Judge — September 19, 1931 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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and always appeared ready for instant \ transatlantic flight. Nobody being able to do anything about it, this men: | state of affairs continued until 1910 when the Merry Widow came in—that In Your Hat “tere sailor hat that looked about as alwave been MCTEY as Carri ion with an ax. ; ; 3 Since this hat suspicion that jarge, floppy hat, bristling with hat- what women )¥ EAS: sand imi side of thers, tre ‘ ‘ swungaround the level? (ane 7 . sides of the nec ear (well, there are various sizes had long flopping It was impossible to get near a woman with such a top-pie ateicike name otherwise) heads the hatpins would have withstood a )etvaitthe name they tried to naval attack on Riverside Drive. Hits Tdid most make up on the Feathers followed and it beeame of the anithme outside. Hence common to sce the wireless hat—three ee ite “EN CEMT Busy the silly, wonder- Jong, skinny feathers—and women Women get YU FIND IN, ful invention were lost in all sorts, varieties and STah et ia carters! ting tired of imi- ing prohibition snoopers (wearing known as the Hat, sometimes referred to as the Chapeau, Kelly, Lid, Con- fection, Latest Creation or Marcel the hat induced this strange feeling), Trap, and which in its day has had its around jong came the cloche ups and downs as to shape, size, em- hat, neat, close-fitting, sufficient, bellishment, looniness, smell, style art and eve gnadvattrachiechea: ; rhe only menace attached Lately, however, ladies’ hats have 3 hat, was the invention of the grown less practical. They have been ig”, used to describe it. growing lesa beautiful call the ‘thine But since women are funny things and as they are constantly covering and life is a kick in the pants, and, less ground there is a danger of their not satisfied with this noodle box disappearing altogether. Which will (after all, men have practically stuck make the hat business just like any to the same hats throughout the ages), other business and not’ only put. so hats got to growing smaller and small- any people Out of work but lead to er—auntil someone had a bad dream or a ghastly display of ten-dollar mar- some historian turned milliner, and cels, which would be a loathsome state out came the Empress Eu jungles of bird overcoatings. ‘This continued until soft-headed editorial writers commented bitterly on the ter- of affairs, to say the least. Something, One-Eyed Connolly hat. then, must be done to save the hat, if Now, however, this is about to only the worst. It must come out on top. go the way of all fashions—into the Let's look back over contemporary ashean and the whimsy cartoons of hat history and get a cross-eyed bird’s the Yorker. In other words, view of what's been what: Reba, Goldie and Betty and Steno Back in 1900 they wore what their have discovered the Empress and are i} grandmamas told them: percherons, — tible havoc that the birdy hat had on — not only making the landscape hideous } airs that perched like a bird on the home life of the egret, I can't fig- with her memory, but giving her an | a single empire state tower of hair ure whom this hat was harder on—the awful second death. It is possible to j bird or the looker-on. The looker-on, I buy these hats for $1—90c for the 1 think. The bird was dead. So woman — shape and a dime for a Woolworth | ) ] gave up this hat and became a Woman feather, and there you are, all ready | | with No Egrets, for a date with Louis Cans, girls! | ; About 1922 they dug up the old Now, what to do, what to do? Ob- bones of an Egyptian deity—King viously when every woman in the Tut—and what could be a more ap- world is dressed and hatted like every propriate way of celebrating this ter- other woman, women get to look like rific event t by woman adorning hell (they think) and other women. her sweet nut with a King Tut hat? The hat designers are out of ideas So the Egyptian hat, which varied and hats must go on, if only over one from true Egyptian simplicity to any- eye, one nostril and the opposite thing with a piece of tomb hung on it — shoulder, which seems to be a new idea —just to give that little bit of gen- right away. uineness to the thing. And tho you ‘As per usual, may made strange Egyptian old Jr. is right sounds at the sight of this hat—it was — there with some important—it really marked the birth dandy ideas. I've of the modern hat. gone to the office Then came the Lindbergh (you re- encyclopacdia member him; he was a glider or ski- (fighting my way jumper, or something) and the aviator — thru thousands of hat suddenly circled round and fell on people anxious to woman’s head. The Lindbergh hat use it) and after | gave way to a Hat which completely (Continued on Hat concealed the female pink shell of an page 28) 1a 22 comicbooks.com