St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-11-03
Autumn and Winter Bonnets.

Openings of autumn and winter bon
nets at the leading millinery houses
show the small shapes and simple trim
mings announced several weeks ago.
These small bonnets will prevail to the
exclusion of pokes. though there are al
ways larger sizes for elderly women
and for those who need greater warmth
and protection for the head. The nov
elites in millinery are therefore not
found in new shapes, but in the variety
and richness of the fabrics used. Hith-
erto winter bonnets were limited to
those of felt, velvet or plush, but now
there is an endless variety of wool and
silk and metal braids used, with rich
embroideries, cords and chenille; and
dress fabrics of all kinds, from cloth to
velvet, are fashioned into stylish bon
nets that match the costume with which
they are worn. There are also many
bonnets imported without trimming,
but SO nearly complete in themselves
that it is very easy matter to add tho
simple garniture needed.
One of the novelties is the entire bon.
net of soutache braid made with row
after row of the narrowest wool braid,
, beginning in the center of the crown,
and extending IN circles to the edge OF
the brim. This comes in the dark cloth
colors-dahlia, golden brown, myrtle
green, or sappbire-and may have a
little silver or gilt mixed with it. 1t is
an excellent bonnet to wear with cloth
costumes that are trimmed with SOU
tache, and there is also another fancy
for making it to wear with an India
shawl by trimming it with the new
camel s-hair lace that shows all the rich
colors that are wrought in India
camers-hair shawls; thus on sober
brown soutache bonnet is jabot of this
richly colored lace across the brim. with
cluster of ponipons of red and gold
tinsel high on the left side, and a roll OF
bias velvet on the edge of the brim.
Another novelty is the worsted bon
net. made of the embroidery worsteds
laid closely on frame in single threads
to make stripes, ball patterns, cheeks,
Or blocks of two or three shades of one
color. The crown has usually design
of it's own, sometimes OF dots, while the
brim may be plain or striped, and these
unique bonnets iare also especially APP
pIOpEldLC lOI WOUl OiCSSCS. IDA uS,
wings, tinsel or feather pompons, and
velvet ribbon for rosettes and strings,
are the trimmings.
Silver braid bonnets are prefersed to
those of gold braid worn last year. The
fancy for gray brings these silver liraids
into favor, and they are made youthful
looking by trimmings of green, brilliant
red, OF blue velvet laid in thick ro,leau
near the crown, with puff of velvet on
the brim, and a cluster of green hum
ming birds on the left side. The chenille
bonnets are the most varied of the i'm
portations. and are sometimes made of
chenille intertwined with cords of pas
sementerie, or with spiked jets wrought
in the crown, or with crown of chenille
and velvet front; or else this is reversed,
and the brim is covered with braid of
three strands of chenille plated together,
and the crown is velvet, with perhaps
some embroidery of chenille. The new
est felts have rows of tinsel cord in cir
cles, beginning on the crown. The
camel s-hair bonnets, made Of strips of
a felt-like material, plated with chenille
or passementerie cords, were introduced
last winter. Ecru kid crowns and
whole bonnets of kid were also worn
last year. and now alligator-skins of
varied makings are used in their natural
colors, and in darker brown and green.
-Harper's Bazaar.