The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-01-24
Winter BOnnets,

FOR lull.Or0SS Gay rcCcpClO0S WnlC0
bonnets are chosen, as they may be
worn with various toilettes. The most
elegant are of ivory velvet laid plainly
on the frame, and trimmed almost en-
tirely with white, though darker vel
vets are used for the cOrOnet when un-
relieved white is not becoming. Some
of these bonnets have merely downy
marabout feathers for ornament, while
others have clair de lune beads, or per-
haps dark velvet accessories in the
way of face trimmings and the neck
lace strings. One very elegant model
has coronet of cardinal red velvet,
with necklace of bias velvet of the
same color edged with fringe of clair
de lune beads; twist of the white vel
vet is around the crown, and two o.
trich tips-one white and one cardinal
red-curl over the top. Flowers are
less used than feathers on such bon
nets, though there are many dress hats
made entirely of flowers supported by
a velvet coronet, and without any
crown; the couture of elaborate braids
and puffs fills in the flower bonnet.
Colored hats for full dress are either
of very brilliant shades. or else the
palest fade tints. Thus there are ruby
velvet bonnets, with white roses for Or
naments clustered low down at the
back of the crown, while in pale hues
are sky blue velvet or plush bonnets,
trimmed with blue satin ribbon that
has old gold lining and a bird-of-para-
disc of the same yellow shade.
Two or three piping folds of satin
edge velvet or plush bonnets, and give
luster and finish. Bunches of the long
straight feathers of the white heron are
put in with marabout or ostrich tips to
give a stylish effect. Long slender quill
feathers of gold are more used than
when they first appeared in the autumn;
a single feather of this kind giving Just
the CLINT Of gold that effectively re-
lieves dark velvet bonnets. One of the
prettiest new fancies is that of putting
double or triple rows of pleated crepe
lisse, lace or muslin edged with lace,
low down under the crown, so that it
will appear below it resting on the soft
braids of the back hair, just as face
trimmings of this kind formerly did on
the front hair. At present there are
few white face trimmings seen. The
coronet is entirely of velvet, or plush,
or of flowers, or else it is covered with
fringe Of beads. A fancy is just re-
vived for shirred satin brims and fronts
of bonnets. These gathered brims, like
the plush coronets, have a very soft and
becoming effect.
The newest and most youthful bon
nets have the Gainsborough coronet,
which is slightly turned up on the left
side; these coronets are both plain and
shirred. Strings are found to even the
most youthful bonnets. The double
faced ribbons are used for strings, and
caprice at present is for tying these in
two long dropping loops with short
ends, instead of stiff set bow under
the chin. Small stiff bows of narrowly
folded satin or velvet are still much
used on the back of the crown especially
when the bonnet has the stiff curtain
now ir vogue. There are also some
pretty narrow coronets that curve
around the sides to the ears, somewat
in Marie Stuart style, though the more
pronounced Marie Stuart bonnets have
not become popular.
Ladies who do their own millinery
select the nicely-shapcd coronet bonnets
that come in both French and Ameri-
can fe.t, with close ears and broad
crown sloping well down on the soft
braids of hair. If the bonnet is black,
the coronet brim is covered smoothly
with black velvet. For the outside,
double-faced satin ribbon is chosen,
with one side black and the other car
dinal red, old gold or moss green. This
is loosely twisted around the crown,
showing slight glimpses of the colored
side, is crossed at the end of the crown,
and passed to the front, where It forms
| strings that are tied in u lung-looped
bow If this looks too plain and scant.
one or two srcall black ostrich tips are
stuck high on the left side of the front,
and allowed to curl over the coronet
Colored felt bonnets are similarly
trimmed with brocaded ribbon, in
which are combined the colors of the
bourette costumes with which they are
worn. A Japanese brooch, long and
slender, of mixed silver and gold, orna.
ments such bonnets, and there are
groups of birds upon them, such as two
or three small Brazilian humming-birds
pierced by gilt arrows. or perchinng on
a gilded bow, or swinging in hoop.
Beads are reserved almost altogether
for black velvet bonnets, and, by the
aid of these, it is an easy thing for Ia
dies who have taste in millinery matters
to make their own bonnets. These
beads come in Melted patterns Of
fringes. with diamond-shaped meshes
holding slender drops, also with shaped
pieces for crowns. The fringe pieces
cover coronets of black velvet bonnets
and are especially handsome of the
gray-blue clair dc lune beads. Indeed
the favorite and most stylish black bon
nets have these clair de lune beads fol
their only trimmings. Next in favor
are those with satin ribbons that have
moss green or old gold facings.-
Harper's Bazaar.
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