The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-10-16
Cbe Hrt Of
Putting
On a Dat

Women might be divided into two
classes, according to the way In which
they put on their hats. There Is the
class that looks ON a hat as something
to cover the head, and there is the
class that looks on hat as an added
crown to woman's browning glory.
Watch different women put their
hats on. 1t is not the time they take
In doing the trick that counts. Look at
the clever young stenographer who
dresses smartly on surprisingly small
sum a week. When the Office clock
strikes 5 she grabs her hat firmly by
the crown, puts it on a little at the
back of her head and pushes 1t deftly
forward so that her hair slips softly
about her face, thrusts in a couple OF
well chosen pins and in three minutes
is ready to start home and, moreover,
to vie In smartness with the woman OF
fashion she passes in the street.
Watch the woman who has more
money to buy clothes than knack OF
wearing them. Perhaps she spends
fifteen minutes before her mirror put
ting on her hat. But she takes the hat
by the brim to begin with. Then she
begins to put it on at the front, not the
back. She pulls it over her forehead,
knowing that the hat should be tilted
over the face, and what Is left Of 1t
covers the back of the head. She pulls
a few strands of hair from under the
hat to cover her forehead. And then
she gazes at the front of the hat and
her face In the mirror. Then she jabs
a couple of Intellectual hatpins into the
crown of her hat, and the fifteen min
ute task is finished.
The smart woman goes about the
work of putting her hat on properly
with her eyes open. She never depends
on random effects, but even if she does
spend only two minutes in the task she
works systematically to get her hat on
the right way.
To begin with, the hat must fit. Mil
liners will tell you that hat, especial
" a small one, should really be fitted to
the head as carefully as gloves or shoes
are fitted, respectively, to the hands or
feet.
The smart woman always puts her
hat on from the back forward. You
know how milliners, when they are try
ing hat on you, always grasp it firmly
and press it over the back Of the head,
then bring it forward. This pushes the
loose hair forward naturally. If you
it back it draws the front hair in, and
it has to be fiuffed out later.
The smart woman seldom shows
much of her forehead when she has her
hat on, even In these days, when the
forehead dares show itself, because the
smart woman knows she looks better
in this way than with her forehead
bare.
The smart woman has mirrors ar
ranged so that she can see her hat on
her head from every angle. Perhaps
the hat that looks well from the front
looks anything but well from the back,
and often one side Of hat is becoming
and the other is decidedly ugly.
Moreover. the smart woman never
buys hat without seeing how it looks
in relation to her whole figure. The
very tall woman with a small face may
look well enough in a very small hat
when you see only her head. But the
tiny hat perched atop her long figure
looks quite ridiculous. So, too, the
short, fat woman with a small face
may look well, so far as her head is
concerned, in the broad, dropping hat,
but the broad and dropping hat empha-
sizes the broad and dropping lines of
her figure most unbecomingly.
The smart woman uses plenty of pins.