"In Italy wearing a hat is a sign of gentility.

No work-girl ever has one on her head even on Sundays.

I offered a cast-off of mine to the _bonne_ at a hotel once, and she eyed it longingly, but said she daren't wear it if she took it, her friends would think it such swank." "What do they have on in church then ?" asked Delia.
"Handkerchiefs, of course.

Every Neapolitan has one handy to slip round her head at the church door.

It must save millinery bills." "And they all have the most beautiful hair.