A REVOLUTION IN BONNETS.

Evening Star, Issue 3733, 9 February 1875, Page 3

A REVOLUTION IN BONNETS.

The Paris correspondent of the ‘ Warehouseman and Draper’s Journal’ writes The idea is to have real bonnets once more—bonnets once more —bonnets with brims, crowns, strings, and perhaps curtains. It sounds strange enough. No woman who had any pretensions to youth has worn strings for three seasons past, and curtains have been for long consigned to oblivion. Yet we are promised both for next winter. This bonnet, which will be decidedly large, will, however, not shade the face at all—fashion nowadays only goes gradually from one extreme to another—but will be perched up on the back of the head somewhat as the first bonnets were under the Directorie, before they became the beauty-concealing cottage bonnets of our grandmothers ; this extensive headgear to be attached under the chin by short strings that form bows with cravat-like ends.

“ Who is that foreign lady with the low-cut dress ?” asked a bystander at a party. “ That is Mrs Chemisoff—a Russian lady.” Only a lodger.—A man being in bed in a great storm, and told that the house would tumble over his head, made answer “What cave I for the house ? T am only a lodger !”