![]() ![]() Never let yourself get a hat that is narrower than your cheekbones, because it makes you look ridiculous." The result is you always need to have as much width in your hat as you have width in your cheek bones. Also, it lops off very suddenly into your chin. Your head is narrower above the temples than it is at the cheek bones. It's broader between the two cheekbones than it is up at the top. "You should always wear a hat something like this. ![]() "There, my dear, that is your hat," she told the girl in a matter-of-fact way. Susan Perkins passed by the pretty hats and pointed instead to a simple three-cornered tricorn style, similar to the ones worn by Revolutionary War soldiers. ![]() It was 1890, and the day's fashionable hats were slim and narrow, festooned with colorful ribbons and topped with flowers and feathers that added inches to a woman's height. Her mother, Susan Bean Perkins, delivered the message when she took her daughter shopping for a hat. Fannie Coralie Perkins knew by the age of ten that she would never be a conventional beauty, that unlike many women of her day she could not rely on physical attractiveness to open doors to her future. ![]()
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