The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 20, 1931, Page 34

2 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SUNDAY, DEC. 20, 1931. O FOUR MORE DAYS TO SHOP T L L L L T T T L T L GIFT GGESTIONS Timely Suggestions for the late Christmas Shopper For Everyone---- CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS Wreaths Foxtails Tinsel Ribbon l«jor the C’lildren" Seals Cards Tags Ornaments Fancy Hose FANCY GIFT PAPER Chite Dresses For Her- For Him-- Shoes g i Lounging Robe Toys The Fgmmn.\c Gift Pajamas Dolls - pen Silk Shirt Games Chiffon Hosiery Handkerchiefs Gloves Silk Umbrella Hand Bag Balls Bow Ties Ties Silk Sox Driving Gloves Fur Cap For Dad- Perfume Sweater £ - ; Negligees Collar Bag Middishade Suit Dainty Silk Gown Silk Hakdkerchiof Overcoat Hat Bag Leather Belt \ ) Shoes Wardrobe Trunk Ao i ; Bathrobe Giitters Muffler Shirt Wool Gloves Felt Slippers For the Home-- Handkerchief Cases Lovely Draperies For a Friend- L T S LR LT T LT Curtains Table Linen Ash Trays s; Blankdetg Double Deck Cards For Mother- Sheets and Cases . Comforts Gill]:tt(e:al;:ors Silk Dress Towels and Towel Golf Hosge : Winter Coat Sets g New Hat Bath Mats Suit Case S Shaving Set Combination Set Vanity Cedar Chest Fancy Powder Puff Atomizer Compact Bed Spreads Bridge Tables China Tea Sets Brass Candlesticks Painted Pottery Rugs Bathrobe Silk and Wool Hose Scarf Comfy Slippers Zippers LU L T T T T T T T T T T e T T T L T T O T LT T UL Tlllllll"ll"“""lllllIlllll|||IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII|IIII||||IIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII LU T T T T For the Baby- Hose Gertrudes Blankets Sweaters Dresses Bootees Baby Books Coats Rattles : LLLLCELCL UL T LT LT T OO T T UL TR LT T LT B. M. Behrends Co., Inc. Juneau’s L.eading Department Store HO can doubt this is a fast-moving age when fashion is able to crowd into a single five months the millinery styles of almost as many centuries? Five months ago every the Empress Eugenie; today we set out to do our Christmas shopping in a trim little tricorn of Eighteenth century in- = = = woman of us was back in the middle Nineteenth century with = = spiration, entertain our holiday guests at the club luncheon in a brimmed hat that is defin- tely Sixteenth century, and trail lown the aisle at the theatre in luscious velvet and plume crea- tion as feminine and old fashioned as wasp waists and bustles. Hats in Holiday Mood This question of holiday hats has become of late more and ore complicated. In the good old ays a woman changed from traw to velvet in October and ck to straw again at Easter. But today, what with fashion, like everything else, keyed up to in- red-ible speed, hats turn spring- inded even while we are still hoveling snow and ordering a new upply of coal for the rest of the vinter. And by Christmas week me finds the winter hat bought ith such relish but two months go, a sory out-of-shape, out-of- i lelicious ughts of crisp new traws and spring styles. Thus most hats bought at just his time of year must have a dis- == |tinctly festive mood. They are = usually bright, cuddly little hats == aglow with metal cloth and soft- == |ened by dabs of fur, such as give = any costume that “dressed-up” == look. Or else they are advance E spring models, sleek straws, dark == colored and tailored so as to be E suitable for both spring and win- == |ter, novel enough to be highly ex- iting. This year all hats are very, very estive. This was especially true t the beginning of the fall sea- son. The Empress Eugenie may ave designed her beplumed velvet oque as a riding hat, but on the odern woman it always has a ‘party hat” look. Meanyhile, fol- lowing the general trend toward period stlyes, designers have intro- uced fashions borrowed from even ore remote times than the Nine- teenth century, no less romantic ack into high favor, and hats nce more have descended to the ilored level of our practical vorkaday world. Still, whether by ribbons or fur trimming, or just new dash of the inevitable dip ver one eye, they remain exciting, = romantic little hats waiting to meet the festive mood of the holi- == day buyer. = Sixteenth Century Brims Perhaps the very newest thing in = hats is that borrowed from the = longest ago. The little page who = carried milady’s train at Sixteenth = century court receptions wore a soft velvet hat with a shallow cir- |cular crown gathered into a straight brim and a generous os- trich plume somewhere above it. Look at the latest 1932 models: |shallow circular crowns ‘bloused” down into brims that, thanks to the revival of sailor shapes last fall, are the same width all around. Just over the right eye, as special concession to the Empress, the brim dips downward, and the lit- tle page boy’s plume has become a feather fancy jutting straight up or out, right above the dip. Sometimes you will find this hat without its brim, nothing more than an old-fashioned tam o'shan- | ter, worn well to one side of the head and set off with the usual| feathers. Brims, of any kind, are some- thing to watch when buying your new hat. They take a variety of but they always swoop down over ome eye. Sometimes ere is no brim at the back, but| vizor-like attachment in the front that covers most of the fore- ‘ashion ok?‘ thing, and entertains |, . 2ho cake effect of the beginning of our own century, drooping over the face in the front only to tilt up- wards at the back or side, tossing up a bunch of feathers in true Sixteenth century fashion. Big Collars and Small Hats If such a hat interferes with that high coat collar of yours, and most of them do, or if your face is one that needs no kindly hat brim to soften its lines, there are many beret-like shapes for you equally fashionable and equally wearable this time of year. There is the tricorne, with its three points, one of them this season placed low on the forehead, the other two making interesting points just behind one's ears. This tricorne, then a huge, wing-like affair loaded down and dripping over like a w lled basket with ons and other was popular with the over-dressed ladies of the court of Louis XIV, and continued to please, in varied forms, through- out the first part of the Eight- eenth century when hats were monumental in structure and or- namented to a degree never since paralleled. Today's tricorne is a snug little thing, with one, or two, or even three narrow brims turned up to give that three-cornered, one - sided effect, and set off usually, by a knobby ornament set well toward the rear on the up side. One very new small hat is built on “fatigue” lines, and is very like the narrow, collapsible cap worn by soldiers off duty. It is worn well on one side of the head and waves a litttle tag of ribbon or fringed felt at the back. The “gob” bat is a symmetrical little thing with a slightly flared brim standing up all around the face and a little brush of feathers attached at an angle somewhere about, not infre- quently at the very top of the crown. Many of the newest hats, ideal for wear with luxurious furs, are nothing but caps after all, fitting tight like the popular beret, but rolled about the head, or trimmed to give the necessary slanting dip. Many of them are of velvet, band- ed with thick ropes of self-mate- rial; many more are of soft fur and are worn down over one eye. Felt berets are edged with fat rolls of crushed velvet, or bands of fur, or are non-chalantly folded up on one side and stuck with a quill like the gay scrap of a hat worn by Robin Hood and his mer- ry men. New Hats Are Gaily Worn No matter how tightly fitted these new hats, most of them manage to give the effect of being precariously moored to the head. The brimless ones cling at a dan- gerous angle to one side of the d, the brimmed ones sit high ve the ears, and the most se- curely lodged of them use pointed bows or, like the winged helmet of Mercury, boasts a pair of feather wings all spread for flight. The effect is indescribably gay and flappant and festive as Christmas itself. o