Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-06-09
SPRING BONNETS.
Wonderful Variety i'll the Fashions fol
Headwear This Year.

Wonderful Variety i'll the Fashions fOr
Headwear This Year.
Noticeable even to careless observ-
er is the scarcity of hats that are plain
ly intended for dressy occasions. This
is because the tendency to discard
headdress at such times is now mark
ed The hair is done elaborately, and
frequently tying soft coil with a rich
bow Of ribbon offers an establishment,
though it is a part of the Golf and in
no way headdress.
Among the hats that make no at
tempt at dressiness sailors are plenti-
full. The untrimmed sorts show wide
brims, fairly low crowns and wide rib
bon bands. 1t is pleasant to note,
too that such of these hats as are suit
able for wear with yachting rigs, ETC.,
will be large enough to do without
elastic The great trouble has each
season been that these sailors have all
been in small head size. With trim
med sailors the brims are higher than
ever
Gewgaws are no longer admissible
on millinery. Artistic buckles and Or
| naments are often employed to add to
| the beauty of handsome hats, but COM
| mon substitutes never. Little soft
tams of velvet, finished with a single
outstanding plume held in place by a
rich jewel, may be worn with cos
tune to match late in the season and
| if there is a soft, folding of rich lace
against the hair all around, such a hat
will serve for the entire season. We
are no longer as absolute as we used
to be about straw for summer and felt
| or velvet for winter.
Wells will be worn with all hats. The
| big spot veil is out of style all of a
sudden. You see it worn great deal,
but that is one proof that it is gone by.
| The correct veil now is delicate mesh
that really offers protection to the
| skin. White chiffon spotted in black
| is becoming and is to be much worn,
and there are shown very delicate
weaves for wells showing mixture OF
black and white threads.
| The straws for early wear are very
rough and are trimmed for the most
| part with velvet. The velvet trimmed
straw is an appropriate compromise be-
| tween the heavy felts of winter and the
airy millinery of summer.
| Purple violets will be more popular
| than ever, if such a thing can be pos
| sible, and white violets appear as a
| novelty of the season.
Camellias are a new flower for mil
| linery use, and so are reproductions OF
| delicate orchids The latter are almost
as expensive at first cost as the genu-
| inc orchid, though naturally they last
| longer.
| All flowers will be much used, and 1t
| seems likely that feathers will as the
season advances be less and less en-
| ployed in millinery effects, though
among the early flower toques, which
! are hardly more than series of flower
| knots, fastened together in the cir
| cling folds of ribbon, are many that
are ornamented by single outstanding
| ostrich plume. For these plumes white
or black is the color without reference
| to the hues of flowers or ribbon.
| Pink will be shade most highly fav-
| ored in the millinery world this sum-
mer Pink roses-not the dull, siekly
looking kind that seem to be afraid 20
be too bright, but roses that look ex-
actly like natures own-will grace any
number of straw hats for young maids
and matrons alike.
Crisp pink taffeta ribbon, something
| that has long been out of vogue as a
, hat trimming. will be revived for sum-
uer millinery use