Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-29
GOTHAM FASHIONS.

/ NEW OhA, ApIll ~, 1000 L aS
spring bonnet is essentially frivolous
It is mass of ribbon tulle and
flowers, flung artistically upon new
work of gold wires, and, perched
above a fresh, young face it is deli
ciously undignified and dangerously
becoming. There are other faces,
however, to which concessions must
be made, and therefore there must be
other bonnets, but even these are
comparatively giddy when one reflects
upon the severe and quiet head-gear
of the near past. There is fancy
too, this year, of giving bonnets
the names of different flowers, trim
ming and perfuming them in accord
ance. Thus q "Jacqueminot Tur-
ban" is an inconsequent little frill OF
black tulle' delicately plissee to give
the softest possible effect about the
face, and the crown is careless clus-
ter Of deep-hearted, long-stemmed
Jacques and their leaves. The roses
are caught firmly to the wire net
work on which this fairy structure is
built, and, though they nod and
tremble and flirt with every passing
breeze or movement of the wearer'e
head, they are securely planted for
the seasons wear.
One "Violet Bonnet" has a close
ruching of deep purple-plum velvet
for face-trimming, the smallest OF
straps and bows Of the same material
for strings, and the violets are ar.
ranged with their cool, dark leaves in
little punches, irregularly covering
the puffed crown of violet gauze.
Another has narrow brim, formed
entirely of row of wood violets laid
above border of their leaves, with a
softly gathered crown of dark-green
tulle, q fine pleating of the tulle around
the face and no strings. Both these
dainty trifes exhale the delicious odol
of Violet de Parme.
Quaint, saucy pokes for young la
dies have full facings of sbirred OF
finely-pleated gauze or tulle, crowns
wreathed with flowers and long grace.
full scarfs, which fall from the back ol
the crown, bringing sometimes q
careless spray Of flowers half way
down their length, and wound once
about their throat, are either tossed
over the shoulder, loosely knotted al
one side of the chin, or fastened tc
the corsage by kuot of flowers or one
of the jeweled flower pins to match
the blossoms on the hat.
Huge hats of Leghorn 90 through q
sort of process of evolution in the
hands of the milliner, and come forth
as pokes, shepherdess hats, "La
Tosca" shapes-even "Tam O. Shan.
ters''-with much be-huted brims
and, like everything else in the way
of head-covering, laden with flowers,
Hats are steadily growing larger and
lower-crowned, but there is ALWAYS
something in the way of capotes fol
the elegant few who will not wear bic
hats in the city. One of the latter il
a handful-one can scarcely call il
more-of green rose-leaves, lightened
here and there by half-opened buds
q single larger flower and a bud placed
above roll of dark-green velvet fol
face trimming. And another is q
soft crown of green crepe de Chine, a
close roll of green velvet for a rim
and Q wreath of ox-eyed daisies
caught by bow of green shaded
ribbon.
Green is the color par escellence Of
thesseason, and the newest shades are
dainty, lovely and spring-like. But il
is not only the newest shades that are
popular, and anything from the green
greenness of the shade known az
Parrot" TO the mystical silvery radi.
ance of the new "Rhine-water'' is
fashionable. Even brides wear green.
At morning wedding on Easter Mon.
day the bride relieved the indefinite
beige tints of the travelling dress in
which she appeared at the altar by a
little bonnet Of white silk crepe.
trimmed with white moss roses and
moss-green ribbon strings.