Unique Millinery.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 327, 22 December 1888, Page 6

Unique Millinery.

ISuis find bheir way upon botli hat* and oo r .\nets, intermixed not only with hops, j hv,i wilb nut boughs, and one charming bounet composed of oak leaves of thft tender screen which comes when the tree is in full leaf ; this was accompanied here and there by the pink balls a frequent parasite, growing 1 on bhe leaf. Gauifered tulle is being used for the entire bonnets in whit* and all colours, and .this is one of the best foundations or bouquets of flowers. Toques, which are nob easy to distinguish , from stringless bonnets, are being made in antique ribbon of a round shape, and somewhat high. Natural rushes and natural reeds are mingled with many bouquets,, and r tho rushes' are bent into bovvs which are singularly quaint and pretty on bonnets* The real directoire shape with flaring, brims burning up trora the face, as worn in Paris, i& gradually being adopted. Indeed, each bonnet is so distinctly different that it is not only difficult to make a choice of a bonnet, but to desciibe the many varieties. A black lace had been trimmed with laburnum and green leaves, »md this graceful, falling flower shows to advantage in millinery. Tinsel flowers ar« used and much, watered ribbon. The Leghorn hats are crumpled up into most extraordinary shapes, bub no word painting: will bring their form to the mind's eye.