New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-21
Eise Falt Fashions.
crRIos1rTEs or THE Kobe.
From The Philadelphia North American Sent. l2th.i

From the Philadelphia North American Sept 12th.l
BY an importer whose trade is among the most
radically fashionable milliners, we were shown a
case Of samples of Paris made bonnets and the
materials for their make and establishment, for
fhe present fail season. The fashion of this head
gear is piquant and striking. Moreover it lis
pretty and becoming as a general rule. It is a
perfect Gpd-send to the Golf leTs. So small is the
new style of bonnet that everybody dressing en-
g1getsf, no matter what may be the abundance of
her own hair, must REINFORCE it with from ten to
thirty dollars worth Of someone elses. So great
indeed il the demand for artificial hair that large
portion Of the waterfalls rolls frizzes and other
appendages with which an unnatural crop of hair
II initiated, are made Of silk or Worsted-com-
m0niy termed mohair
Purchase siIken cord at the upheisterer,s and
it, will be seen that the silk is only twisted round
she suIfaee--the cord is cotton, Justso, because
Engeniesa once magnificent tresses are growing
thin, everybody u wearing somebody elsets hair
and big roll or pad Of goats wool or horse hair
is artflly covered the outside with the hair Of
some Normandy peasant bride, WIG, through the
instrumentality 81 an memorable pair of scissors,
has brought To her husband a wedding portion.
Save waterfall curls, that cannot be made except
of human hair, very share of the other en-
belishments rendered imperative to those who
syear fashionable bonnets, are the yefiest sham.
The fashion Of the bonnets for the. present year
is strikingly peculiar. They are smaller, by "a
good many degrees than those in vogue during the
past. From the specimens shown TO ua we reach
The conclusion that an elderly lady, disposed to
adhere to old fashions and to desire q bonnet i'd
order to cover her head, must look for something
not to be found among fashionable millinery
There were In the variety that we examined
nine different sorts of soup plate or MaY Queen
hats. every one of which was made in velvet. Tie
smallest Was mere square OF green velvet, with
broad velvet strings covering the5ears, A trim
ming of lace, about an inch wide, aependedfrom
1he edges. There Wefesthree fac Smiles Of ears
Of-Nheat, aud alike number Of counterfeit hops
on the front The price that we should have
guessed TO be at the most five dollars, WAS thirty
dollars The bonnet measured six inches and
three quarters by Eve inches and half. slight
congeIity was al that distinguished it in shape
from a small pane of glass.
The next was much like the first, except that
the pane of glass ran to a point at the back end
the others were ia the shape of small dessert
plates, exceedingly smell Gypsies. and May queens
end of an opera glass. Every one of them points
directly to the dealer in artificial hair. If all the
peasant girls of France and Germany were at
once to give up their tresses, they could not snip.
ply a 1.-THE 0f the demand made upon them by
people who woudrather be out of the world than
out of the fashion.
The trimmings are as ultra and as radical as
8he bonnets themselves. The artificial flower
business has received paralyzing blow. Just as
the new tangled style has given impetus to the
hair business, it has put quietaH upon that Of
making artificial flowers. For young people tui.
bans viii be very much in vogue, aud the trim.
innings upon these will denote the opulenee or the
extravaganza of the wearer,
of the eight that were shown TO US, five were
adorned With sstuIIsQ shunflli1g pirds. The gor-
ge0Hs Lilliputians of the feathered tribe that gem
! Brazilian landscape are thus murdered and
Rnoanted to do sentinel duty over Anglo Saxon
bellies In Paris, from which our 0biiging inform-
ant Inns Just returned, jewellers are mounting these
winged Qpals upon sets Of jewelry. They bring
prices SD exfrayagant for the part they have been
Drassed into as articles of costume, that the
modest collector 0f taxfdermal varieties cannot
now hope to possess the rare specimens. One of
them, shown US yesterday, was little larger than
hickory NUT, and the hrlliancy Of his punag ne put
to blush the glenn Of the Hungarian opal
The feathers 81 say rohed birds this season are
ia aIsatdenaaiia. p more peacock feather DUST
brlshes. we take Is VIII for d lime be used From
these feathers the eyes, are out, aud intermin-
gIed with the short feathers from the body ofsthe
hauglifY bird, are glued upon bands Of cloth to
nlafgia tfe fuFbans that are the fashion III Paris
and of course every here for girls budding
into wananhapd. A large box ea them was
shown 10 llsg of which 40 Two were alike, derived
from the plnmage 81 the peacock, pheasant,
sainaa-hen#And domestic plge0ns down even to
the il black, unlimited crow.
Tic dealers are no way backward about the
prices they ask While our friends the milners,
we opine, wil require 81 large price for q bon
mel, scarce large enough to hold shilling worth
Of ice cream aa tlaHy used ~ ask for enc that
could easily contain peek of stone coal.
As2we before remarked old ladies always ae
eAstsf4ed 10 have their heads covered, and who
could even entertain le idea of bnying and wear-
lg Ihe hair 81 one else der their bon
nets 70 suit their o5Yn IDEAS. FASHION has made
as0 pfQf4soa Ipg tAeln