Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1877 — Novelties in Millinery. [ARTICLE]

Novelties in Millinery.

The bonnets worn at fee Longchamps races decide fee French fashions for summer millinery, hence fee last importations received since the races show novelties that had niH appeared when the Easter bonnets were sent out. One thing to lie noted is that these bonnets are no longer made to match suits throughout. One conspicuous feature is the revival of velvet and of velvet ribbons for trimming the fine Tuscan straws and chips. The rich velvet ribbon it satin on the other side, and instead of being merely fee black velvet so long used, ft is in fee new delicate colors, such as tllleul, buttercup, old gold, olive, maize, Holbein green, moonfight blue, pink, coral, mandarin and Vesuvius. The width known as No. 16 is used for trimming fee Tuscan straws in which Parisian milliners delight. The bonnet is first faced or lined with velvet, and the ribbon is put around the crown in very plain bands, wife loops below. Short ostrich tips, flower clusters, and Renaissance polished gilt' brooches, bees, or butterflies are the trimmings. The plain corn-color (maize), Holbein green, and old gold are fee colors most used in feb velvet ribbons, as, indeed, in all trimmings. For black bonnets, jet is sent out in more finely cut small beads than were ever before imported. It is sewed on fine black Brussels net to form fringes df slender quivering leaves to be worn drooping cn fee brim of fee bonnet, in insertions dotted wife fine small beads, in small lace crowns, with loops of the beads sewed on at intervals, and in small fringes made of straight strands or jet. Another novelty is black lace bonnets with long wide strings feat form a mantilla or fichu, which crosses on fee bosom, and is fastened on one side wife a rosette. This is very handsome in thread net dotted wife large spots, and scalloped on fee edges. For trimming, mandarin yellow satin is made in large rosettes to complete this Spanish bonnet. Colored straw bonnets in pistache, tllleul, bronze and even mandarin yellow, are shown for young ladies. A cottage shape of pistache straw is beautifully trimmed wife satin ribbon feat is olive on one side and pistache on the other; two pistache £lumes curl back on fee crown. Young Hies also like the pure white chip bonnets trimmed with delicate colors.

Among thin fabrics the novelty is the revival of old-fashioned thin crape, crinkled and transparent, like the English crape worn for mourning, but used in maize, tilleul and all the new tints. The new round bats to be worn during the spring in the city, and for the best hats in the country, are called jhe Pan! and Virginia hats. They are turned up on one aide far toward the back and have high crowns. Those for city wear are of black or brown chip, trimmed with a band of satin and of velvet around the crown; loops of satin cover the tumed-up side, and short ostrich plumes are held by colored pearl buckles or antique gold slides. Green and yellow tinted ehips and straw round hats are shown in similar shapes, trimmed with satin and feathers of the same color, and contrasting colon in flowers. Very fanciful little round hats are of navy-blue straw, with white Egyptian gauze veils, and their only trimming fine long-looped bows on the crown, made of satin ribbon that is cardinal on one side and blue on the other. Alsacian hows are very much used on the picturesque Alsacian and Watteau flats of Leghorn, chip, or Tuscan straws, to be worn at garden parties, fetes and the watering-places, in midsummer. These have broad brims, lined with pale blue or pink satin, edged with Valenciennes lace, bent in curves on the side, and under this soft brjm in front is a great Alsacian bow to match the lining; 6n the outside is a rose-wreath around the crown, or a great cluster of pink crushed roses, and satin bands. Others have the outside trimmed with gauze ribbon in rich India colors laid over loops of pale satin. New black net veils are in mask shape, with straw-colored dots and border of straw fringe. White net veils with dots of black, or dotted with white, are much worn in Paris. The fancy here for dressy veils remains for white tulle passed over the face, lapped behind the bonnet, and tied under the chin in a large soft bow.— Harper’i Bator.