Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1879 — Stylish Bonnets. [ARTICLE]

Stylish Bonnets.

The conservatism of fashion has happly fixed upon a compromise between the bonnet in ordinary and the very large shapes which indicated the styles among early importations. Crowns are to oe as large as the head, with narrow brims, or no brims at all, as in the turban and Persian shapes. The soft capote, a becoming enlargement of the bebe bonnet, so charming on little girls, with full crown gathered in the center is the dressy bonnet for most persons. A select millinery house shows, among many admired examples of its own skill, one exhibiting Virot’g supreme taste. A dark olive green capote, the velvet laid smoothly over the crown but caught in folds at the sides, with a double shirring of velvet for the brim, a half bandeau of iw leaves in impeyan feather at the left joining a crimped feather of changeable dark green, filled with spangles of peacock jet whose exquisite change of blue, green and bronze gives a perfect finish to the grave, rich coloring. A soft capote, of home make, is of watered velvet of a deep maroon shade with puffed rim, the crown caught in the center by two filigree gold-ball drops* and two garnet-shaded ostrich taps falling to the right across the front A bonnet in Rembraat brown has the

crown of velvet and brim of royal in over the face, facing of drawn capuchin satin an pnff band of satin and brown velvet, and two tips of shaded brown and two orioles at the aide. A capote of striped cashmerienne, in which rich tones of gold, bronze, reddish pink and purplish blue blend perfectly, is canght by two balls of pierced gold, which imitate the pendants on the Persian cap. The front is fine satin polk over large rouleau, suggesting the turban twist. — N. T. Evemng Post.