Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-01-19
NEW HATS AND BONNETs.

headgear in general that are the precursors
of spring millinery. Spring millinery is, ]
think, them most enticing and enhancing OF
all, just as spring is the sweetest time of
ME year, full as it is of promise. Perhaps
all the promises are not to be fulfilled, but
they are SO pleasant while there is yet hope
think l see a new era in millinery that
allows each person a greater liberty of per-
sonal preference than heretofore. The
young lady who takes long walks for
health, pleasure, business or to save car
fare wears an alpine hat of felt, black,
brown, drab or green, and that may be
trimmed in whatever style she prefers, for
some have a trimming of castle braid, with
perhaps one pointed quill. Others nave DO
trimming other thar a ribbon band and a
plain buckle. Others may have a drapery
of velvet or a few black. cocks plumes
curled over. The palmer these hats are,
however, the more stylish they appear, as
it is well understood that they are simply
runabout hats, and all attempts to make
them appear dressy are in very bad taste.
Next to the alpines come the high crowned
felts. These are also more for service than
beauty, yet they will admit of more elal-
crate ornamentation. One very pretty hat
4of this class had a drapery of black and red
chenille netting twisted in front, partly to
represent the form of a Gala lily, with a
stamen Tor pistiD of the same covered over
2 piece of wood. In the back there was a
bunch of cocks plumes closely curled over.
The hat was bound with black velvet.
Generally speaking, stiff quilts and orna-
ments made up of breast and wing feathers,
wings and osprey plumes are more popular,
particularly for Che young. thar ostrich
.plumes, but still there are some persons
who look better under the softer outlines of
ostrich feathers, and they are %undeniably
r;cher. A hat for a young lady displayed
lat a prominent milliner's was made Of
chocolate brown felt, and it was turned up
in such a as to form a point at each
side, leaving the back and front to flare up.
Around the outer portion of the brim were
sewed three narrow lines of copper colored
braid. There was an ample double bow,
with loops of seal brown velvet ribbon, held
By a long buckle of amber, and three rich
ostrich tips of chocolate brown, two up
right and one curled around from the front
on one side to the back, on the other along
the low crown.
l saw another very stylish hat, which
Jocks better when surmounting a pretty
face than it does in q picture. It was of
noA felt in gray and cherry lines, with a
very narrow milliner's roll of cherry velvet
on outside and inside of.the brim, about an
incl from the edge. 1t had a very low
round top crown, and the brim was made
auted-that is to say, it was too full on the
edge to lie fiat. This extra fullness was
gathered up into the most fanciful convo-
buttons. On the front and one side were
set cherry velvet ~rosettes and two odd
feather ornaments of brown hens feathers,
made to resemble pine cones, topped by
sprays of osprey. These from
their starting points to ends measured 10
inches and made a very modish hat.
For a girl not over 16 there was a very
beautiful large felt hat of dark blue, plain
felt, edged with silver braid. The trim
ming, which was composed of baby blue
bengaline, was laid on in a rather fat dra-
perry, ending with twisted points. From
the mass of drapery two light blue ostrich
tips curled closely, and one started from
under the brim and curled upward. 1t can
readily be understood that this hat was