Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1875 — Bonnets and Hats. [ARTICLE]

Bonnets and Hats.

The latest Importations of French millinery are large bonnets with flat crowns and wide brims. These bonnets are worn far back on the head, and the brim is covered by a full wreath of flowers, not merely a branch or a vine but an entire wreath, the ends of which meet together behind. This style is very handsome for white chip bonnets that are trimmed with black —mixed velvet and gros grain—and fine white flowers. No color is as much used by stylish milliners as rich creamy white silk, and we are rapidly returning to the pure white bonnets of seven years ago; a great many black bonnets are still used, but the preference evidently is for light colt ors, and, with leaden of fashion; for white bonnets. Black bonnets are no longer entirely black but are brightened up by bows, scarfs and pipings of creamy white gros grain or else by the deep scarlet hues now so much in vogue, either in silk or in flowers; the few black bonnets that have no relief of color have very finely-cut jet leaves and bands on the coronet brim to give luster to the dull, rich gros grain of which they are made. A braid of silver around the edge of French bonnets is not objected to by the most fastidious tastes, but the heavy filagree ornaments have a tawdry look. The band of chip of contrasting color used as a border on hat brims has become very popular and is seen at the best houses. Damask ribbons are not liked as well as the less showy twilled ribbons, yet they are chosen to wear with costumes made partly of damask silk and partly of gros grain. Very few feathers are seen on bonnets, though round hats are still trimmed with them; even those designed for midsummer have wings and plumes. The profusion of-flowers increases until the material of the bonnet is almost concealed by them. Two long’sprays of flowers hanging from the back down to the waist are = worn on young ladies’ bonnets. The Derby hat already described is the round hat sent out by the best Parisian milliners. This has an ample high round crown with sufficient brim to shade the eyes well. This brim does not come tu a point on the forehead, but is wide above the brow, and is rolled back from the edge all around. Black, brown and white chip Derby hats are imported. i The first black one sent out by a 'fashionable French milliner has a black satin cord on the edge of the brim and black velvet laid smoothly on top of the brim where it rolls. A scarf of cream-colored gros grain and another of black velvet are twisted together around the crown. A long cream-colored ostrich feather starts from the front and sweeps over the crown, and a sharp black wing is stuck in the front slightly toward the left side. White chip Derby hats are similarly trimmed with black velvet and white gros grain and black and white ostrich feathpre. The roll on the edge of the brim is not merely a binding of velvet, Ijpt seems to be a thick piping cord; it is set on for ornament, and the fine braid of the brim is not concealed by facings; sometimes another cord or a piping of velvet or of gros grain is inserted in the braid half an inch from the edge of the brim. A stylish White Derby has mignonette green velvet and plumes for trimming; another of pearl-colored chip has bottle green velvet for trimming, and a long Mercutio plume of pearl gray Brown chip hats have scarfs with long streamers of brown gros grain pinked on the edges, With wings and plumes of cream-color and brown. Garden hats are Marie Antoinette flats of Leghorn braid or of chip, with very wide, flat brim, of equal width all around, but curved to droop in front and back. Those of Leghorn are trimmed, with black velvet and ostrich plumes, either black or white, or perhaps both together. Black chip flats have full ruches of pink gros-grain around the brim and under it, and sometimes there, are wreaths of small flowers mingled with the ruches. The sailor hat will return to favor when the warm days come. It is the most girlish of all the shapes and most generally becoming to round young faces. Those of brown, black or white split straw are trimmed with wide gros grain ribbon, either blue, black or brown, and fastened by silver filigree buckles. The English walking hat, the Derby, and the new toque with drooping front and turned up back are all worn. The most coquettish hats are those with flaring brims caught up on one side by a rose. Full wreaths and clusters of flowers inside the brim give a mature look to young faces.—-Harper's Bazar.