Imperial Valley Press

HIGH CROWNS AT HEAD OF PARADE

"If your hat is a Spanish sombrero it's big news," says Paris. To be quite right, it should have a roll whether in Breton or bonnet; and to be less dernier cri, it must have a gay dash of color.

As always, women this spring wear the latest fashion news on their heads. High crowns continue their parade, but brims are slowly usurping the fashion limelight—roll brims, high sweeping Rubens brims borrowed from portraits of that gallant artist of the seventeenth century, straight sailor brims, and lovely off-face types.

Bonnets Frame Coiffure

Flaring gently away from the softly flattering curls of today's coiffure, the bonnet is the real Easter fashion. Topped with gay sprigs of flowers, often with girlish ribbon streamers at the back, this bonnet is neither quaint nor "girl-girlie." But it's definitely youthful, and beautiful as a frame for the face as it poses at the back of the head.

Not content with the new week-ward tilt of the Easter bonnets, fashion now poses amusing berets and even high toques at the back of the head. And to further the backward movement, small bunches of nosegays are set at the low hairline.

PERSIAN TURBANS

Becoming to most women, the turban is again a fashion leader. But it is a new and colorful turban, softly draped in Persian fashion, and often of printed fabric to match the kerchief or frock. Worn on the back of the head, it is a perfect frame for the new higher curls worn.

Not to be outdone by the backward push of many hats, the beret makes a new and dramatic entrance in fashion. Softly draped, often with a forehead bandeau that sits in a new halo line.

Other new berets are borrowed from sailor caps. And, for those who are to be different, the lovely soft lines of Rembrandt's own berets have inspired a whole new series of this popular young hat.

FLOWERS AND COLORS GAY

Near a flower on your hat ... a bright colored straw ... and you'll be a leader in the spring fashion parade, Paris decrees. Even leghorns, in new flattering styles, are a rich sunny yellow. Agnes shows purple straws, and dusky burnt orange, green or red. Suzy likes her reddish tangerine straw hats, so smart are they with dark street clothes.