LONDON AND PARIS FASHIONS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 13, 26 March 1892, Page 308

LONDON AND PARIS FASHIONS.

BONNETS FOR ELDERLY LADIES. There has been lately a decided move in favour of Marie Stuart bonnets ; some of the most stylish dressers in Paris started the revival of this always becoming style of headgear some weeks ago, and it seems likely to becomes popular restoration of a fashion that has, since the ill-fated Queen o’ Scots first made it one, constantly been revived though lost to sight between whiles. Without doubt this is a very becoming form of head dress, forming a species of frame to the face, broadening at the top of the head, and so keeping the face within symmetrical limits, which certainly cannot be said of some of the foolish little top-knots yclept bonnets now, which have a happy knack of exaggerating, and showing up to the utmost

any unkindness of nature in the matter of plain features, a very thin face, or one too liberally supplied with physical cheek. Elderly ladies cannot make a happier choice than a Marie Stuart. The illustration gives an example in a velvet-covered shape. Very deep grenat is the colour chosen : the brim is edged with black cut jet beads which continue entirely round the back as well as the front of the shape, a group of bows of the velvet, and black ostrich tips finish the back, and the strings are of the grenat velvet, fastened after tying, by a tasteful little brooch. I do not think I can exaggerate how much better, more dignified, and really less faded a face past youth will look in such a bonnet as this, than in one of the fly-a way little horrors generally, or very often, crowning the indiscreet heads of ladies in the afternoon and evening of life.