The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-05-23
FEMININE FASHIONS.
Notes the Latest in Millinery and
Dresses,

Dresses.
The headgear of the fashionable fair
is just at the present moment occupy.
ing more attention than almost any
department of dress. While few OF
the conserva tive styles have been re.
tanned with notifications there is al.
most revolution in general models.
The bonnet has been shrinking un.
til there is little of it left. Some OF
the new chip bonnets are scarcely
larger than ones hand. These are
narrow from front to back and long
from side to side, some of them being
pointed and extending almost to the
ears. They are set well back on the
head and are covered with masses OF
flowers, foliage, crimped lisse, lace
trimmings of various sorts, ribbon
bows, aigrettes or ostrich plumes. An
extremely stylish model is in the shape
pointed from ear to ear and extending
over the head. The trimming is Dor.
der of hawthorn, the blossoms set SC
closely together as to form a sort OF
roll or ban d, not in groups or single
flowers or scattered in the least, but
pressed in closely. This forms the edge
of the bonnet From either side are
bows with two loops wired and stand.
ingupright This is all of the trimming
required for shape of this kind. Bon
nets with projecting sections at the
sides have thick band of leaves over
the front and back and at the sides,
and, supported by the chip extensions
are very full bows that'stand out about
three inches from the sides of the
head.
A small bonnet of chip is trimmed
with side-plaited crepe lisse, with satin
stripes running through the edge.
This lisse is made into loops, rosettes
and fluffy plaitings, and all through il
are sprays of delicate flowers, the Tor
get-me-nots, heather, small violets and
spirRa being noticeable for their
beauty. There are many pretty bon
nets with jet edges, also bonnets made
entirely of jet with trimming of ribbon
loops and jetted aigrettes. These bead
bonnets are heavy, which is the only
objection to them, as they are extreme.
ly stylish and becoming to almost
everyone. There are bonnets with
large, puffy crowns with the edges of
chip, also a great deal of open-work
braid made into plaitings, rosettes and
coronets. Some of the bonnets are al
most enough trimmed to wear as they
are if one pins on a bit of flower and
foliage. One shape is a modification of
the small, close cottage bonnet
Around the edge is double plating of
the fine black chip that is at present SO
popular About the middle of the bon
net is another and wider plating
Very few Neapolitans are seen this
year, although those that are in the
market are very choice and expensive.
Black Neapolitan will be worn, espe-
cially in rather wide brimmed hats,
with ostrich-plume trimming and plait-
ed lace ruchings and rosettes, or a sim
liar trimming made of gauze ribbon.
A pretty fashion is -brim med
Neapolitan, the brim lined with
crimped gauze and caught up at the
back. The trimming is of the gauze,
with heavy ostrich plu mes.
While there are very many black
hats in market and black is one of the
standard colors, hats of every imagin-
able tints are much sought after. The
dainty chip that has come into fashion
within the last couple of years is dyed
in every possible shade, and can be
selected to match almost every cloth in
the market
For travelling wear the dress and hat
match, and trimmings to correspond
are selected. The travelling suit of
coffee brown cloth is trimmed with seal
brown and gold color. The hat is of
coffee brown, and the trimming is of
seal brown tips, with brown and yell
low doublefaced satin ribbon in loops
and bows, and roll across the back.
Ladies of ingenuity and taste buy
this chip braid by the yard, as it is sold
in this way, and make novel and eXclu-
sive styles for themselves
The special art in the seasons mil
linery is to get something stylish and
little out of the common. By this is
not meant anything in the line of &C.
centricities, but a conservative and
stylish combination. N. Y. Ledger.