Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-09-10
DsiIp kennebrr 5uurnaI.
Fashions for Fall.
WHAT THE MoDIsTEs HAVE DECREED IN
THE WAY OF BoNNETs.

fell in yesterday with two girls from
Long Branch and one from Newport, who
had come to town to get an idea of what
the millinery of the immediate future Is
going to be. We went to several of the
best importers and makers, and here are
some of the things we found out: The
new felt bonnets have taken the fancy OF
the buyers, and the market will be flooded
with them next month. Women are
tired ef velvet. which has been in fashion
summer and winter for SO long, and all
the possible changes seem to have been
rung on fancy bonnets. Every sort oil
material, thick and thin, plain and figured
has been used for bonnet crowns, and
without this return to felt the chapeaux oi
the coming season must only, so far as
material is concerned, have been repeti-
tons of what was worn during the last
two winters. Said one milliner on whom
we called: 'An objection to felt bonnets
was their stiffness, and their obligation to
keep the shapes provided by the trade,
and which, however large could
never have the diversity of the
buckram form produced by the milliner
herself, who always managed to put
something peculiar or personal into it.
The same objection used TO be brought
against straw, and has been met in the
same way. You have seen how the
crowns have been removed from straw
hats and bOnnets and crowns in gathered
muslin or lace substituted for them. and
how flat Leghorn flaps have been twisted,
folded. plated into natty little capotes or
broad brimmed granny bonnets. The new
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They are turned about. folded. cut, until
they no longer resemble what they were
than the capote or granny does the Leg
horn flap. Their first success will doubt
less be due in part to this, and they are
likely to be maintained in fashion muca
longer on account of it, as there need be
hardly any limit to these notifications.
Men would laugh at the idea of high art
in millinery, but you girls understand how
sensitively expressive of good or bad
taste-how harmonious or inharmonious
TO the head it is worn on-a bonnet may
be-"
For late summer wear this same millin-
er showed us imported bonnets or hats of
braid an inch wide. woven OF very large
whole straw. This braid, though heavy
in effect. is indeed very light, and in the
pale golden tint of freshly-ripe straw it is
exceedingly handsome. A little English
capote made of it is bound on the edge of
the brim with black velvet. has black vel
vet strings, and posed high on the left
side is dense cluster of halfopened pink
moss rose buds. Most of the chapeaux
intended to be worn as long as the fine
weather lasts are IN black, brown or
ri toI OF hn hoin lad
like streaks of Venetian glass, brown,
crimson, olive, beige and gray being
particularly prominent. Some very pref
ty little coarse black and brown straw
bonnets have come in for the autumn.
They are mostly trimmed only with rib
bon bows, and perhaps a flower beneath
the brim. Bows of brown ribbon, mixed
with palest pink and ecru-the double
faced satin being of the two colors-make
nice trimmings for the brown straws,
and green, with little pink or crimson,
for the black. Such simple decora-
tons are preferred by women of taste to
the grasses IN which lowered insects of all
sorts, and even small green velvet lizards
and frogs disp0rt themselves. Upon my
word when tried to lunch in a city res
taurant the other noon, woman across
n narrow table lowered her head, bringing
a nasty lot of reptiles before my eyes and
nose, my blood turned into wriggling hor-
rors, and my meal was spoiled. Happily,
there seems to be an undercurrent leading
towards the adoption of flowers. and am
glad to predict their use for small bonnet
trimmings this fall and winter. Smooth
felt in bonnets and hats will be in vogue
tor early autumn. We shall have in hats
as leading shape modification of the
Henry H., with the brim projection in
front A sort of compromise with the
bonnet is seen in large headdress which
not inaptlv reminds the observer of great
truncated funnel, with the mouth tilted in
front anc pared off at the back, or, mod
ification of the Mother Hubbard bonnet,
which may become hat at the will of the
modesto