St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-15

oSy l. saw tMO SIlS III UCCouhlJS AdtS'
| sketched them as they stood in the
lobby of theater. They had put
their wraps into the place provided by
the manager for checking them, but
they had no notion of following the
London custom to the extent of going
bare-headed into the house, when they
knew themselves to be sOnicely hated.
The shapes were odd and original.
Their dresses, also, were the latest sort
Of thing in gowns and pretty enough to
copy. writes Clara Belle in the Cincin-
natl Enquirer. How needlessly fright
full woman may make her
self by recourse to unhe-
coming millinery. The oldish,
shrewish-looking creature ought to
wear soft graceful bonnet, never a hat,
! and especially nothing so stiff, so try
ing to hard face as hat with stiff.
horizontal brim. The pretty, youthful
girl could not be unhandS0me in any
thing. but when woman gets beyond
thirty she must be careful Of her head,
unless she be positively beautiful, if
she would be presentable. Now, flaunt-
ing Showine>S of hat, while it some
times renders big woman picturesque,
| and, therefore, may be pardOned, ought
never be INDUCED in by gentle young
girl. L saw maiden from the country
at my dresSmaker's yesterday. Her
mother had bought 4 quite over-power-
ing though stylish hat for her, and had
then brought her there to be measured
| for garments.
II can turn your daughter into Styl-
iSh young lady," said the artistic and
conscientious expert, ''but it won't be
of any use if she is going to wear that
hat: 1t would spoil all otherwise per-
feet outfit"
The mother wisely listened to reason,
and | have no doubt that in week the
maiden will become as lovely in attire
| as she is in face.
| of the new year ought to be considered.
| low crowned, with straight and
narrow brims, and high crowned
with very broad brims turned up
! sharply at the back. With bands of
| fancy braid, studded with beads or
| with jet blocks, are much used as trim
| ming for encircling the crown of the
| smaller shapes, leaving only the brim
| and the top of the crown visible, both
| these being, as a rule, of velvet. The
trimming placed at the back, where the
brim is narroweSt, consists of bows of
ribbon Sewed on at the edge of the
| crown, with short loops falling down.
| of the crown. A fancy feather plume is
| sometimes added to the bows. The
| large hats are usually of felt bound with
| braid, and deliberately trimmed with
| ribbon and feathers far back on one
| side. They are imposing looking edifices,
| but very becoming to many types
| of beauty. While both high and low
crowned hats are worn, there is far
more variety, of style among the high
| crowned models than among those wit
| low crowns, which all partake more or
| less of the shapes of sailor hats. These
| hats are. however, extremely becoming.
especially when the brim is rather vide
| in front, but narrow and turned up at
| the back.
! Some of the shapes of bonnetS coy
cred with material are very fanciful; a
| few have pointed, conical crowns, 9TH
ers are jndented or f1uted, and every
variety of curve, point and peak may be
| found in the brimS. The new capotes
are small in size; the crown is
fiat and sloping, rather high, anu
| generally cut up i'll pointed
opening at the back; the brim is
either turned up in diadem shape in
front, or else it is slightly raised and
open; the short, close-iitting sides are
rounded off gradually toward the back,
or end squarely, in which case strings
are imperative. A few felt bonnets
have pointed peaked brims, but this
shape is more adapted for velvet and
other materials laid on a stiff shape.
Very pretty capOtes are made of velvet
stretched on the shape, and braided on
| the crown and brim; others have fluted
plating up the center of the crown,
starting from point and gradually be-
coming wider, and then spreading out
into fan-plaited brim at the top, but
with plain sides like an ordinary capote.
LARGE POKE BONNETS
Of felt with nodding plumeS, bows,
loops and strings of Watered ribbon are
worn by little girls. These may he
white for very small girls, but for those
from eight to twelve years of age they