Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-11-26
Winter BOnnetS.
THE RACE BETWEEN VELVET AND PLusH-
STRIKING HEAD DRESSES.

STRIKING HEAp DRESSES.
Many of the most pleasing bonnets that are
shown have the crown of velvet and the brim
of plush, or vice versa; velvet ribbons trim
plush bonnets. and plush and velvet, used in
conjunction, are employed in trimming both
bonnets and hats. Striped and plaided plush
es are still used in millinery trimming, though
the taste for these seems to be less lively than
whsn first introduced. Preference is accord
ed trimming of solid color, and it may be that
in few weeks only ombrc stripes will hold
their own in millinery materials, or that We
shall only occasionally see use made Of ma.
terials striped in many colors. Ii IS difficult,
however, or hardly safe, TO make a positive
declaration on this subject, or even to proph-
esy, so liable is the mode to abandon or 10
adopt caprice at any moment.
With the cooler weather of autumn there
has been pcrceptible decline of fancy for the
feather turbans which cropped out SO plenti-
fully in the beginning Of the season, or per-
haps they have been laid aside to be repro
duced in the skating and sleighing toilets;
while there has been an increase in feather
bonnets. Some of
The Mosr STRIKING HEAD-DREssKs
seen on our streets are large poke bonnets,
made of the breast-feathers of the brown
pheasant, trimmed with plume of Impevan
pheasant's, or reacock's feathers, mounted
with the head of one or the other of these
birds and bonnets of warm and rich effect
are made of the breast feathers of the pea
cock, trimmed with plume made of the
feathers mounted with the head of the golden
pheasant. reather-covered crowns and brims
are manufactured to hand, and some Of these
show the use of feathers of several different
birds in the composition. Large bonnets are
in our millinery parlors, though, with the
multiplicity of shapes and sizes that distin-
guishes head-gear. there cannot be said to be
prevailing shape or prevailing class Of
bonnets, selection being usually made accord
ing as the bonnet may be more or less be-
coming to the dast of features Of the wearer.
A favorite shape in the large bonnet just now
has
THE PokE-BRIM
hugging the head quite closely. and curled
back so as to give jaunty effect around the
face. A very elegant model of this peculiar
style is of silk mole-skin plush in Vcsuve
red with the curled-b back edge of the brim
covered with plush as fluffy rs chenille.
The trimming is long double ostrich plume,
confined on the right side Of the head Of an
Impeyan pheasant, and sweeping across the
top. with strings of watcred ribbon, edged
with welt of plush two inches wide. A
bonnet of the same shape, made Of seal
brown velvet, has the edge of the brim
bound with plush in shaded stripes of brown
and turkey rel, and the trimming a tuft of
short curling ostrich tips shaded in brown
and red, confined on the left side amid the
folds of a torsade Of shaded plush, and
strings Of satin-lned plush ribbon in shaded
strips of brown and red.
recent fancy in millinery ornamentati0n
has taken form in the serpent. Several of
the handsomest and most notable models of
the season have serpent as dist, gushing
trimming. bonnet in memory is of velvet,
in seal brown ground.
EMBOSSED WITH Plush
in design of dead oak leaves, a cluster of
leaves impressed on the crown, and garland
of leaves edgipg the brim, and the trimming
is an adder of shaded green plush winding
around the crown, and strings Of brown
satin-lined plush ribbon. A bonnet Of
similar color and description is trimmed with
the adder coiled on one side, with its head on
the alert, and charming a helpless little
humming bird and on the other side is .
tuft of ostrich tips, shaded in green and
brown, with strings of brown watered ribbon.
A model bonnet from Virot, which may be
accepted as an exponent of the highest style
of the mode, is Of poke shape, with the in
dented ''Maric Stuart brim Of velvet NOR
dore or golden brim, finished with two puffs
on the brim, outlined with rope Of modore
beads. 1t is trimmed with brown ostrich
tips dropping over the right side held in
place by pressed brown South American
bird, known as the cock of the rock, posed on
the left side, and strings of brown watercd
ribbon.
Varying the large bonnets and the pokes,
we are shown, now and then. very attractive
models in the capote. A bonnet from Tuvee
Of this style is Of olive velvet with chenille
wrought lace in olive and old gold tints
covering the trim, and trimming of an
ostrich plume shading from rose into olive
posed on the left side, at the base OF the
crown three pink roses without folia ge, and
strings of shot watered ribbon in rose and
olive.