Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1880 — Parisian Bonnets. [ARTICLE]

Parisian Bonnets.

I have paid a visit to the celebrated establishment of Madames Virot and Geargette. All the.bonnets there, as everywhere are richly and heavily laden with gold, for which those modistes make the adie* settle bill* that would warrant it to be all real and unalloyed metal. At Mme. Virot’s there was a simple rough-and-ready hat, trimmed with a single bow of-red satin, simply lined with satin of the same color, and the price of that hat was simply —s2ol Only that and nothing more. A handsome bonnet was one which, at a certain distance, looked like a golden ball. Its crown was made of transparent filigree work, shaped in either Japanese, Chinese or Egyptian designs. (One must be familiar with so much lore now to be explicit in fashions). The front dart of the little thing was totally covered withan immense" bow of light filigree gokt? other close fitting bonnet had acrown of white satin, on which was embroidered, with gold threads in relief the most bfeauJ tiful sheafs of wheat, studded with white daisies exquisitely worked with hearts of gold. The trimming was a bunch of gold-colored; marabout feathers topped with a white aigrette tipped With gold filigree. A young lady’s oonriet was of white silk, embrofdered“all over with forget-me-nota. The whole front was mdc or ol fwg*rmWbtiWl*M be fashionable. It is not pretty, nor should 1 think it would be very becoming. It has only one redeeming point«r-it is new. I saw several bonnets trimmed with it- one entirely coewoeedrf -heliotrope flo wars. Bird* of Wrery 4iue *nd kind are xiskSg tend. &Xs the lasfi resttjt Dltite. ' We walking along th&-boulevards# *aw a

ft was K big owl’* head with its great ’ nance. An odd-looking hat is the one Mademoiselle Pierson wore to go to the salon, “The Nabob.” - Ifwadan iifimense black broad-brimmed Nan Dyke, covered with black plumes; that, of course, is no tail fcfleKS WHEW* Ndt many rtisv hats.have come out as yet; Here are twe Very pretty Onfe however, that I aaw at the Oompagnie Lyonnaise on the boulevud...-A large scoop made of alterfiate Aanfiw brown £d cftnmiolorad straw, trimmefl wfc a j>ara(M*ebird <XR -«a£d k 5? dt brown velvet and cream-colored satin. That twist was the only trimming on the right side, being there fastened to the hat by gold-headed pins. The wai lined with bias bands of brown velvet and It was a beautiful Spring hat for a young Mdy.-rParfc <7orreapMrfsMs of tie dfstaw--T* Q i aXT J