NEXT WINTER’S BONNETS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 236, 6 January 1875, Page 3

NEXT WINTER’S BONNETS.

Miss Lucy Hooper, an authority on ladies’ dress, writes from Paris as follows : I hav*e just come, early in the season as it is, from inspecting a large number of winter bonnets prepared for pattern hats for the ensuing season. The shapes remain pretty much as they were last spring, though a more decided attempt is to be made during the coming season to revive the old-fashion gipsy shape, so popular some seventeen years ago, but, with that exception, the bonnets will mostly retain their former styles, being very nearly round hats, and being still worn without strings. For young girls and youthful matrons a regular shepherdess hat in velvet, the brim turned up at the left side and confined with a bouquet of roses, will be the most graceful and becoming of innovations. Velvet, in dark, rich shades, is to be the material most in vogue, mingled with satin of the same colors, and flowers will largely supersede feathers as a trimming, though the latter will still be used to some extent. The most fashionable feathers will be cock’s plumes and natural ostrich feathers. The fashionable colors are still the deadmixed tints, mouse-grey, bronze-green, marineblue, a rich reddish shade of plum colour, ai d a new and beautiful and very dark shade of brown called “ leutre.” Then there is a very novel and singular shade of dull, bluish crimson, called “ pochard ” or sot colour, and also “ retour de Suresnes.”