Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-10-08
NO. 23s.
The Fashions Described by Harper's
Bazaar.

D0A00rs
Openings at the private millinery shops
show elegant novelties that are held In re-
serve until people of fashion return to the
city from their country seats. Among the
new designs is the Henri Quatre toqus
with soft full crown and stiff Rabagas brim.
This is very handsome in the dark Bor-
deaux red velvet (Which prevails in mil
linary), with the long white plume Of Ma
varre curled round the brim - its only
trimming. Others Of similar shape, called
the DaVinci, are of black velvet, like The
cap worn by Leonardo da vinci; Il 70
edged with gold cord and has strings add
ed
A large bonnet called the Cobriolet has
the wide open front worn in summer,
and called the Clarissa Harlowe; this is
also very handsome in black velvet. with
cream-colored satin ribbon and plumes
held by gold filigree ornaments. Small
and dressy bonnets are of white satin per-
fectly plain on the frame, trimmed with .
wreath of shaded green velvet leaves and
white ostrich tips. One lovely model Of
brown velvet has thirteen tinsel bees on
the crown and three on the front. The
trimming is pale gray ostrich bands most
beautifully curled.
To wear with plaid suits, are small hon.
nets Of green and blue combined. The
brim is covered with shirred myrtle green
velvet. back of which are rows Of the
eyes of peacock's feathers all blue with
green; the soft crown is mass of soft
basket-woven elk of Scotch plaid In the
two prevailing colors, and to finish it one
string is blue satin ribbon and the other 10
myrtle green There are also light gray.
brown and black felt bounets trimmed
with an Alsacian bow and strings Of very
soft ribbon in gay Scotch plaids, in which
much old gold and dark red enter.
In satin bonnets novelty Is q round
smooth crown covered with old gold satin,
and having brim of brown velvet. A
wreath of gold mignonette Is around the
crown, and two rosette pompons Of brown
ostrich feathers are on top. The strings
are old gold watered ribbon on one side
and satin on the other. The handsomest
black satin bonnets have elaborate corO-
nets and crown trimmings of fine jet, with
knife pleatings Of thread lace: these cost
$50. In all such bonnets the satin IL laid
plainly over the frame.
Fewer smooth felt bonnets are shown
than usual since the introduction Of the
furry beavers. the camefs hair felts and
those with feather. The plain felts are
less expensive than formerly. and will b
most used in black, myrtle. green and
French gray. Bordeaux, and garnet vel
vet are the trimmings on the bounets Of
these three colors. Gold cords on the
edges. the striped velvets. small noddlng
tips. Scotch plaid ribbons, and cashmere
feath'r RS are their ornaments. The shapes
70 falt har tho oil
net or else one side OF the brim ID slight
ly turned up like a round hat. a
For black velvet. red velvet and white
plush bonnets, one OF the plainest designs
is also the most distinguished. II has Q
close crown, a curtain band, and front
that flares slightly, yet has no face trim
ming, and is lined with the same velvet or
with satin. A gold cable cord edges the
entire bonnet and is tied around the crown.
Two or three small ostrich tips, or per.
haps two rosettes of feathers. are directly
on top. Some satin ribbon twines around
the crown. and is tied as strings. Per-
haps lizard or fly of tinsel is on the
front and low on the crown. The new
wells are black thread net. speckled or
busted over with tinsel. They are worn
in mask style. and also in scarfs that cross
behind the head and tie in the front. The
| small mask wells are, however, most liked,
as everything about the new bonnets 10
compact and without streamers. These
black end gilt wells are especially suitable
with black velvet bonnets that are trimmed
| with old gold.
Though many bounets are shown, there
is an effort to make colored bonnets more
universally popular. and those of black
velvet are often trimmed with colored vel.
vet. especially grenat; others have pale
blue and beige combined for trimming,
and still others of black velvet have many
soft red roses OF silken petals around the
crown. On one black bonnet sixteen
| roses were counted. and these roses, with
| some gilded flowers and much velvet foli-
| age, are almost the only flowers used.
Feathers are the popular garniture.
Among the new ornaments are fligree
gilt rings, gilded horseshoes, Turkish cres-
cents, gilt feathers, tridents Of steel in
hoops of garnets, and q great deal Of c.
BILE cord of various thicknesses; some
times the cord is all gilt, sometimes gilt
with black or with garnet. and some
times it is all silk, such as white cord for
white bonnets, and garnet for garnet vel.
vet hats. The lizards. bees. butterflies
and humming-brds of tinsel have already
been noted Very few beaded ornaments
are seen at the best houses.
| Among new ribbons is q soft striped
ribbon called camers-hair, from its blend.
ing of old gold. red and black. The
corduroy ribbons with satin on the wrong
| side are also very handsome. Brocaded
satin ribbons are shown in very gay COL
ors. and moire ribbons promise to be very
popular.
New round hats. called the Mephisto-
pheles. have two sharp wing-like feathers
going back from the front OF the brim on
the crown. Another shape Is tricornered,
like the Continental hat; this Is made up
in dark Bordeaux velvet with cable
cord on the edge. Black felt and pale
grav hats are turned straight up on one
side, widely bound with black velvet that
has gold cord on the upper edge, and
the crown is nearly covered with cash
mere feathers. There are more colored
velvet round hats imported than usual !;
instead of the stereotyped black velvet
round hat with satin trimmings. there are
| rran valvat hats nd MANY anal- henxn