The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-04-20
SPRING MILLINERY.

Spring millinery is trifie eccentric,
and, therefore, not quite as attractive
to the majority of persons as when ii
showed more conservative styles. Very
few people like marked departures in
millinery, and it is only to the very few
that they are becoming. Once in while
there is a radical novelty that looks well,
but for the most part, millinery is as cir.
cumsc,ibed as propfety, and when one
goes outside of certain lines, there is sure
to be trouble.
Small bonnets are admissible foI
ladies of all ages. They are snug and
close-ftting, and have less trimming
thar usual; but this trimming should be
very handsome, and must be arranged
in q very artistic fashion. The frames
of some of the new bonnets are in mod,
fled toque shape, and not so stylish or
becoming as many of the models shown
on former occasions. The bonnet OF
the present sits too squarely across the
top of the head to be pretty. The be.
coming bonnet should extend down the
sides, or be finished with an arch in
front. The perfectly fiat, round shape
is trying, and while many of these will
be worn, most women will accept them
with few grains of reluctance.
Some of the new shapes are covered
with velvet, others are mass of gauze
in puffs, folds and plaitings; others are
lace-covered, and some exceedingly
pretty material in the way of lace braids
and old-fashioned fancy Neapolitan and
Tuscan are shown.
There are some fiat bonnets that are
perched high upon the head over the
hair. In silhouette they bear a very
striking resemblance to an old-fashioned
fiat saddle. They are very elaborately
filed in under the front and back edges
with plaitings, pufs, ruchings and tiny
plumes. There are velvet strings which
tie under the chin in bow. Some of
the velvet strings have the effect of
stirrup straps, and are not, as rule, be-
comingly arranged.
It must not, however, be imagined
that ladies are under obligations to wear
these eccentric bonnets.
There are pretty, close-6tting shapes
which have scarcely been out of market
tor score of years. One style. espe-
pially, has been seen so often that the re.
mark has frequently been made that it
must be old enough to vote, even if its
wearer could not. It curves down over
the sides of the head, is slightly rounded
up in ihe back, and has brim turning
out very little at the top and sides. The
trimming is of loops Of velvet, small
plumes, rolls or bows of ribbon, and as
the season advances, will be of flowers
and foliage.
There are some very pretty hats with
moderately high crowns, rather narrow
brims rolled up at one side. A spray of
flowers or plumes is set under the up
turned edge of the brim, and the hat is
trimmed with loops of ribbon, flowers or
knots of velvet or lace, and sometimes
all of these materials massed together.
Round hats will be popular. The brims
may be bent in, curled over, and tucked
up in all sorts of fanciful fashions, or
they may be left straight and tapping.
Young ladies will wear hats in preference
to bonnets for all ordinary occasions, and
in many cases for dressy wear.
Children's hats are wlde-brimmed,
round and very simply trimmed with
flowers and ribbons.-New York Ledger.