Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1874 — Bonnets. [ARTICLE]

Bonnets.

A bonnet to match the dress is so universal that a costume seems incomplete and ineffective without it. Seal brown and invisible green are the colors milliners have most call for; there are also stone grays, plum color, grayish-blue and pure dark blue without any purple in it. Almost all bonnets have a roll or twist of velvet and silk under the brim, thus making it look very high. Contrasts of color are the exception this season, though peach blossom with brown, and lemon-color with myrtle green, are used with good effect. Very little lace is seen in winter bonnets, and jet has become so common that milliners use it very carefully. Ostrich feathers, either mere tip s demi-long, or the single long Mercutio plume, are found in all handsome bonnets. Ladies are advised that the single quill feathers are the most economical purchase, though more expensive and thinner-looking than “made feathers;” the natural feather costs from ten to fourteen dollars in its best qualities, but may be curled over and worn many seasons. The choice flowers are soft, loosepetaled roses that look as though they could he blown apart. "Two shades of red,in flowers, or else in flowers and gros grain, are seen on many black velvet bonnets. A black velvet bonnet without crown trimming, but merely a Mercutio plume and loops, has two reds in front, consisting of six gros grain loops of cardinal color, on which rests a large, dark brownish-red rose with embrowned leaves. Clusters of unblown rose-buds, showing some red just bursting through their green calyxes, are tied together 90 that their flexible stems show, and used for back trimmings; indeed, any loosecut flower, such as a single rose or lily bud, with its long stem, is pendent low on the left side of the bonntt.— Harper's Bazar.