should you wear a hat?
Women wear hats when they go to luncheons if they ordinarily wear hats. If you're not sure whether you should, wear one to luncheon and more than likely you will be urged by the hostess to take it off. Wearing a hat at luncheon in someone's home is greater formality than most of us hold with these days. It's more comfortable not to have on a hat and when you stop to think of it, a woman with a hat on in the house looks rather silly. You may be aware of the most hilarious hat custom of all, a product of Victorianism: hostesses wore hats to luncheon in their own homes. Today one can condone it only out of respect for old age, for the manners of a bygone era.

essential millinery
wear it in situations where it's inappropriate simply because you have it. However, I think most churches consider the wearing of a flower or some such ornament in the hair as being the equivalent of a hat, so the problem isn't too hard to cope with.

the velvet glove
The matter of when it's correct to wear gloves seems still to puzzle many people. You wear gloves when it makes sense. Gloves are pri­marily to keep the hands clean, and warm in cold weather. In a city, this means you always wear them when you're out of doors. In the country, it means outdoors in cold weather, otherwise probably seldom. But you absolutely never wear them when you're eating or drinking-cocktails, canapes, the food at a wedding reception. A formal occasion does not mean you have to keep your gloves on. It is mistakenly supposed to be elegant. In fact, it is in very bad taste. It is senseless to wear gloves when you eat or drink, for groomed or careful as you are, gloves pick up some dirt in transit. Besides, it looks ridiculous.