The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-30

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sometimes the hats are in dark colors.
They are trimmed with the same marked
simplicity. While they will never be dressy,
they are pretty for ordinary ~runsbouts.
There are a few glazed ones for rainy days.
I do not know what the foundation of the
silk and satin hats is, but think it must be
stiffened muslin, and If SO they should not
be wet,
The round felt shapes worn with two
widely different colors, one outside and the
other beneath, will take the lead for fall
hats. as, being simply fat disks, they can
be folded, plated or cut into any shape or
style to suit the face. One of these had a
deep petunia face and q pale lilac back, and
this was split and the two cut places turned
back, while the rest was plated up into a
full effect. The whole was topped by q
bunch of purple heather. Anotherhad the
edges pared until it would when turned up
be a ponchinelle garnished with two bits Of
rosettes and half q dozen bronze quilts.
The felt to this hat was daring royal pur-
pie, which, with petunia, is among the most
popular colors.
Browns in the golden tints are also pop
ular, and they will take any kind Of trim
ming, or rather they have to, from crush
roses and Grape rosettes to fruits, such as
b~lackberries, cranberries and white null
berries, as we'll as the white mistletoe. The
three fruits mentioned above have never
before been produced for millinery pur-
poses, but they are certainly handsome as
trimmings. Another one OF these noil hats
has the front of the brim split about two
inches and turned up very high, somewhat
after the military style, there being a front
of roses and ~mignonette and the same flow
ers on the back part. One cannot say on
the crown, for there is none. There is q
narrow rouleau of wired ribbon sewn on,
which gives a hold for hatpins.
I have noticed that made up punches of
flowers are quite often seen on hats and
bonnets. There will be roses with mignon-
cite. candytuft, fern or heather or some
other light and branching flower. The
white wild clover is very eften seen min
gled with other flowers for millinery. Pc
tunias, dahlias and chrysanthemums are
seen often, and so are asters, in all colors,
and white and oxeyed daisies. These last
are always pretty and always in season for
those to whom the color is becoming.
For dress bonnets for middle aged and
elderly ladies nothing is SO rich or indeed
SO stylish as the jet bonnet, which is a
framework of jet more or less ornate.
Some have large beads, some small. For
theater bonnets the tiniest of shapes are
shown. One ! saw recently was q pretty
creation of black and white beads, wrought
into a lacelike pattern. There were strings
of ultramarine blue velvet and a bunch Of
blue Grape, gathered and held by a jet spray.
A style very much affected by young ladies
is one where the mercury effect can be
brought in by the use of wings. One such
hat has a high pulled crown of changeable
velvet, with two large mercury wings Of
iridescent dove colors set on the sides, lying
fat along instead of standing up. Crows
wings, blackbirds' wings and those of
pigeons and parrots are worn in this style,
as well as many wings made up out of
other feathers which give iridescent effects
not to be obtained in n-ature-that is, some
mercury wings are made of the small
bright feathers off a peacock's neck. I
noticed a set Of teal ducks wings which
were very pretty.
The Prince of Wales tufts of upright
plumes are also seen, as well as a few
Gainsborough and picture hats fairly COW