Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1875 — Spring Bonnets. [ARTICLE]

Spring Bonnets.

A Paris correspondent writes: “ Notwithstanding the cold weather the spring bonnets are out in full bloom and beauty. They are very, wry pretty this season and very becoming to almost any style of feminine face. The old, graceful gypsy shape, set rather on the back of the head yet coming well forward and fitting closely and snugly oyer the back hair, is the most in vogue. The high brim of the front stands up somewhat too much above the head for actual beauty, but when the space is filled in with flowers the effect is good. Flowers are to be worn in lavish profusion. Ev- « ary fashionable bonnet now looks like a perambulating bouquet. Flowers fill up the brim, load the front, wreath the crown and dangle in long, drooping sprays over the wearer’s shoulders. Rice straws and the coarser straws are in great favor. A very beautiful bonne* which was shown me was made of rice straw. The exterior disappeared completely under a wreath of wheat, oats and poppies, and long sprays of oats drooped at the back. The high brim was lined with black velvet with a single bow of poppy-colored silk set at one side. Another was cf black straw with

a broad scarf of white matclasse Surah tied around the crown and held down in front by a large cluster of tea-roses. Over the crown was laid a row of mingled white and black ostrich feathers, ten being employed to form this garniture. A wreath of tea-roses inside the brim and broad strings of while matelasae Surah completed the whole. A delicate and graceful bonnet for a young girl was composed of rice straw, with a wide puff of blue silk around the crown; the brim was lined with blue silk and filled in with pale pink rosebuds. All these were of the gypsy shape. Another very pretty and youthful-looking bonnet of rice straw had the wide brim that was so popular last year; it was lined with pale blue silk, the brim raised at one side and confined with a bow, and a wreath of forget-me-nots encircled the front; the crown was shaded by two long and very rich pale blue ostrich feathers. A shape specially reserved for young girls is somewhat like an inverted saucer, which does not sound very effective but which on the head is very stylish and pretty.”