Foreign cooks from mountain districtsrare surprised that any rationing of butter should be necessary in this country. They themselves would have been all their winters through hair-ribbon in colour. will-o'-the-wisp evening snoods, cages for the hair made in net dotted with sequins, some with tiny sequined net boleros to match. Or again there are mere transparencies of net snoods topped with just a bunch of roses and gardenias with bows of velvets, in which to go dancing with the men on leave. This is the kind of "hat" which is worn at, say, the Embassy, where tails, white ties, and evening decollete is seen some nights and yet remains the exception, Cover-up Turbans There are also many turbans for the tea dance, some in velvet, many in silk jersey, which is elastic enough to be stretched to go over the hair without disturbing a curl, though the entire head is covered. The jersey tulle or velvet is knotted above the brow and worn back from it, showing a triangle of hair and no more. A turban of this kind in black satin ribbon has two huge gold clips above the centre ofthe forehead.
In small daytime shapes the caps jut well forward, slope away at the back of the head, disappearing into the snoods which conceal the back hair, snoods which also may be made of the fine jersey with an elastic quality, again tied at the back of the head with a bow in the manner of a one-time schoolgirl's hair.
Apart from these "party hats" this shop, like others, reports a steady sale in mink hats, made to match the fur coats which are still being sold at such remarkable prices, far below that, for example, which American women have to pay.
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