Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-30
SUMNER MILLINERY.


ard M Hoke, in N. Y. Ledger.
SUMNER MILLINERY.
Bonnets, Hats and Toques for All Sorts
OF Occasions.
The open lace-like straws of spring
and summer bonnets are of such light
texture that they have to be mounted
on skeleton wire frames TO keep them
| in shape. They are laid in folds just
as other laces are along the crowns of
toques or bonnets. or they form the
| wide brims of round hats. and are left
transparent (without thick facing),
their pretty designs and scalloped
edges rivalling in beauty those of
Chantilly or of tulle, and being far
more durable. Black mohair lace
braids are most generally used, but
laces, and the metallic gold and silver
braid laces are still in favor for parts
of bonnets.
The large round black straw hat,
with low crown and lace-like brim
turned up behind, is the favorite for
young women, and its trimmings are
| a little black lace and great many
| flowers. roses, laburnums, green vines
or buttercups, with long stems, near
~ covering the crown, and looking as
if thrown there carelessly, though
really every flower is placed with
studied art The brim may have a
thicker, and there may be some flow
ers or a knot of ribbons under the
brim if becoming to the wearer, but
there is NO settled fashion in such
matters. the projecting brim, the
pointed brim, the halo brim, and the
indented brim. with or without face
| trimming, all being worn.
The toque capote is the bonnet worn
by young women who do not like round
hats for dressy afternoon wear, and is
| a small bonnet with long oval crown,
precisely like a toque. to which strings
are added. The strings are the velvet
pipings called milliners' folds. fastened
by a tiny chou or rosette of the folds
on the left side just below the ear, or
else they are inch-wide velvet ribbons
that begin in a point in the middle of
| the crown, then pass to the ears of the
bonnet, and are each left about three
| eighths of yard longer, to be crossed
under the chin and the pointed ends
carried back and pinned under the
| ears. A black net toque bonnet made
over gold wires, with half coronet of
pink roses in front and black Al
| sacian bow going down the sides, with
| strings merely to meet and tie, is
stylishly worn with almost any dress.
| Those who choose bonnets for each
gown have the long oval crown made
of the light fabric in the costume,
which is usually seen in the vest, the
DirectOire cravat, ETC., and add darker
velvet of becoming color for cover
| ing the brim next to the face. ALI
trimmings are low ON these bonnets,
| being small ckouE Of baby ribbon, fam
pleatings of lace, and above all the
| Alsacian bow, but as this fat bow is
not always becoming. an aigrette, Or
| standing lace rosette, or some erect
| loops of RIBBON, are added farther back
| on the crown.
The low toque without strings is
| chosen for city streets for morning and
| general wear and is SO simple that it
can easily be made by the home mil
liner to match different dresses. A soft
long low crown of the silk or wool of
the dress, with some straw braid on
the Lrim or else velvet in careless folds
slightly pulled in front, trimmed there
| with rosette of baby ribbons or some
wider loops holding small bunch of
small flowers, makes up the toque SO
universally worn.
Ladies dressing in deep mourning
have toque bonnets entirely of En-
glish Grape, while for lighter mourn
ing the crown is of Brussels net
| doubled in long folds over a wire
frame, with some point d'esprit lace
or else isse with scalloped edge along
the brim. and bow of gros-grain rib
bon on the left of the front. Other
bonnets have black China Grape
crown v it'll open straw brim, through
| which narrow black ribbons are drawn,
trimmed with an Asacian bow of gros-
grain ribbon, to which may be added
for those who require height rosette
of the narrow ribbon or of point
d'esprit placed far back on the top.
Flower bonnets, flower toques and
| round hats with flow er crowns are
made for very dressy occasions; the
flowers are large, and so few are used
that they do not entirely conceal the
prettily dressed hair beneath The
brim may be covered with closely
massed blossoms or buds, but is often
of straw lace. of tulle puffs, or of vel
vet, which is always becoming next
the face. As a flower bonnet contains
two or three colors. it may be worn
with, various dresses-with green
gowns because of the green leaves,
with pink or blue to match the roses
or uyosotis blossoms. and with dress
es of black net or white wool because
all colors harmonic with these gowns
i-Ha-per's Bazaar.