Unique Millinery.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 325, 15 December 1888, Page 3

Unique Millinery.

XuU find, their "nay upon both hats and bonnets., intermixed not only with hops, but with intt boughs, and one charming bonnet was composed of oak leaves of the lender green winch comes when the tree is in full leaf ; this was accompanied heie and there by the pink balls a frequent parasite, growing on the loaf. (?au tiered tnile is being used for the entire bonnets in white and all colours, and this is one of the best) foundations or bouquets of {lowers. Toques, v. Inch are not easy to distinguish from stringier bonnets, are being made in antique 1 ibbon or a round shape, and comewhat higl\ Js'atural rushes and natural roods arc mingled with many bouquets, &ncl the rushes* are bent into bows -which are sin^uiaily quainc and pretty on bonnets. The) ical directoire shape with flaring biims turning up from the face, a? worn in L'aiis, is gradually being adopted. Indeed, each bonnet- is -so distinctly different, that it is not only difficult to make a choice of a bonnet, bub to da-ciibe tho many varieties. A black lace had been trimmed with laburnum and green leaves, land this graceful, falling flower shows to advantage in millinery. Tinsel flowers are used anil much watered ribbon. The Leghorn hats are crumpled up into most extraordinary shapes, bub no word painting will bring their form to tho mind's eye.