The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-12-06

style now is not to cut much of IL of. Straight.
stitt aigrettes are used when the hair is worn
the head. Then as many AS thirty a~iGrettes are
fastened in a bunch On one eide with a diamond
PIN, II the wearer chances to have one. and
are left TO nod and hoh around in the
Tne curves are turned to The front or the back.
according to the shape OF the wearer's face and
the regularity OF her features. Many of the
aiRrettes for hair ornamentation are spangled
In silver and gold. and are very rhowy.. Some
striking resemblance to some bird. I, is hard
TO tell whether this Is true or or not. but when Il
features gets a bunch Of these tall aficrettes in
her hair. With the curve going backward. she
would make a running mate for a cockatoo.
Narabou feathers were never so much worn
in the hair on this side OF the Atlantic as they
are now. Old and young have taken them.
french women shun the marabou. Why? Be-
cause this duffy. innocent-lookinE little plume
makes one look old: 1t properly belongs to a
mother and a daughter occupied a box at the
opera on the opening night One wore a nigh
other a black one in her gray hair, ana the
Slaughter looked every bit as old as the mother.
seasons youngest and ~prettiest dGhutantes.
Wings Are making an effort 70 fly into vogue
one sees some woman with a pair ontspresd IN
her hair; A few years ago small bespanGlsd
sssHze % No9. f ssIs mS %ihe used o, in sr Sss'' brs.d sss
have taken their place. Hslei,.t Is given them
ny the use or u bunch OF sim algrettee. FloWer5
and feathers or %aigrettes are used in combina-
ton. A tiara Is made OF tiny ro,ebuds. forget
me-nots. or other small flowers, and straight
up from the centre shoots n bunch of feathers
or aigrcttes, the latter tipped with rhinestones.
These things were all worn In Paris last
year said an importer OF ornaments for tho
hair. It's a queer thing that the American
women didn't take to them last year. They
nearly always wait a year TO catch on to such
extreme styles and then the importers can
hardly get goods In fast enough for them. Since |
the opera. season opened we've been selling
dozens or feather nament for the hair eyery Y
day. and the greater height they have tho
better the women like them. These decora.
tions vary In price from 50 to S25 and
Al come direct from France or are made after
woman Puts in her hair ehe always ~fastens
them with a diamond pin or ornament II she
has one. IL The women who have real diamonds
would only realize how much better they look /
win just these gems and nothing else In their'
hair they, would fee from these ornaments I'd
nara on the dealers. It's really a good thing forN
M that tho women still have a remnant OIL
Daroarism left In their makeup. for that's just
what TINS craze for wearing feathers In the hair
amounts to. II has been said that the demand
Tor feathers for millinery and hair ID dressing pur-O
poses Is so great this season that feathers OF al y
kinds. and ostrich tips In particular, hRvV
uonnieu IN price since. the Horse Show and
opera Heason and are difficult TO obtain. This III
absolutely untrue. Feathers OF every qualitH
abundant and never 80 cheap as they are to-day,
"hnt a woman demands she must have, and
40 long as she pleases to make the orig
maj North American Indian turn over In HIS
the vision OF her head when she goes out in the
evening why she shall have. the feathera,
complish her desire"