St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-09-16
BOnnets and Trimmings.

Milliners have for the first time in
many years imported bonnets especially
designed for the intermediate season OF
autumn, which in this country is so
beautiful and lasts so long that summer
bonnets lose their freshness when the
weather is still too warm for heavy win
ter bonnets to be comfortable. 70
meet the wants of this half season there
are new bonnets and round hats with
the brim of dark straw, and the crown
entirely of velvet of the same shade as
the straw, and put on almost as smooth
" as if it We're nodded there. These
come in the fashionable Partisan shade
of dark green called both hussar and
rifle green, also in olive. bronze, NOR
dore, sapphire, wine color, and pea
cock blue. The bonnets are small Ca
potes. but have larger brims than the
Alsacian bonnets of the summer, and
these brns have rolled edge that
forms a slight coronet. The curtain
band below the velvet crown is of straw
about an inch wide. These are to be
trimmed with fancy feathers, birds and
velvet ribbon that is satin on the wrong
side.
Round hats that have velvet crown
and straw brim are very large, but are
not particularly new in shapes. The
walking hat, as it is called, has a near
ly straight brim about four inches wide,
slightly curved upward on each side,
and high square crown OF velvet.
Other hats have only one side rolled up
in Gainsborough style. \ bird aW
naturel with torsade of velvet or of
ottoman reps Is the trimming for these.
The fancy feathers that have real
birds head with some of the breast
feathers, and are fancifully finished off
with long cog plumes, are also stylish
trimmings.
Small birds are imported in great
quantities for trimming bonnets and
round hats, and it is a sad sight to see
the meek ring-doves. with their sober
plumage, the sea-swaliows, merles,
pheasants, lophophores, penguins, and
even the pigeons, quails and cartridges,
that have been sacrificed for this pur-
pose.
The newest trimming ribbons are the
ottoman reps of thick yet soft quality,
the widths varying from two inches to
five or six.
Quaint pokes and sun-bonnets as we'll
as round hats are being worn in the
country by young ladies and misses.
They are made of batiste. either ecru,
very light blue of the new shade called
old SeVres, ivory white, porcelain blue
| and bronze. The front pokes out beyond
the face. protecting it like an old-time
sun bonnet, and is made of many narrow
shirred puffs. The crown is full and
stands up slightly, and the queer little
curtain falls low on the shoulders.
These are made to match the color of
the lawn or muslin dress, and cost 50. 80
each. Round hats of shirred null have
the crown entirely covered with a
square kerchief of printed NULL either
with balls, polka dots, pansies, chrysan-
themums or daisies. The edges OF the
square are either scalloped OF hem
stitched. This square is laid plainly
over the crown in front, its edges rest
ing on the brim, reaching to its very
edge, with all the fullness drawn back
of the crown and knotted there. or tieo
in careless bow with pointed ends
showing. The simple way of using the
coored null squares that are sold fol
forty cents up to one dollar is conven
lent for furnishing up the country hats
of coarse straw that have lost theil
freshness by the hard usage of sum
mer's campaign. Harper Bazaar.