The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1931-12-20


in a brimmed hat that is defin-
itely Sixteenth century, and trail
down the aisle at the theatre in
a luscious velvet and plume crea-
ton as feminine and old fashioned
as wasp waists and bustles.
Hats in Holiday Mood
This question of holiday hats
has become of late more and
more complicated. In the good old
days woman changed from
straw to velvet in October and
back to straw again at Easter. But
today, what with fashion, like
everything else, keyed up to in
credible speed, hats turn spring
minded even while we are still
shoveling snow and ordering a new
supply of coal for the rest of the
winter. And by Christmas week
one finds the winter hat bought
with such relish but two months
ago, sorry out-of-shape, out-of-
fashion CID thing, and entertains
delicious thoughts of crisp new
straws and spring styles.
Thus most hats bought at just
this time of year must have a dis
tinctly festive mood. They are
usually bright, cuddly little hats
aglow with metal cloth and soft
ened by dabs of fur, such as give
any costume that "dressed-up'
look. Or else they are advance
spring models, sleek straws, dark
colored and tailored so as to be
suitable for both spring and win
ter, novel enough to be highly ex-
citing.
/ This year all hats are very, very
festive. This was especially true
at the beginning of the fall sea-
son. The Empress Eugene may
have designed her beplumed velvet
toque as riding hat, but on the
modern woman it always has a
party hat" look. MEANWHILE, fol-
I lowing the general trend toward
period StlyeS, designers have intro
duced fashions borrowed from even
more remote times than the Nine
tenth century, no less romantic
than the Empress Eugene, but
certainly more wearable for many
women. Felt, too practical a mate
rial to be long neglected, has come
back into high favor, and hats
once more have descended to the
tailored level of our practical
workaday world Still, whether by
ribbons or fur trimming, or just
new dash of the inevitable dip
over one eye, they remain exciting,
romantic little hats waiting to
meet the festive mood of the holi-
day buyer.
Sixteenth Century Brims
Perhaps the very newest thing in
hats is that borrowed from the
longest ago. The little page who
carried milady's train at Sixteenth
century court receptions wore a
soft velvet hat with a shallow cir
cular crown gathered into a
straight brim and generous os-
trich plume somewhere above it,
Look at the latest 1882 models:
shallow circular crowns "bloused"
down into brims that, thanks to
the revival of sailor shapes last
fall, are the same width all around.
Just over the right eye, as special
concession to the Empress, the
brim dips downward, and the lit
tie page boys plume has become
a feather fancy jutting straight up
or out, right above the dip.
Sometimes you will find this hat
without its brirn, nothing more
than an old fashioned tam oshan-
ter, worn well to one side of the
head and set off with the usual
feathers.
Brlms, of any kind, are some
thing to watch when buying your
new hat They take a variety of
shapes, but they always swoop
down over one eye Sometimes
there is no brim at the back, but
a vizor-like attachment in the
front that covers most of the fore
head; sometimes the brim is stiff
and rolled, as in modified derbies
and bowlers; usually the are
fastened to crown so shallow !
that the whole hat gives the pan i