Evening star., 1943-08-13
HeadStart to Fall
By Epelyn Hayes


say you don't care. We all do! The
hats are designed to flatter-and To
fit. Less fussiness and more fit are.
in fact. twin keynotes to the new
fall headgear Hats depend more
on line and color-and less on trim
mings
The new styles are really part of
our design for living. For fall days
when we'll all be doing lot of
walking, there are lots of walking
hats. BY a walking hat, we mean
one that will stay on your head
come hail and high winds. Re-
member how you looked last year
with your bonnet that wouldn't
stay put? Either you walked with
your head jutting forward, ostrich
fashion. in the hope that the angle
would keep your hat on-or else
you just gave in and simply held
on to it,
Well, this years hats-most of
| them-will stay on without your
help. The hat is usually built down
at the back or the sides in some
manner-to make it fit the head
securely. They're designed to stay
on in defiance of bus jostlers, too.
To punctuate the simplicity of the
new suits and dresses, there are
dashing little fedoras, postillions,
pillboxes-and Of course your be-
loved beret. Berets are definitely
with us again. You can have your
beret small, medium or large. rang
ing from a minuscule number, per-
haps of quilted velvet, to large f1at
disc topped by a tassel A slightly
peaked Chinese crown adds new
note to some berets and pillboxes.
Other berets tilt towards your eye.
You'll like the bumper berets, too,
especially if you wear pompadour.
These look Smartest set straight on
your head. One new bumper beret
rims black felt disc with velvet,
and has mesh backpiece to Sc
cure it to the head, while another
has tiny strips of self-colored felt
pulled through it in tiny bow
knots all over, giving a very new sur
lace interest.
You'll be glad to know you can
still wear your favorite calot.
They're just as good as ever for
both day and evening, getting their
new look via front height which is
achieved with trimmings, upstand-
ing feathers and flowers, bows and
wells. Conservation Tip: Take that
last years calot, buy q bird or a
feather-or cut some out of felt
and let them shoot up from the
front of your calot. Do it well-and
no one would guess you didn't just
buy the little number. but don't
tell your milliner we told you'd
For late afternoon and evening,
when you want to look your most
glamorous, when you want to make
short work of captivating That Man,
there are little CONNECTIONS that
must have been designed in con-
spiracy with Cupid. Tiny light
hearted little hats made of velvet
in beautiful color combinations.
Sometimes they're no more than
just little feather fancies such as
one we saw that was an oval calot
ito set between the wings of your
upswept hair made of red ostrich,
its only trimming tiny black vel
vet curncue. Another we liked was
a small black velvet pillbox with q
"brirn" made of Pierrot rufles OF
black chenille dotted yelling
fashion trick" you might try your
self on small velvet pillbox. IN
cidentally, if you're a smart girl,
you'll buy lacy veil right now,
keep it in your desk drawer to con-
vert your calot or pillbox to
glamour hat on short notice.
Wells, praise be, are not as over
powering as they have been (regu-
lations took care of thatD. So If
you're buying a veil, don't buy too
much; it will look neither smart nor
new. The new hats have proved
that little yelling goes long way.
Along with excess veilings, silly
little conversation pieces are out.
This is no time after all to. have
hat that isn't hat. Real hats
are here to stay-to stay on your
heads. And secretly we wonder
what cliche the men will have to
substitute for, DO you call THAT q
hat2"