Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-03
SPRING MILLINERY.

Spring millinery is n tribe eccentric.
and, therefore, not quite rs attractive
to the majority of persons as when it
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 a while
there isa radical novelty that looks we'll,
but Tor the most part, millinery is as cir.
cumsc'ioed as propricty, and when ono
goes outside of certain lines, there is sure
to be trouble.
Small bonncts are admissible TO,
ladies OF all ages. They IRE snug and
close-titting, and have less itrimmino
THAI usual; but this trimming should be-
very handsome, and must be arranged
in very artistic fashion. The frames
Of some of the new bonnets arc in mod.
flied toquc shape. and not so stylish or
becoming us 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 fat, 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 rauze
in puffs, folds and plaitings; others are
lace-covercd, 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 very
striking resemblance to an old fashioned
fiat saddle. They are very claborately
filled in under the front aud back edges
with plaitings, puffs, 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 arc not, as rule, be.
comingly arranged.
1t must not, however, be imagined
that ladies are under obligations to wear
these eccentric bonncts.
There are pretty, closc-ftting shapes
which have scarcely been out of market
tor score of years. One style. espc-
pially, has been seen so often that the re.
mark has frequently been made that it
must bc old enough to vote, even if its
wearcr could not. 1t curves down over
the sides of the head, is slightly rounded
up in The back, aud has a brin turning
out very little at the top and sides. The
trimming is of loops of velvet, small
plumes, rolls or bows of ribbon, and rs
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 I'D.
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, curlcd over, and tucked
up in all sorts of fanciful fashions. or
they may be left straight and tapping.
Young ladies will wear hats III 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.