Daily camera., 1897-12-31
HATS AND BONNETS.
Helpful Hints for Designers and Pur-

Helpful Hints for Designers and Pur-
.chasers.
The French this season are. making
hats of brown to wear with sables and
mink furS or any colored rig, and the
brown haired woman is taking to them
with a full appreciation CT her oppo--
tunities. But even with the rule that
every brownhaired woman looks well
in brown, one needs taste to carry out
the color scheme well after all. In the
first place, only the rich clear browns
must be used, and that excludes many
cheap materials of dingy dyes. dark
brown-haired girl, with colorless and
/ slightly sallow skin, should wear yel-
low browns and never russets, anything
with red tending to make her still more
colorless. Yellow browns and tans,
then, with vivid touches of green next
the face, or of greenish blues, such as
turquoise blue, or robins egg blue. 1t
+ is important to dress the head and
throat in these colors, the rest of the
toilet being possibly of another that
she may fancy, but which does not ap-
proach her skin.
| The brown-haired brunette, with
brown eyes and brown skin, can wear
aimCst any brilliant brown, with blues
and reds and even oranges for contrast,
while the yellow brown-haired bru-
nette, with gold in her skin, and a lit
tie. white, freckled nose, should wear
| golden browns with yellows and mas
/ turtium colors. For these various types
| here are the ecru brown wells, the yell
! CIV brown wells, and the chestnut
Crown, in gauze and nets and chitfons-
each should decide upon the one most
becoming and stick to it, and not buy
my brown veil regardless of shade.
The great use of fur upon hats this
autumn gives these brown maidens no
Cd of chance for killing effects, as
cable, or mink, or brown astrakh2l, or
brown bear, can al. Ie used fetching
" on brown hair. with dash CT color
and mass Of brown wings or feathers.
Gray wells, with gray hats, are very
lovely on those with pink and white
skins, and to be very up to date the veil
should be a long one brought about the
throat and tied under the chin after
Being secured trinity about the hat.
These lengths come in lace as well as
in lace-edged nets and tulles, the ends
cr the best often finished with rutI1es
of lace.
F. DIack-haired women look especially
fetching in violet or purple velvet
tCques, with glossy iridescent black
wings and tails, and violets and pam
sles nesting next the hair, although
velvet rosettes, not unlike roses in fern,
are more fashionable this season than
the artificial flower, unless we except
the ever popular violet.
A little blonde was charming on an
afternoon recently trying on dainty
bit of a theater bonnet composed of tur-
quoise studded white lace butterfly,
with twist of cloth of gold and a bit
of crmine, the whole yelled with pale
pink tulle, and little yellow tip curl
ing about next the gold hair. For a
Titan blonde there was a bonnet built
Of bunch Of sable tails dropping pret-
tily from a clump of cerise velvet ro-
Settes, a shaded russet brown tip stand
ing UP on the top of the head.
The gray-haired woman will find tar-
monies in grays most becoming by fol-
lowing the general tone Of her hair,
which may be steel or iron gray, or
green gray. y harmony Of silver
and nickel grays with sparkling cut
steel and gray tips and black aigrette
is beautiful on iron-gray hair, dash
CT emerald green or Of turquoise blue
being added if the face is colorlcss. II
the skin is still brilliant, no relief is
needed, although for evening wear
coral or cerise is fetching and becom-
ing. If one has gray hair streaked or
tingcd with yellow, greens and yellow
browns should be worn rather than
gray, this with purples or blues only
intensifying the yellow into an un-
pleasant dinginess. Yellow lace on
such hair is becoming by bringing cut
the gray rather than the yellow, MAX
ing with bit Of green tips charming
bonnet for dressy wear. Gray hair that
is streaked with yellow should be treat
cd by dermatologist, who can restore
it to siivery or iron gray of even tone.
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