Word: chapeaux
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...Reforma mansion that had once housed Emperor Maximilian's mistress. His first hats were as fantastic as they were expensive, and sold like hot cakes. Often they really were hot cakes: Chatillon found that steaming Mexican tortillas, molded to the head and well-shellacked, made salable chapeaux. He made other hats from zacate, the maguey fiber Mexicans use instead of steel wool, and the cheap woven straw strips used to cinch saddles under horses' bellies. Among his clients: Magda Lupescu and Dolores...
When it comes to millinery, Mme. Schiaparelli expressed herself as in favor of simplicity and especially fond of fur chapeaux. "I have always disliked all these veils and things," she admitted with a smile, "sometimes I do indulge in complicated hats, but it's just to give fashion editors something to talk about...
Wives, mothers, sisters, etc., of the funmakers, organized a feminine club called Quarante Femmes ?Huit Chapeaux (40 women?8 hats), with a Mrs. Walter Davol of East Providence, R. I., for "National Chapeau...
...below average owing to various reasons. The real sensation of the day, however, was provided in the lost and found columns. We had no idea that so many of August's best had vanished into thin air at the Stadium. Dozens of men lost their "form-fit chapeaux", but very few had found a thing worthy of disposal at the exchange;--and that is saying something...