Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1878 — New Bonnets. [ARTICLE]

New Bonnets.

New suggestions are found in the Paris bonnets brought out later in the season. The handsomest chips and straws have the inside of the frontlined with dark velvet or satin, and edged with a single row of gold braid or else the new rainbow braid that has tinsel threads of many colors to match the rainbow beads; they have no other face trimming. A great many beige-colored chip bonnets are in the late importations. Some of these are trimmed throughout with the same shade, having watered beige ribbon strings, satin or gros grain mops, ostrich tips and darker brown velvet for a bandeau bf fillet in front and for facing the brim and curtain. Other beige chips have deep cardinal red trimmings mixed with beige color, and for flowers a wreath of small strawberries with brown foliage. A new fancy in white chip bonnets is to have at intervals rows of rainbow tinsel braid. Some new chip bonnets are merely brims and curtain bands without crowns. The vacant space for the crown is surrounded with a wreath of flowers that form fringe, and t his fringe fills in the empty crown. Gilt rings, through which the silk or gftfrin in pflggftd ffrnmni the urown am

on many new hats. The large Alsacian bow is now made of narrow dpuble - faced ribbon in many loops, with, several ends indented or notched like saw teeth. M&ny pipings are on the edges of straw bonnets; some have the piping folds alternating with gilt soutache. A double bow of satin ribbon is set on straw curtains, and covers them entirely. Many rough straws or else figured satin straw bonnets are shown; some are all black, some white, some beige color, and many have gilt braid introduced, or else white lines are interwoven in the black. For dress bonnets' for summer beige tulle is embroidered by band in colors, such as olive, pale blue or pink. Gilded Greek fillets are imported to put in the front of bonnets. Brooches of dead gold are the mostsuocessful ornaments. Thick fringes of buds fall from under upturned curtain bands; other bonnets have pleated crepe lisse under the curtain. A large gut screw is an ornament of questionable taste seen on French bonnets. Less fruit is worn than last season, though there arc some luscious looking berries, cherries and plums. A noveltv is a wreath made of loops of ribbon grass, in green stripes and in maple red, with many ends of the grass cut in trident forks. Sage-leaf wreaths have stylish shades of green, and for color they are mixed with scarlet poppies. Many entire wreaths are in beige shades; these look well when representing pine cones, burs, thistles and seed pods, but the “sereand yellow” leaves are more especially popular; these are used on black and beige-colored bonnets. The olive shades of mignonette make it a most popular flower. It is combined with Jacqueminot roses and spikes of white lilacs. For little girls’ hatsjthe novelty is tine Manilla, with a wreath of flowers painted by hand on the soft brim. Wild flowers, poppies, bluets and trailing arbutus are artistically painted on these pretty hats. Boyish-looking straw hats with rolled brims and flat crowns, or else round Derby crowns, are also shown for young girls; beside these are the pointed Japanese crowns and the picturesque Tyrolean, with the jaunty sailor hats.— Harper's Bazar.