Some Parisian Millinery.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3099, 15 September 1899, Page 6

Some Parisian Millinery.

In the annals, of millinery artiflcfal flowers have never before been so much employed, and every hat or bonnet that "respects" itself nowaS^ys blossoms forth into vivid colouring and mamifold shades of bloom. Nature has no further secrets for the Parisian flowermaker, and from the frail and fantastic orchid to. the common or garden daisy,, the brilliant army of Flora is most refills tical ly and accurately imitated. Hats are (says? a London fashion writer) in many instances entirely built of flowers. One of the kind, and most becoming to its young wearer, has a plateau crown of Parma violets; the brim, composed of violet leaves, forms a sort of niching all round, and much higher at the back than sides and front.' On the left side a high aigrette of rich crimson rosebuds and leaves rises gracefully. Another hat. of purple paille satinee, is trimmed with a series of small bunches of violets, with their leaves massed together, and forming a garland around the crown. At the side are high-standing loops of pansycoloured tulle, lightly wired. Yet another pretty hat, of willow-green straw, had a very narrow edging of black velvet around the brim ; its trimming consisted of tulle and mirror velvet of different _=rh a.ti._._ of ereen, w"hile a. hijgli panache of wild oats, also green, completed a most tasteful and charming up-to-date chapeau. A distinguishedlooking little bonnet, also of willowgreen straw, owns a orinkled brim, trimmed on either side with black velvet roses ; in the central crinkle, if I may be pardoned this rather absurd phraseology, coyly nestles one large white fullblown rose, its natural foliage and a single pink-tipped bud furnishing the desired and still popuiar aigrette effect. Prom behind this rose a Paradise plume of similar green to the straw of the bonnet sweeps gracefully over towards the left, while strings of blaok velvet tie the bonnet on. Cerise and crimson straws, some trimmed with various shades of their own brilliant colour, more often, and much more tastefully, with black taffetas, are also amongst the smartest things in new spring headgeair, while one of the most attractive articles in the way of hats appeared at the Concours Hippique a few afternoons ago. It was of deep corn-coloured manilla straw, edged very narrowly with black velvet, anrl boldly raised at the back in the shape of a fan. The crown was trimmed with velvet ranunculi, in various vivid shades of crimson and scarlet, attenuated, or rather toned down, hy puffings and trimmings of fine black tulle. At the back was a huge bow of tulle, caught up ln the centre by a rhlnestone ornament, forming a design of ornamental latticework.