The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-25
BONNETS ON EASTER
New Style Head Gear to Be Worn
To-Day il Weather Is Pleasant.
Several Rather Loud Shades to Be In
PRODUCED This Spring Season-Lit-
tie BOnnets for Theater.

All the millinery openings were held dur
ing the past week When the trees put ON
their new garb and the grass it's fresh
Color 1t has for many years been consid-
cred the proper time for humanity to make
a change from winter dress. and as Easter.
the great church festival, comes in the spring,
sometimes early however. il has been
chosen as the time for people to come out
In some new apparel. There are some
people who say they have heard that it
Is good luck TO come out in something new
on Easter. just a bride believes that
1t means fair fortune if she wears some
thing old. something new. something Dor
rowed and something blue when she be-
comes a Mrs, and these same people, who
would scOrn the idea of being superstitious.
begin at the top and appear in new hat
or bonnet.
Whenever the spring openings are held
1t means weeks Of rush for milliners, and
when the season comes so advanced as it
promised to be early in the week
they were Obliged TO work every
night and all night for a week
to have the hats and bonnets
ready for the opening. Most miIliners go
East to see what will be the fashion for
the coming season. and to buy hats and
bonnets that are said to have come from
England and France. The former country
seems to furnish the fashions for the
street and common hats, and France the
evening and dress bonnets. There are some
astonishing combinations this year, just as
there are. or always seem TO be, every
year. There are large hats and small bon
nets, and smaller, if possible than ever be-
fore. What strikes the beholder most fore
IDLY Is the richness and brilliancy of the
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and are what would have struck horror
10 shopper a few seasons ago horri-
bly, ugly. The queer shades of purple
with enough red 10 make il look like a
cheap blue overcoat after two seasons
wear. Nothing is too gorgeous. on one
and the same hat there may be blue pur-
pie, red, pink and green, not to say any
thing of the color of the foundation, which
may be of straw or lace.
Just as one is attracted by bright coors
and odd shapes. these constitute the main
points OF the hats and bOnnets which ap-
peared in the windows and show cases.
When the covers were lifted from the box
eS inside the store, palmer headwear came
10 light. The several wholesale houses had
crowds of milliners in TO see the styles
from the smaller towns of the State and
| these factors of fashion gathered up ideas
| from the leading houses, which send their
| New York. Thus the little fish feed on the
| big fish, inverSely TO the old adage. The
people who crowd the stores 10 see the
Easter bOnnetS are an interesting lot. If
| one can stand the crowd and the pushing,
| ii becomes a fine place TO study femininity
There is the young woman who is pretty
and knows il, and she tries on all of the
handsome hats; there is the young mar
| ried woman who wants a hat, just awfully,
for Easter, but her husband holds the
| pocket book, and was not inclined To under
| stand what she wanted when she told him
OF hundreds OF women who We're down
| town buying hats; there is the woman who
| wants a bonnet so much. and goes down
| just to see what there is and what other
| women are buying, but who has made UP
1 LET "a
| hat do for another season. This last woman
| knows that she Will be of this mind for
| at least month, when she will go down
| after every one else has bought a bonnet
| and she will take what is left There is
| the woman who is poor and loves nice
| things, and goes down and tries on hats
| when her ship comes in"
THE EXASPERATING WOMAN.
| Another woman, who is more than ex-
| asperating to the milliner and to every
| other person in the bonnet department is
| the one who goes early and secures the
head Of the department and hangs on to
| her, making her get out hat after hat and
| bonnet after bonnet and asking all kinds
of questions, pertinent and Impairment
knowing when she entered the place that
| she would not buy but Just enjoys keep
| ing the milliner from waiting on anyone
| else. Everybod has seen her and, as the
| girl said. experienced her.
| have brought out, a brief description will
| help some one TO form an opinion of what
| may be seen in spring and summer mil
| linery. Something which will delight the
| alter and opera-goerS is the evening bon
| nets. The newest are for those who have
| pretty hair and know how 10 dress il be-
| comingly The hat IL il may be dignifed
! with the term, is simply a band of ribbon
| or jet about an inch wide which just fits
| the head. On the front of this is a bow
| Of ribbon, rather a wide bow. and at the
| back IS bunch of flowers. 1t is only an
| and is SO small that, while il is something
| for the head. it cannot keep the neighbor
| behind from seeing the stage. In New York
| these bOnnets are all the rage, and after the
| matinees the ladies may be seen going home
| with these bonnets on.
| turbans, for street wear. These have a
| fiat and broad effect and trimmed with
| very broad bows and buckles and a bunch
| of the turbans. The English walking hats
| are larger. but they follow the ga me general
styles in trimming that the turbans have.
NEW KIND OF TRIMMING.
There are very few of the nice hats that
do not have some jet on them. new kind
of trimming is called the 'hitter." 1t is a
flat Jet, or something akin to Jet, for it
has the effect of jet, but may be had in
any of the fashionable colors or shades.
Its shape is like a spangle and it is held to
the hat, bonnet or lace with a single bead
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that are covered with the filter trimming,
and when one has this, there is need for
but little else. bow and flowers completing
it's decoration. a small hat in one of the
windows gives a good representation OF
what will be worn for calls and receptions.
| This had fine straw crown with lace
brim, and at the back there a butter
| fly bow OF fine lace and bunch OF
| flowers. \ second one almost n counter
part of it, had a bunch Of roses. y Leg
horn hat of last summer may be made
lovely for this season. IL was turned up
| in an odd way the back and the brim
was covered with black dotted lace, a vel
vet bow of black while a bunch of
saucy red and yellow silk roses kept guard
over the crown \ pretty Leghorn had a
| black lace butterfly bow on the back and
a broad bow with a jet buckle on the
front. Around the top of the crown was
a wreath Of viOlets and there was no top
10 the hat. the wearer's hair TO show
through the open space.
y novel hat had wide brim OF black
lace and a tall crown of black watered
silk. Prince OF Wales feathers and shaded
velvet roses We're the trimming.
| \ bonnet. quite unlike any other was
made OF a lace handkerchief The lace was
wired u the desired shape and the crown
was made OF fine straw: lace bows and
flowers composed TIE trimming one hat
seen had black lace brim and a lavender
straw crown and tne trimming was Of
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