Alma College - Almafilian Yearbook (St Thomas, Ontario Canada)

Page 22 text:

HATS Hats Now, it's perfectly all right for Mr. Will Shakespeare to have Juliet say, WWhat's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.W And even though this is not a discussion of that subtle literary point, Wwhether a rose always smells like a rosen, an application can be drawn very readily from that quotation. For a thoroughly sane person today would never say, WWhat's in a hat?n--at least a thoroughly sane person of feminine leanings. As the saying goes, there are hats and hats. That is a rather ob- vious statement, I think, and scarcely a subject for debate. Proof: Just take a day, any old day on Fifth Avenue, Michigan Boulevard or even Talbot Street, and what do you see? Flower pots to the right of you, mushrooms to the left of you, and veils all around you. That all, of course, if the day is fine. Dull, drippy weather, on the other hand, brings with it its own array of hats. For discussion purposes, shall we divide our hats into two classes. A. Hats for Sunny Weather. fNote: These hats must never be worn on days that are not sunny, for, although rain is very good for the flowers and shrubbery worn aloft, it is decidedly bad for the feathers and veil- ing. One cannot have that well groomed appearance, and at the same time look like a bedraggled roosterd For sunny days there are hats to suit all moods, to fit all occa- sions, and to enhance everyone's peculiar type of beauty. However, in gazing over the specimens bought, one is practically forced to admit that any logical ideas about hats are quickly abandoned, when a woman, of a spring day, decides that the thing to pep her up is a new hat. What does one see as the result of such a spree? On the market, in the midst of cabbages and onions one is very apt to find suitable little numbers with feathers that shoot off X at a tangent and all but blind the passers-by. There is often x NX a spotted veil, which obscures the vision and ff T X R increases faulty buying. What's even worse LL3.g- f'Y. is that garden party type of hat, that causes all to walk in single file because of the hazards in passing. N 25

Page 24 text:

And there is nothing quite like a poke-bonnet J affect with a bantam rooster's tail hoisted on behind. And, too, what can be more convenient than going out to a tea in an old fashioned motoring hat? Even upside down flower-pots are risky enough when one is balancing a teaoup and being animated, too, in an effort to keep up with that new creation. It is in class B. CHats for Rainy Weather! that one finds the staid element which proves that our fair sex is fundamentally conser- vative. Why? Rain hats are usually last year's felt model. And what is more conservative than a hat of last season? M. L. Neville. 24