The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-10
Mkki KnOz0S Her Hats and Tells Her
Patrons Just HOzU TO Wea1. Them
BY JULIA BLANSHARD
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NEW YORK, March 10.-The
smartest Easter bonnet in the
world can't make you stop the
fashion parade unless you know
just how to put it on
That is the admonition of Nicole
Of New York and Paris, milliner
de luxe, who hats an impressive list
Of celebrities and is Just as apt as
not to give, along with hat advice,
valuable pointers on what clothes,
coiffures, colors and perfumes you
should use to get your mani"
Always put your hats on from
the back forward" is her first rule
Of chapeau chic.
"Put your right thumb exactly
in the middle of the front edge Of
the crown and hold it there with
your first finger inside the crown, -
Nicole specifically directs you.
Put your left thumb exactly in
the middle of the back and hold it
there firmly with your first finger
inside the crown.
Be a Wee Bit Wicked
Now plant your left thumb firm
ly against the center of the back
Of your head, your hat suspended
perpendicularly, and hold it!
Calculate at just what angle
your hat should slant and with
YOU right hand, still holding the
center front firmly, pun the hat for
ward and down.
IF you yourself admit that your
mirrored portrait insinuates that
you are just little bit wicked, then
your hat is at its right angle!"
Nicole's last bit of advice is:
Never leave a shop content until
you have put your new chapeau
on several times and your milliner
personally has told you just how it
should be worm
OF course, receiving such an opin-
ion from Nicole herself may not
be so easy. For once you ask her
advice, you get it! She is refresh
ingly frank. And naughtily gay in
the way she tells you what's what
and why.
She Likes or Hates You
Meeting her for the first time
is usually as devastating as tor
nado. She is terribly impulsive.
Her likes and dislikes are as in
tensely Partisan as she herself is.
If she likes you, she calls you by
your first name at sight. If she
doesn't, you are Madame" and
on some pretext or other she will
get one of her clerks to wait on
you.
Go to her in your oldest frock,
with tired down-at-th e-heels
feeling and the conviction that you
never we're more badly dressed.
She will diagnose your face and
your needs at once and make your
round face oval or your thin face
rounded, with just the right high
hat or bit of brim.
Her def fingers will take a SHIN
mering length of chartreuse ribbon,
a cartwheel of black, and make
hat that will transform you into the
femme fatale of your dreams and
make you peep happily at yourself
in every shop window you pass.
New to Business
The strange part about Nicole's
success is that she has been in bus
mess only comparatively short
time. Ask her how she came by
her talent and she will shrug her
expressive shoulders and say that
women from the south of France
are noted for their marvellous COM
plexions and gifted fingers.
In Pau, where she lived, the
daughter of a large and wealthy
family, she used to be called upon
to arrange the bridal wells of all
the village girls. She always has
made her own hats and her sisters.
When the war broke out, she
came to America to raise money
for the French Red Cross at the
instigation of the Marquis Fabre
de Parell, her brother in-law.
One taste of New York and o.
year-old Nicole had found an en-
Vironment vigorous enough, young
and hopeful enough to want it for
her own. She came back after the
war and later opened her typically
French salon where buying a hat
is ritual and an education in chic.
Celebrities Her Patrons
To her hat shop with its sub
dued green coloring, it's chastely
French furnishings and decorations,
many celebrities flock, including the
Grand Duchess Marie of Russia,
Frieda Hempel, Joan Crawford, Ina
Claire, Kay Francis, Lilyan Tash-
man.
To them all she is "Nikki," and
none is too famous to have "Nikki'
give her angles of chic on how the
new hats should be worn.
Though Nicole has heard about
the depression this winter, among
her early spring hats were several
with jeweled ornaments that sew
eral well-known actresses bought
for $4,000 each.
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