The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-03-22
Spring BOnnets.

Head-Cear has recently been at a
stand-still, except in mere matters of
detail There has been nothing pictur-
esque to fall back upon historically
art and ROYALTY have been alike drawn
upon until they are exhausted. Gains
borough and Eembrandt. Van Dyke
and Sir Joshua Reynolds. Valasquez
and Titan, Reubens and Raphael,
Henri Quatre and Marie Antoinette,
Josephine and Mary Stuart, have stood
with many others for creations as
hideOusly unlike the originals as
TOussaud' 8 wax figures are l Ike the per-
sons they represent, and have been
revived each season, until now
they are all in the market together,
and ladies who pay their money can
certa My maze a choice. But the re-
suit is not as yet order 1t is chaos.
All the manufacturers can do is to
feel the market by sending out
samples and watch which way the wind
blows for the current season. For three
years past it has specialized the large
hat and the small bonnet, with a
penchant for the moderate poke on the
part of the elderly and homely or those
who have not confidence in the correct
ness of their faces and features. As
protection to a little irregularity of
eyes, nose, or mouth. the poke is in
valuable, and has besides sort of
quaintness very precious to those
who can no longer hope to be pfctur
esQue.
The white bonnet once so highly
priced, has disappeared altogether. In
its place we have beaded bonnets-
crowns made of plated gold hrai or
cords, and attached to soft pulled or
gathered lace brims and tinted satin or
velvet, lined with satin, and trimmed
with softly, urIing ostrich feathers.
The evening bonnet is, in fact, simply
the afternoon visiting bonnet, or re
ception bonnet, and has no special
character of its own at all. For sum
mer wear in the country, it is said hat
large black hats and black hose will be
the correct thing, with white walking
and garden costumes, and that when
terra-cotta red or crushed strawberry
are pre- erred, hose and hat must match
in tint as well as color.
There are many fancy materials for
bonncts, but nothing so good. so useful,
or that can be made so becoming as fine
straw and ivory-tinted chip. The old
chalky-white chips were CHASTITY, hut,
with the chalk tint, the stiff dressing
has disappeared, and the chip bonnet,
well lined and garnitured, has become
a thing of beauty.
1t is quite common now with English
tailOr-made dresses to send close fitting
hat or bonnet made of the material Of
the dress in the simplest pOss BILE man.
ner. These tweed or heather-cloth
bOnnets possess a certain distinction
which very snowy and much trimmed
bonnet may lack. It shows knowledge
and the habit of getting the best things
at the best places. as well rs specializing
their objects and purposes. This re-
qures training, and indicates cultivated
antecedents
A very pretty reception bonnet, which
may be considered a novelty. and is
suitable for early spring. has a crown
which is made of satin rhadames capt
toned in a small she pattern, and
pointed with dots of beads, which have
quite a new and charming effect The
brim is close, but set with double row
of small silk pom Ons in two or more
shades of the color of the crown, which,
in the case referred to, was a bronze
brown. and strictly to mat h the cos
tune of Ottoman silk and plush. The
fashionable use of pompons has actually
created a new industry, for they are
now as much used for trimming dresses
as for trimming bonnets. --Jenny June,
an Chicago Journal.