Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 151, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1912 — Children’s Bonnets [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Children’s Bonnets

BONNETS of lace-straw and silk braids are shown, made up with light weight silks or ribbons, of high luster. Bright tones of blue and pink are used on many of them and tints of many colors ip, the soft and supple ribbons that form the trimming and sometimes part of the body of the bonnet. Fig. 1 illustrates a pretty combination. A fancy braid in deep ecrue forms the body of the shape. A quaint finish at the brim-edge is made by over-casting a tuscan straw cord about it. The shape bends outward in a deep scallop over the ears and is otherwise plain. The scant trimming consists of a wreath of small pink June rosebuds laid in the. simplest manner about the crown. At the left side a very full chou of ribbon, made of small puffs set close together, complete the childish design. It is ah adorable little model fitted to crown the straying curls or smoothly bobbed hair of little misses. It is worn without ties and fastens with an elastic cord under the hair. * Fig. 2 shows another combination in which a silk lace braid is combined with puffed ribbon to make the shape. Its foundation is a frame of fine silk wire. This frame provides

for the Dutch bonnet flare over the ears at each side, which is balanced by a crown like a, square in shape. The bonnet pictured here is made of light blue braid white messaline ribbon. The band of braid about the head is repeated in the facing and the edge Is finished with a puff of the ribbon. .The square crown is made entirely of braid and the crown is set on by means of a puff made of the ribbon. j At the left side a short bridle of ribbon, folded, is fastened to the frame with a small spray of little roses and terminates in a rosette of ribbon at the point over the ear. This is repeated on the right side and from these rosettes short ties extend, fastening under the cheek at the left, in a simple bow of two short loops and ends. The ties may be fastened on the Inside at the same points; this will allow more flare to the frame and give a closer fit, if it is desired. Ne w er was there so great variety to choose from in children's hats and bonnets, as are shown this season. But nothing is prettier than these, the simplest of designs made up of the materials and in the colors which have long been associated in our minds with headgear for little ones.

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.