Hats by Hilda Amphlett

Author:Hilda Amphlett
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780486136585
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-10-23T04:00:00+00:00

By way of contrast note the restraint of the style adopted by the French artist, Madame Labelle-Giuard, in Fig. 381. Daintily curled hair is balanced by a wide straw hat with judiciously few ribbons at one side and one ostrich feather and a little aigrette at the other.

In Fig. 382, from Sweden, we again have high-piled hair but this time draped with a fascinator of net and ribbon, decorated with shell-like twists of what may be ribbon or fabric. Voluminous hair-styles could display such fascinators and lace scarves to advantage. A black lace mantilla typical of Spain is so worn in Fig. 383. It is held in place by a comb, itself decorated with rosettes of ribbon and lace.

In the last decade of the century the feminine addiction to men’s hat styles we saw earlier is still very evident, as may be readily seen in Fig. 384. Here the Countess of Tyrcomil favours a tall masculine type hat enhanced by a rosette in front and displaying the usual ostrich feathers drooping gracefully over the top of the crown. Her wig is tied with ribbon bows, in the manner of her husband’s, and her coat, masculine in cut, sets off the mannish hat. That such an outfit was planned for travelling is stressed by the large woolly muffler swathed round the throat. She is thus ready to face the gales in the strait or the highwayman on the heath.

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