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Show I The Small Hat. To be truly smart, the small hat must top a beautifully arranged head of naturally nat-urally thick hair, full of lluffiness or soft but natural-looking waves. The hair must have lustre also. The skin must at least be clear, if not blooming. The face should be rounded and well cov- cred with flesh, not fat and pudgy or thin and razorlike. The neck, if showing show-ing at all, as it often is with the round-neeked round-neeked frocks, must be full and graceful. grace-ful. This does not mean that the woman wo-man of middle age may not wear it, for if she have a clear complexion and unwrinkled skin and her hair be white " or silver gray, nothing prettier than a small black hat can be imagined. These small black hats are also charming on bloilde hair and auburn, or blonde or bronze tones. At the moment most of the modes of email hats are black, in fact the great ' majority of hats seen where fashionable fashion-able women meet are black. The turbans and toques, which are referred to above as "small hats," are on those who can wear them extremely extreme-ly becoming. They makeythe short woman wo-man look taller, but tall women should beware, as they often accentuate their " height, and if the tall woman be also thin, she looks like an exclamation point, and, if fat, quite comical. So many things have to be considered in choosing a hat. Often one is compelled, com-pelled, unless thoy order a hat made especially to suit their requirements, to Wear what is somewhat becoming in order to be appropriately dressed for traveling or shopping. In such cases, however, a becomingly arranged veil will work wonders, and this need not necessarily cover the eyes, thereby injuring in-juring them, for say what one may for the beauty of a veil, it js bound to injure in-jure the eyes unless worn when auto-mobiling. auto-mobiling. when, if goggles are not donned, a veil is the lesser of two evils, dust or veil. The all-flower toque and also the hats of middle size covered closely with flowers flow-ers arc being offered in some of the smart shops. Whore one can have a number of hats these arc very pretty. |