The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-03-15
Spring Millinery.

The first importations of bonnets show
straws In great variety, to the exclusion
of chip braids; the latter are said to be
so fragile that they scarcely last through
a season, and the fine straws are now
made as light as chip, and are far more
durable. English split straws and Milan
braids will probably find most favor, as
they come in very narrow braids of satin
like lustre, and are very light in weight;
these are shown in two shades of cream
white and ecru, and are in all the new
shapes both of bonnets and round hats.
These fine straws are also colored deep
green, brown, blue, garnet and black
for bonnets to wear with special cos
tunes, or with white or black dresses.
The red hats that were so fashionable
last summer are repeated in darker
shades 4, and in these smooth light braids
as well as in the heavy-looking rough
straws. Manila braids are brought out
in deeper ecru tints than any worn last
year, and are liked particularly for large
pokes and wide-brimmed round hats.
The porcupine braids with stiff bristling
loops of the straw are shown again, and
there are the scalloped-edged rough
straws that were worn alike for dress
and undress hats last year. Satin straw,
Milan and split straws are used for the
small capote bonuets that will be chosen
for dress, and also for the larger shapes
for watering places. The yellowi, h
Tuscan braids are always liked for sum-
mer bonnets, and are now largely i'm
ported in plain smooth braids, and in
the fancy lace straws that were offered
last year, but did not prove popular. In
the new bonnets two kinds of Tuscan
braids are combined; the principal part
of the bonnet is the plain Tuscan, and
there are insertions of the lace straw
laid fiat in the crown and like a border
on the brim. Thick clusters of loops of
braid form q band like q ruche on the
brims of bonnets and of round hats.
Leghorns are imported in all the new
shapes for those who can afford to pur-
chase them, and there is an effort to
revive the horse-hair or crinoline straws
known as Neapolitan braids, but hitherto
these have been of such poor qualities
that they can not be commended.
The new shapes are not new, but
merely accentuate those of last year,
showing larger poke@, wider-brimmed
round hats, and small capotes. The
| pokes have crowns of various shapes
round, tapering and almost square
| while the fronts project upward so high
that the fashion of trimming next the
face will have to be resorted TO in order
to fill up this great space. There are
small clusters of fine flowers to be used
for this purpose, stuck about irregularly
in the way seen in the bonnets of hun
dred years ago. There are also three
| quarter wreaths that are to be worn just
across the upper part of the inside b i'm
of pokes, and to be placed at will, as
best becomes the wearer's face, on the
new round hats. These trails of h)wers
are also to be put on the outside OF
dressy small bonnets, almost covering
one side of them, while on the other
side will be clusters of ostrich feathers.
Rather small flowers are imported, al
though milliners predict that the large
crushed roses and other double flowers
without foliage will be used. For me-
dunn small bonnets the coronet fronts
are used, and there are some pokes that
have the edge of the brim rolled back
like a coronet. The round hats retain
the large shapes of last year that are
capable of being made so picturesque
and becoming. The brims are very
wide and fiat, and are without wires, so
that they can be made into almost any
desired shape, but it Is said they will be
worn quite fiat on the head, in peasant
fashion, with the brim straight all
around.-Hdrper' Bdzdr.