Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-23
BAY FASHIONS.
WHAT TEEY WEAR IN SAN FRANCISCO
THIS SPRING.
The Bonnet = Flowers = Silks = Skirts :
Cloaks Styles Generally
Busy Season.
SAY Francisco, April 20, 1851.

san Francisco, April 20, 1851.
Even the flowers come in and go out of
fashion, but It's nature regulates their time
and length of reign. Very early i'll the
season the flower vendors were thick upon
the promenade, and at every turn one
heard their voices saying softly, "Violets,
lady, sweet violets Only ten cents; fresh
and sweet" Every other lady carried a
bunch of violets in her hand, in her hair
or at her throat, and the street cars were
filled with their perfume. Old married
men, eligible young men, beside downy-
checked goslings, bought violets to carry
home to wife, daughter, mamma, or some
ones sister, and it was all very dainty
fashion indeed. Then succeeded the old
home fragrance and the delicate purple of
lilacs, carried in sprays or in lunches
then handfuls of mild-eyed, piteous. faced
pansies: then the first nesting rose-buds
of the spring; and now the hower-seller
is enveloped in an atmosphere of Roses,
lady, ll-blown roses 2 and roses decorate
hand, or hair, or breast, or belt, all up and
down the street. 1t is pretty to note how
generally worn natural flowers are,
especially to church, as the time there is
so short they.are still fresh and unspoiled
at dismissal. Miss Eliza Williams has on
exhibition
LOVELY PICTURE
OF lilacs and tea roses, just as they might
have been crowded into scrap basket as
gathered from the garden. Some of the
roses have fallen to the ground, and lie
scattered carelessly about as artfully
natural as possible. Being the time
of year which naturally suggests flowers,
they blossom artifcially in great
profusion upon all millinery, hats
being fairly loaded with them. Accord
ing to rule, feathers should be out
of season, but long, light plumes are worn
without sense or reason, since properly
they belong to cold weather. Sometimes
one sees shoulder capes made entirely OF
small overlapping feathers. The coloriug
in millinery trimmings is still warm and
vivid, being red and yellow in allshades, and
the windows of some shops are so glazing
in their exhibit OF silk, ribbon and flower,
that they shine like brilliant spots, from
a distance. Ombre silk means simply silk
woven in all the shades of one color, and
the fading of one shade into another is Of
ten something exquisite, the effect, viewed
as whole being quite prismatic. 1t is
this ombre silk which is fashionable in
trimmings, and beautiful shaded ribbons as
well, and shaded feathers, deep and vivid
in the largest part, running through half
dozen variations and blendings in the color
and finally at the curling tip fading into
pinkish or cream white. Wreaths OF roses
are made to have the same effect by Sc
lecting and placing round the hat crown
the different shades. Daisy chains are
worn about the neck, or marguerltes with
bright yellow centers, or yellow chrysau-
themums, or some of the many-shaded
blossoms are placed about the collar, with
a space between each flower of its own
size. There ought to be rage for lilies
lust now, at Easter time, but they are not
a favorite flower for anything beside altar
decoration but it always seems strange
that new bonnets should be associated with
the resurrection, and | cannot see the con.
nection between the two.
But THE MILLINERs WERE PUSHED
Far toward midnight last week with orders
for Easter bonnets, and many bonnet
and hat was delivered last Sunday morn
ing by some overworked, slated milliner,
afraid lest it may not hear the service.
They talk about the penitents in Lent,
but / must say, outside the Catholics,
have seen very few devoted to poor din
ners, grave costumes and early church.
There has been constant attendance at
the Episcopal Churches, It's true, but it
has been sparse attendance, and l Imagine
but few tables have had a changed menu
because of Lent. Besides, if you satisfy
yourself with eggs and fish, how have you
denied yourself more than If you had been
satisfied of meat and fowl? The Easter
bonnets, then, will be pokes. The poke
bonnet is the newest thing, and yet the
oldest thing in memory. Then you must
carry reticule for nothing in particular,
with pucker string attached to the gay
silk lining, with cord and tassel to swing
it by, and with bit of bright embroidery
on the side 1t is very grandmotherly ;
but you mustn't let it make you seem old ;
you must make it seem young and CO.
quettish. Imagine what it must be to
attempt coquetry carrying reticule The
poke bonnet has shirring of silk in the
face, or, perhaps, plain lining, flowers on
the outside, and strings down the sides.
The front projects over the face and the
back comes down simply about the hair,
about as usual. Fancy trying to get under
a poke bonnet to kiss. your friend who
calls Awkward, but still possible. In
passing mark the latest OSCILLATION. Not
upon the lps-dear me, what desecra-
ton of the sanctuary that would be! Oh,
no! Each pair of lips passes the other
and the mouths
SIMULTANEOUSLY SMACK
Gently upon the first spot in the cheek
they come to. The giving and receiving
of such greeting is great satisfaction
the most like a Barmecide feast of any
thing you can conjure to mind. But then
the pokes are becoming to the thin-styled
women, though to large features and
''moony faces it is an impossibility of
head gear, magnifying them out of all pro-
portion or pretense at beauty. A plain
simple hat which some one who is very
pretty might dare to wear is of wash mus
lin, with a wreath of ox.eyed daisies
round the crown. Other bonnets beside
the poke are the cottage and the small
close hape which has endured throughout
winter, but it were difficult to name a GER
tain hat and say it is most prominent,
since there is every shape, and each in
favor. Coarse straws, however, appear in
great profusion, oftentimes with the straw
so plated as to be OPEN worked like lace.
Some hats have the soft pulled Nor
mandy crown put in of silk and a
very narrow brim of straw lace, while
others are of open straw, lined with silk of
the chosen color. There is shape some.
thing like turban, with a narrow seal
Hoped brim, and they are simply trimmed
in shaded ribbon with couple OF small
plnmes falling onto the neck at the back
With such bonnets and hats as these we
must continue to wear the hair low, and
something after the peasant fashion it is
ornamented with gold and jet pins, nails,
daggers, arrows and every sort of torturing