THE LADIES’ WORLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2759, 7 February 1910, Page 3

THE LADIES’ WORLD.

HATS IN PARIS. The battle of large hat or small hat Still wages, says a writer in a Homo proper. To show how far it, is front being settled, let me describe a model hat which had just arrived from Paris on the day that I got a glimpse of it. It was worn at one of the smart weddings of the week, s,o its up-to-dateness cannot be questioned. It was in pale green beaver, the rim, which tilted slightly upon front, curved out at the sides and back until it was, at least, a yard in circumference. It was trimmed with a bird of paradise, whose ‘sweeping plumes fell over the brim, 'wide as it was.

A very large rosette of dull steel, passementerie with cords, which were continued round the crown, was the only other ornamentation. Let me add that ■there was a large, high, round-shaped crown, and it will he seen that the large hat at its extremest point of exaggeration is still with us.

TURBANS

Nevertheless there is hardly a question as to the popularity of the small hat. A few fine days at this time or year sends hundreds of women hat-buy. \ ng—a hat cannot be selected with comfort in fog or drizzle, so I made inquiries in various directions as to the general tendency. And from everywhere came the reply “We are selling nothing but small hats”—that is, small in comparison to last winter. There are also signs of a return to sanity as regards shape and becomingness, the buabv, the wastepaper basket, ami the beehive ,no longer serve as models; even the exaggerations of the tricorne, in spite of its recent annearahee, are being - pressed. The shape that at the momei:; finds most favor is a turban resembling a huge royal crown. The rim is a deep hand of jet, with oxidised jewelled, or gold trimming, while the soft crown stands rather high and curves out like the regal head-dress.

A PRETTY HAT. Perhaps the prettiest bat I saw- in my peregrinations was a small shape in violet beaver. It bad a round, turned-up brim, one side being higher than the other. A peculiarity of the beaver was that- when you looked at it in some lights it was blue—an effect produced by a certain disposition of the long hair of the felt. The trimming was of pansies, without foliage, and this wreath was so thick that it covered all the right side of the hat, and every shade from pale blue to purple was introduced in the dowers.

On the left- side was a bow of green velvet with upstanding butterfly wings.

NOVELTIES IN FUR

Afore popular, however than contrasts in trimming is the combination of two shades of the same color. In a brawn velvet hac, for instance, the brim was of dark brown and the cro\?n of a much lighter shade.

Then the introduction of black is managed with great skill. For a girl with lair hair what could be more bccomiii" than a hat of pale rose velvet, the turned-down brim lined with black satin and the crown trimmed with black satin and with a huge paw of rose velvet with black satin lining? As I mentioned in a iormer article, every variety of finis used for the new toques,,but each day sees new ideas in trimming. An ermine toque will have a bird either in white, in brown, or in black; on ,i chinchilla! toque. I have seen a grey bird or Mso wings of bright emerald green. In a similar manner the drak fur toque will either have something exactlv the same shade, or pure white.

TH E BEST EXERCISE FOR WOM EN

Walking is the best- ex ere be lor •women, says a 1 physician. It brings into play every muscle without sti .-lining any, and it is an exercise that poor women as well as rich can take. Do I approve of horseback riding and golf ? Yes, to a certain extent; but if women only knew it. the best aid to a good figure and good complexion is a brisk walk in the sunlight. It is difficult to give any specified number of miles or hours for a woman to walk. A good rule i.s to walk until she is just short of being tired, and always to walk in proper dress—no trailing skirts, thin shoes, or feather-trimmed hats. The theory of walking before breakfast is wrong. The healthiest woman can’t stand walking on an empty stomach.