June 1945 School Magazine

'Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Magazine

June , 1945

Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Magazine

June, 1945

HATS. Nearly all modem hats may be placed in one of two categories-those tho:t are hardly visible and those that are very visible indeed. There is lit tie to,._ say, or see, about the first kind. They usually are made of two or three pink or yellow felt flowers fastened around the head by a strip of purple felt (this part certainly is seen); or else they have a small crown, three or four inches in diameter, with a frilled brim an inch wide. These are always worn over one eye. It is "bad form" not to do so. Of the ·obvious type of hat, the most common are those with a nature study effect. These consist of masses of fruit (artificial, of course) or flowers, balanced with fine judgment on top of the head, and often overflowing into a large brim of black lac~ with a carrot-leaf design to heighten the effect. A delightful hat is made by fastening a miniature bird of Para- dise to the front, and allowing the tail to wave, plume-like, in the air several feet overhead. Hats are to be found all shapes and size·s, from those that seem to represent a wedding-cake (three tiers, with pink icing) to those that are impossible to guess-something surrealistic perhaps~ But surely nothing could surpass the one I saw re- cently which looked rather like a native "dilly-bag" worn in- verted with a few artificial flowers fastened on one side. The owner apparently thought it very smar t, and probably admired the Egyptian effect produced; I saw her posing in an attitude usually attributed to the Sphinx. One shudders to think what hats of the future w ill be like: Perhaps in the years to come we will see a stuffed rooster or a branch of a rose-tree (thorns included) decorating a hat, or perhaps a black velvet map of Aus tralia fas tened with the G reat Australian Bight curving over the crown.

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-J. Herbert, V.B.

am the torturer of the guilty. I may be the refuge of the idle. I am the haunt of the poet, And the creator of Fae ry. In me, the weary find relaxation,

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1DELL CROKER- V.A.

The ambitious, inspiration, And the desperate, hope. 1 am Imagination.

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