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The Singing Blonde Crowns Her
Glory
From "Radio Mirror" Magazine, June 1934 (pg. 36-37)
They say the hat often makes the woman and if that’s true then Ruth Etting
is really a queen on these pages for she is crowned with some of the
smartest headgear to be seen in Manhattan smart places this summer. Nicole
de Paris, famous French designer, has made these stunning creations
especially for Miss Etting’s pictures in RADIO MIRROR.
Nicole who makes chapeaux for famous movie stars as well as for society
women all over America says a woman must choose her hat more carefully than
any other article of her wardrobe. And these, she believes, are especially
suited to the popular blonde beauty who is starred over the Columbia
networks.
The smart tri-corner Ruth is wearing is of a gorgeous French straw fitted flat
to the head and deeply over one eye. The ornament is the piece de
resistance of the creation and the widely meshed veil helps, too.
The fluted white ruffle on the afternoon hat is of crisp organdy topped with
a heavy satin bow and the wide ruffle of her dress is part of the smart
ensemble.
Shiny rough black straw is the material used for the tricky little number
Miss Etting wears, the pert quill stuck across the front of the brim, while
for the races or formal teas she dons the gorgeous wide brimmed black
taffeta hat edged with an inch-row of grosgrain.
For sports she has a smooth, flat panama turned way up on one side and
trimmed with a pair of gaily colored quills.
But the prize of them all is the large panama with a double edged brim of
flattened violets and gloves to match that have huge bunches of the same
flowers at the wrists.
Madame Nicole favors the ensemble idea so distinctive this year, that of
matching an unusual hat with dress collar, gloves and bags. And of wearing
huge bouquets of flowers on the back of the wrist, blossoms that match the
trimming on the hat. The violet hat with white gloves, trimmed with large
bunches of violets, was also made in a black and white combination for a
famous motion picture star. But always the hat must fit the personality.
The season for large hats has come back with a vengeance, according to
Nicole, who knows her millinery. The crowns are still small but the brims
may be as large as your type can stand them.
Thank you to Matthew
Quigley for submitting this article!
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