The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-03-03
VARIETY IN
studies Made On the Street and In the ma.
ufr.a llnery shops.

VARIETY IN BONNETs.
studies Made On shs Street asd In the ma
Tl. linsry shops.
One OF the curiositics OF commerce Il
the variety in woman's hats and bon,
nets to be found in the millinery
stores. A man likes to have his ha,
like the hat that every other man. |.
wearing. but If a woman buys a bon.
net and then goes out on the street
and sees q bnnnet just like hers on the
head Of another woman she loses her
temper. On the hat question a woman
insists upon being a monOpolist. She
will be exclusive or she won't play. As
u matter Of fact women are not often
thus offended. Go over on State street
and see il you can find two bonnets
alike. A prize is offered for such a
discovery, but you are not likely to
win it. More likely are you to find a
blade of grass growing in the middle
of the great shopping thoroughfare.
How the makers and trimmers Of bon.
nets manage to avoid duplication is a
mystery, but they do it. 1t is u tradi-
ton Of the trade that every bonnet is
a work OF art. standing alone and by
itself. But all bOnnets are not works
Of art. by any a Some Of them
are about as far from art as they can
get. But they are works of art in
that each is built from an original de-
sign, rs a picture is painted. Mems
hats are mere articles Of commerce.
turned out by machines and by the
thousands, all alike. A woman's bon.
net is like a painting. The picture
may be a bad one, with inharmonious
coloring, clumsy arrangement of forms,
outlandishness Of shapes. But it is
fashioned by nimble fingers, aud not
by any machine. by fingers which new
er fashioned one bonnet Just like W.
other. Only the frames are machine
made. Thousands of these are OF like
form and appearance. But the frame
is only the foundation. The super
structure is the bonnet. From
Paris each seaso come hun
dreds of bonnets representing
latest and presumably the best
work of the fashionable milliners of
city Of the modes. On the general
lines Of these Paris pattern bonnets
Chicago milliners build their wares.
care to make no two alike, but
to vary the detail, and to blend some
Of the features Of one pattern bonnet
with some Of the features Of another.
thus making an entirely new article.
The manufacturing departments OF the
big wholesale millinery houses do make
bonnets just alike, but in shipping
hem they take good care that no du-
be sent to the same town. Yet
with all the care and all the %precaution
o secure variety as infinite as the va
of womankind itself, it some
lines happens in the operation of the
avs Of chance that a woman with a
rev bonnet on her head will encounter
,pon the street or see in the show win.
low of a milliner q bonnet so near like
Ter WI that upon u superficial exam.
nation she not distinguish the diff
What then happensP Why.
he woman is put out" or ''morti-
or knocked silly" or becomes
$50 mad that she could cry" according
o the bent of her vocabulary. But this
5 not all that happens. The woman
'oes straightway 10 her home or to her
n%illiner, with such precipitateness
Int all other errnnds and purposes are
neglected, and pauses not until
ribbon or a feather or an ornament
as been taken from or put upon that
'onnet, and its resemblance to the
'ther entirely destroyed. When this
; done the woman may be happy again,
mt not before, In this we find another
base of that process of differentiation,
'hich gives to the world infinite vari-
ty in the species bonnet. O, that
atural selection and survival of the
test could apply as rigidly.- Chicago
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