Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-04-18
FASHIONABLE OK OTHERWISE.

IT has now become quite a fashion to
turn the natty sailor hat up at one side
or in the back, instead of leaving it
straight all around
GRADUALLY we are returning to larger
shapes in hats, and low crowns and
wide brims are once again distinguish
ing features in millinery.
"WIsTERIA" is the name of new
color which is shade between crushed
strawberry and violet. Rosy heliotrope
would best convey the idea of its par
ticular tint.
A LARGE low-crowned Leghorn straw
has the brim behind turned up and
fastened upon the crown. Out from be-
meath it start long sprays of English
ivy, which cover the hat almost COM
pletely over. A big rosette of very pale
pink tulle is placed on one side with a
dark-feathered bird hid in its folds.
BLACK and green are among the
acknowledged colors Of the immediate
future, both for dress and millinery uses.
Among the models in the latter, black
straw hats have bands of plated rushes
or fancy braid introduced in the brim.
green and black MORE ribbons form the
trimming, and sprays of maiden-halr
fern, trailing ivy, or pale green grasses
are introduced.
In natty spring and summer fashions
host of details are borrowed from gen.
tleman's dress. There are narrow and
flowing cravats, both plain and colored ;
pleated shlrt-fronts, tiny jeweled studs,
scarf pins, and linked buttons for throat
and sleeves, with close, high corsage.
worn, this copied from the masculine
toilet of a former epoch.
A BIG portrait hat of black velvet, to
be worn by a tall rosy blonde, turns up
resolutely on one side, and it's wide
brim comes well down over the face in
front. Broad silver lace edges it about,
and three or four half plumes of black
ostrich feathers hang over the crown,
mixed with white aigrettes. There are
bows of white satin ribbon and long
streamers o. white lisse.
In hats the large Gainsboroughs of
last year appear again, but under differ
ent names. Turbans in soft straws are
iavorites, but the positive novelty of the
season is the fancy hat bent by the mil
liner in any fashion her notion suggests
from the leghorn fat. To generalize a
little, the hat has lower, rounder crown
than in three years past, but its brim is
wider, more defiant and more capable
of all sorts of bewildering effects.
SPEAKING roughly, the bonnet empire
is divided between the capote and the
poke. The capote confines itself to
color, the poke runs to shape. The
capote is the smallest bonnet of the
year. 1t is, as to frame, much like last
years capote, but rounder and more
compact It's buslness-like but brilliant,
covering itself with irridescent lace
straws, heaping up the flowers but al
lowing no flying loose ends. 1t is the
married woman's bonnet, settled in life
though grand. The poke attends to the
picturesque department, and is especial
ly suited to young girls.
THE exhibition of models for spring
wraps is extremely varied, and although
it is almost impossible to find any
special shapes that are strikingly novel
in style, the rich and uncommon fabrics
and garhitures which form them render
with a visite black and sling sleeve
made of mahogany, terra Gotta, moss,
olive, laurel green, or black velvet, and
lined with shot silk, is a favorite dress
wrap. The Clyde Park" coat is an
other popular style. This molds the
figure like glove, is trimmed with silk
braidwork or galioon, and opens over a
primrose-yellow silk vest.
THE newest thing in jewelry is Curl
Gus combination of textile fabrics with
the precious stones. A chrysanthemum
pin has top made in imitation Of the
flower from a mass of yellow floss silk
Something like a hundred small yell
low diamonds stand out upon it, being
mounted on invisible gold wires
buried in the floss. A daisy pin pre-
scented to Miss Terry the afternoon be-
fore she sailed on the Saale was con-
structed in the same way. White silk
formed the flower and small white dia-
monds made it sparkle. The stem of
the daisy, some two or three inches long,
was ofgreen gold copied from nature. A
bunch of hops is as successful a
design as any yet tried in this way.
Emeralds are the jewels peeoing from
green silk. The "art" flowers intro
duced this winter are sometimes jew
eled. An art rose to pin on the corsage
or, after the lately revived fashion, to
put in the hair, initiates in its texture
the natural rose leaf. Even when you
touch it you are supposed not to dis
cover that it did not grow in garden.
Even for fastidIous people the art flow
ers are meant to be satisfactory and
economical substitutes, in the ball room,
for the real thing. Diamond dewdrops
destroy the illusion, however, though
they are too pretty to frown upon.