Two blonde women stand facing each other in half light. The lights come up as we see they are both fashionably dressed, with one wearing a small white lace Juliet cap and the other a large, lace-trimmed cartwheel...
Two blonde women stand facing each other in half light. The lights come up as we see they are both fashionably dressed, with one wearing a small white lace Juliet cap and the other a large, lace-trimmed cartwheel hat. Commentator speaks of "the battle raging about this year's summer hat styles" - should they be big or small? C/Us of each hat and model.
We then see them wearing similar hats - one a huge cartwheel, the other a bit more understated, both trimmed with lots of flowers on stalks around the rim.
Lastly, we see the pair facing each other in black straw worked into a trellis pattern - one a large cartwheel, and the other a pretty, close-fitting, almost cloche shape, with a large rose and flowers at the side.
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