Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-07-26
SUMMER MILLINERY.
Foliage, White and Tulle BOnnets, Flo
ara and Trimmin&n.

Foliage. White and TuIle Bonnets. Flow
ers and TrimminEs.
Foliage bonnets are made to rival
the pretty flower bonnets. those most
admired being made of rose leaves In
tender green sprays mounted on a wire
foundation that is covered with invisi-
BILE green tulle. The front of the brim
is entwined with green point d'esprit,
which Grapes the edge effectively: an
erect spray of the leaves gives the
height of an aigrette; the short strings
(each only half yard long, are of
leaf green velvet ribbon to be tied in a
small bow by the wearer, and there
are tiny pins. like rubies set in gold.
thrust in the net on the edge of the
front. Ivy-leaf bonnets are also in
great favor, and there are others of
forest leaves, in which there are some
autumn tinges, but the latter are not so
appropriate for summer as the rose
leaf bonnets. Thick green stems and
dark leaves with red berries are used
for garden bonnets. For flower bon
bets the smallest blossoms, such as for
get-me-nOts, Parma violets of the
palest shades. heliotrope and haw-
thorn are employed by some milliners.
while others use large roses without
foliage. finishing yellow roses with
black velvet ribbon bow and strings,
and the bright yellow Marechal Mel
roses with edges OF green ribbon vel
vet. In all flower trimmings stems
are long and conspicuous. especially
the stems of roses with many thorns
upon them.
White bOnnets for dressy summer
wear are of the new fancy chip braids
that have double rows of loops. Some
of these have wide open space be-
tween the brim and the crown, which
is filled in with puff of white lisse
from ear to ear; others have q cluster
of white roses outside and inside the
front in the point above the forehead.
and loops of white velvet ribbon come
forward from the back of the crown.
If touch of color is preferred for
white chips. the sides are covered by
pink roses without foliage. surmounted
by an Alsacian bow of black ribbon
velvet dropping in two loops on the
sides, and there are short strings Of
black velvet. This bonnet is said to be
with almost any dress that
is fashionable this season, alike as a
morning or an afternoon costume.
Tulle bonnets are chosen to match |
the color of the dress. and are made |
light for midsummer wear,
as they dispense with all heavy frames.
and with still heavier jets or other |
beaded trimmings, consisting of care
less folds, puffs and twists of tulle
across frame of thread-like wire, and |
for decoration only one large poppy |
with smaller bud and bunch of long |
spiked green leaves. This posy of |
peoples is placed low far back on the I
left side. and sometimes bunch of the |
leaves is laid fiat across the top from |
side to side. A pale green tulle
bonnet has a scarlet poppy and bud.
while dark green tulle has pCsy of |
yellow peoples. Black tulle bonnets
have fleur-de-lis. or white daffOdil.
Or yellow jOnquil cluster with the long
leaves tied together. Pink point
d'esprit bOnnets and others of dark blue
net have white carnations or else white
daffodils arranged in the English posies
already described.-Harper's Ba.ar.