Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 289, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1919 — IS THE SMALL HAT DOOMED? [ARTICLE]

IS THE SMALL HAT DOOMED?

Indication Favorable to Broadness Through Hips Points to Wide or Tall Headgear. There are some smart women who never feel smartly dressed for the street unless they are wearing a small hat. This does not mean that the small hat is any smarter —simply that some women feel smarter when wearing it, and there is no denying the fact that it is vastly easier to keep one’s locks trim and in place under a small hat than a large one. Undoubtedly it would be very hard for a good many women ever to give up the small hat. Yet there are times when small hats are quite out of fashion. A couple of decades ago no one but old women in their weeds wmre small hats, and those small hats were bonnets. When the so-called toque came in it was a real novelty. And there are those who say that with the dress silhouette tending whither it now is the small hat will simply have to go. If we are to wear skirts that give the "effect of broadness through the hips we will look

absurd in our small hats. The only way to finish the picture us it should be finished will be to wear widebrimmed hats or very tall hats. The very high headdress of the period of Louis XV in France Was worn to counteract the dwarfing effect of the widehipped pannier frock and when full skirts were in vogue some twelve or fifteen years ago hats that were extremely wide —so wide that you could not have worn one into a telephone booth without holding your head sidewise—came into vogue.