The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-04-22

used to enliven them, while flowers vii
be worn ON them all through the sum
mer. For full-dress afternoon recep
tons white lace bonnets with pearl ant
opal ornaments are now most in favor
Fine fligree gilt ornaments, and silvel
lace as fine as the new gilt 1aces, ar,
shown at late openings of millinery
Strings of doubled tapestry silk edgeG
with lace, either gilt or Languedoc, arr
tied in great bow low behind the LEFT
ear. Hankerchiefs of red or cream
colored twilled silk, embroidered, art
used as crowns of Tuscan straw bon
nets, and red or yellow plumes com
plete the trimming. Scarlet, peacock
blue, or old gold velvet is used by some
Paris milliners for facing the bri1n Of
Tuscan bonnets; broad gold braid
band or else lace is laid on the edge
The gilt laces in narrow edgings, and
also quite wide, initiate torchon and
Mechin patterns, and are of very
fine threads. New black net fol-
bonnets has gilt threads out.
lining diamonds all through it.
and is called Eugene net, while square.
meshed nets entirely of gilt threads are
shown for trimmings. Laces in Turkey
red colors are new, and this offers q
suggestion to ladies who have creamy
laces of the kind formerly called cash
mere lace, as it can be dyed prettily for
trimming oil calicoes or foulard silks.
Gaze pearl is another novelty in black
net, as it is tulle strewn with iridescent
bits, or else the yellow pearls now 50
fashionable are used for beading it; this
is to be used for making the bonnet,
while lace edging will trim it. Hand
painted lace is very expensive, yet it is
also pressed into service for trimming
black net bonnets. Dark yellow, red,
and salmon are used on black hats,
while heliotrope, pink, Isabelle yellow
and cream are the colors for light bon
nets. Blue will be less used than it has
been of late, though occasionally very
pale peacock blue is associated with gilt,
especially in the soft Persian silks used
to trim fine chip Or ecru braid bonnets.
-Four or five feather tips curling over the
brim toward the front then represent
each shade in the Persian silk. Coarse
Swiss straw scoop bonnets of large size
are colored gray and brown, and will be
used in the country for common wear.
PARAsoLs.
New parasols for spring and summer
are of medium size, with ribs eighteen
inches in length. There are only twelve
of these ribs, instead of sixteen, the
number used last year; and instead of
being gilded, they are painted red, and
are placed outside the lining, where
they are displayed conspicuously. The
parasols are not in canopy shape, vet
are not nearly so fiat as the Japanese
shapes used last summer. The lining
follows the outside silk, and is between
it and the red ribs. The novelty is to
have wide border on the Innings; some
times the border is sewed on, and some
times it is woven in. Changeable silks
are much used for Innings, especially in
mixtures of yellow and red that are called
sunset silks. Red silk Innings are per-
haps more used than any other color.
and the border may be a striped band.
Or else in cashmere colors and designs.
A ring is tied to the top of the parasol,
and this is pushed down upon it when it
IS closed, to hold in place. A ball tassel
s also a new ornament, which is tied to
The outside by string. Some have ro-
settles OF narrow ribbon tied near. the
,op, and again on the handle, and some
very fanciful parasols have a bunch of
flowers fastened on one gore.
Levantine (Which is soft twilled silk).
ustrous satin, brocaded silk, satin
ecru pongee, are the fabrics
most used for the outside of parasols.
Spanish lace, both black and white.
cashmere lace of many colors, and
rlnges, are the trimmings; chenille
ringe and the curled tape fringes ara
most effective. Natural sticks Of light
woods are used for handles, such as the
english oak, which has green shades on
is pale ecru colors. Weichsel sticks
IRE also much used. The knobs or
'rooks at the end are of Longwy fai-
nee, or of cloisonne enamel, with bands
o match, or else of Dresden china.
Aady-bugs, flies, and bees of most nat
lral colors are stuck about on the oaken
and sometimes cloisonne
'and is around it, while other sticks of
'imento wood have green leaves carved
q relief as vine around the handle:
gain, an owls head of ivory or of ST.
mese horn forms the knob, or perhaps
here is crook of rhinoceros horn or of
oral. Dressy white parasols of bro
AIDED silk are edged with white Spanish
ace, have red ribs over a white
ming, and the stick is of
Black levantine or else
rocaded satin parasols are very |
andsome when edged with cashmere
ice, showing red, yellow, and olive
breads, and lined with scarlet or else
nth sunset yellow. Other black para |
DIS have black Spanish lace on the edge
nd white lining. Embroidery in the
ing India stitches and gay colors en-
lches black and ecru parasols. For
ay dressing the satin foulards in India
olors are used to cover the parasol: |
lese will replace the red parasols worn
vo summers ago. Hand painted para
Dis have large cluster of foliage or of
overs covering one gore, with slen-
er vine shooting out from it and partly
ordering the other cores. The hand /
erchief parasols are shown again, also
lose of plain Scotch bingham, either
right red or peacock blue, with a
IShmere border on tho odro u,.,o~,. |