, 1880-07-26
Parisian BOnnets.

have paid visit to the celebrated
establishment of Madames Virot and
Geargette. All the bonnets there, as
everywhere, are richly and heavily
laden with gold, for which those mod
istes make the ladies settle bills that
would warrant it to be all real and
unalloyed metal. At Nine. Virot's
there was q simple. rough-and- ready
hat, trimmed with single bow of red
satin, simply lined with satin of the
same color, and the price of that hat
was simply-$2O! Only that and MOTH
ing more. A handsome bonnet was
one which, at a certain distance, looked
like golden ball. Its crown was made
of transparent filigree work, shaped in
either japanese, Chinese or Egyptian
designs. Zone must be familiar with
SO much lore now to be explic in
fashions.) The front part of the little
thing was totally covered with an i'm
mense bow of 6ligree gold. What do
you think the strings of that bonnet
were? Wide black satin. Another
close fitting bonnet had a crown OF
white satin, on which was embroidered
with gold threads in relief the most
beautiful sheaf of wheat, studded with
white daisies exquisitely worked with
hearts of gold. The trimming was a
bunch of gold-colored marabOut feath
ers topped with a white aigrette tipped
with gold tiligree. A young lady's bon
net was of white silk, embroidered all
over with forget-me- The front was
made of tufts of forget mel -nots relieved
on the left by long net OF pinkish
rosebuds. Dead heliotrope color is
getting to be fashionable. 1t is not
pretty, nor should think it would be
very becoming. 1t has only one re-
deeming poins-it is new. saw sew
eral bonuets trimmed with il, one en-
tirely composed OF heliotrope flowers.
Birds of every hue and kiud are still
making bonnets and hats the last rest
ing place. The other day, walking
along the boulevards, I saw funny
looking gray something on lady's hat;
l drew near to see what it might be; it
was big owls head with its great
glass eyes staring people out of coun-
tenance. An odd-looklng hat is the one
Mademoiselle Pierson wore to o the
salon, - The Nabob." 1t was an i'm
mense black broad brimmed Van Dy ke,
covered with black plumes; that, of
coulsa, is no novelty; but along the
inside rim, lined with black velvet, was
bird of paradise stretched and lying
very fiat with its long tail covering the
whole left side. Not many straw hats
have come out as yet; perhaps they
| will not be worn as much as those made
of glittering combinations. Here are
two very pretty ones. however, that I
saw at the C1mpagnie Lyonnaise on the
boulevard: A large scoop made of
alternate narrow brown and cream
colored straw, trimned with paradise
bird on the left side. Its long feathery
tail was confined in one or two places
by twist made of brown velvet and
cream -colored satin. That twist was
the only trimming on the right side,
being there fastened to the hat by gold
headed pins. The inside was lined
with bias bands of brown velvet and
cream satin. The other, a navy-blue
straw trimmed with shirred satin, color
to match. On the left side was series
of pompons of about six shades of blue.
The pompons were made of fringed out
silk. It was beautiful spring hat for
a young lady.-POis Cor. Cincinnati
Gazette.