little wings on either side of the slightly cloche brim óf a hat having a tall chimney-pot crown.
No one enjoys putting contrasting ribbons on felts more than Descat.
On sport hats One finds violet on green. tangerine on brown and rust on gray. This designer has something new to say about crowns, for She makes them on a square finished with a band of grosgrain ribbon at ihe top and bottom; the upper one fuses above the edge of the felt so that its facing of tangerine shows. She likes diagonally draped crowns or crowns with folds worked from side to side. Rose Valois handles felt like fabric, working it into a wavy brim and bow.
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