The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-03-26
Spring Millinery.

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of rich millinery show many novelties
not yet mentioned. Bonnets of satin
finished straw, of the yellow-tinted
Tuscan braids, fine Leg horn, and fancy
braids in lace-like patterns, are brought
over from the best Partisan houses.
There are also tinted French chips in
shades to match the new spring Co.'S
tunes, such as pale blue and dark blue,
tan, beige and cream colors, also brown,
gray, black and dark green. These
come in the large faring bonnets that
will be considered most dressy, and aleo
in the close cottage shapes that are be-
coming to most faces, and are liked with
simple costumes. The round hats are
usually Of black or white chip, but these
are also shown in colors. The dressy
shapes have the wide rolled brims in
Peg Wellington shape, or the Turenne,
or Devonshire. For palmer hats for
city use the turbans and English shapes
will prevail. Turbans are as popular in
Paris as they are here, but are worn low
on the forehead instead of on the back
of the head, as is the custom here.
Some turbans have round crowns, while
others ore indented from front to back.
A new shade of blue used in satins
end in ribbons is called gendarme blue.
and has green tints like the peacock
blue. The new red is brighter than car.
dinal, and is known as Prince OF Wales
red. The colors that will be most gen.
orally used are tan, cream and beige,
with some light yellow tints; and the
feature of the season will be the use of
these colors in very light tints, bright
ened by combining them with very dark
red or blue. Thus the ribbon on the
bonnet will be dark gendarme blue, and
the flowers the palest cream-colors, or
else the trimming satin will be ecru, and
the flowers dark red artemisias in two or
three shades.
Soft twilled satin will be much used
for trimming, cut bias from the piece,
and arranged irregularly in loops and
broken plaits, not in set bows and stiff
folds. It is also the choice material for
facing brims of bonnets and of round
hats, where it appears thickly gathered
in large shirrs on cords or reeds, or else
in very fine shirring. Ribbons for
strings and for passing across CROWNS
are wider than formerly, measuring
from three to four inches; those with
twilled satin on one side and gros grain
on the other, and of the softest quality,
are shown in all the new tan, cream,
blue and red shades. Another novelty
is black Brussels net embroidered on
the edges with old gold or olive silks in
leaf pattern; this is folded double for
strings and an Alsscian bow on black
lace honnets. Crocheted lace in ecru
tints of silk and of wool is also new for
trimming Tuscan and chip bonnets.
Still another novel trimming is cloth of
gold with the tinsel frosted over it; this
is used for facings and trimmings OF
black bonnets. A great many embossed
silks are also shown.
Flowers and feathers will both be
used. White and cream. .colored ostrich
plumes are much used on light chip
bonnets, and in new ways. Sometimes
they appear in the three feathers of the
Prince of Wales, clustered together,
curved nearly double, and nodding to-
ward the front of the bonnet. On the
dressy, large bonnets there are often
two long Mercutio ostrich plumes, one
of which is posed to hang very low
down on the shoulder on the left side,
the other wanders at will over the brim
or crown. The only trimming needed
with these is some soft, irregularly-fold-
ed satin on the right side, but there is
usually bouquet also low down on the
right. Very fine willow. feathers are
tipped with straw. The feathers Of the
impeyan and of other blue-green or
green. blue birds have been stripped
and formed into mammoth butterflies
or bees. Dark green leaves for trimming
white bonnets are made up of the nat
ural tinted breasts of humming-birds.
Very large flowers will be used, espe-
cially roses and chrysanthemums. These
are made of siIken petals or else of trans
parent Grape. The roses or the chrysan-
themums form wreath for the crown,
without any foliage, and are 30 large
that only six or eight roses are used,
and these are two shades of deep red, or
pale pink with tea-roses. There are also
moss wreaths with red berries in them,
and wreaths of green leaves of fine Grape
beautifully veined. Bouquets of wild
roses, or OF rosebuds and mignonette,
are also shown; the buds have long
stems of rubber tubing, and are tied to
show the stems conspicuously. Steel
beads are strung on the edges of brims,
and there are many pretty ornaments
of polished steel and gilt.
The trimming is very simply yet taste
fully arranged. A fine Tuscan bonnet |
with Aaring brim has merely one long
white Mercutio plume dropping low on
the left shoulder, and fastened high on
the side by an irregularly looped bow of
cream satin ribbon. The brim has no
wire in the edge, and is bare inside at
least an inch; then the facing is set on,
and quite under the brim on the left is
a bunch of wild roses of pink and cream
hades. A similar bonnet of Leghorn
has a black velvet facing inside, and
dark red and yellow artemisias, while
outside is folded satin and ecru crochet
ed lace, with single long ostrich
plume.
Fashion Notes.
Ragusa point is the coming lace.
Breton is the lace of the passing mo-
ment.
Coteline is another name for printed
dinity.