The Archive · 1899

Hats and Bonnets

have undergone a marked change this season. 'Tulle strings tied under the chin are quite de rigueur for bonnets, while on'both hats, bonnets, and toques, wings and tulle' and silk rosettes largely take the place of flowers. Some I saw so trimmed at Virot's are extremely artistic, especially those made up of a very blue mauve. The wings, silk, tulle, and straw, are all shot and shaded, either with pink or green. The becoming velvet toque, turned up on one side, which found so much favour during the winter, holds its own still in. straw and tulle. There is a change in veils, too. They have been for some time in a decidedly finer material, and rather shorter, that is to say not covering the chin, and coloured veils are no longer seen, There. is no doubt that millinery is becoming more than ever an art in Paris. London recognises this, and since it is so much the fashion of Indies of gentle birth to take up millinery in England, many of them come over here to study it just as they do to attend the art schools.

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