The Headgear of Queens and Princesses.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 414, 26 October 1889, Page 6

The Headgear of Queens and Princesses.

A well-known Parisian modiste gives some interesting detail* with regard to tho hats and bonnets which she makes for some of her Royal customers :—: —

Tue Oklkans Hat. I number a great many Hoyal ladie 3 auaong my customers. For instance, I have furnished for years past the nata und bonnets worn by the Princesses of the Orleans family. The Comtesse do Paris dress s in a severe and simple style, and always wears round hats — never bonnets. Her hats are small and of a special variety, of the toque shape, which is prepared purposely for her. Dark brown and black aro her favouiite colours. l£or married daughter, the Du cheese do Braganza, shares her mother's simplicity of taste. The Duchesse do(Jhartre*,the sisterin- law of the Comtesse do Paris, is one of the most elegant Royal ladies in Europe. She is famed for her graceful carriage, and it has been said of htr that to see hei git down was in Itself a lesson in grace. Her usual style of head-gear is the capote bonnet in black and gold, or cream-white, or red, all which colours or combination of colour are very becoming to her. Her daughter, the Prince« 4 Wuldomar of Denmark, prefers a style of heudgear which is gotten up especially for her. It is of the toque shape in front, curving down at the back in something of the capote form. She likes straight high trimming set in front of the crown, never wears string?, and particularly dislikes hanging ends, whether of ribbon or laco. Ai sho has a fresh fair complexion she delights in delicate shades ot pale blue or of silver grey.

Thk Ckakika's Bonnets. The Empress of Russia ha% been for aom 0 years past one of my customers. Like he 1 ' bister, the Princoss of Wales, she never wears high-crowned or large-brimmed hats, which, indeed, would be unauited to the delicate type of her beauty. Everything must be small and neat and compact, whether hat or bonnet. Her favourite colours aro pale blue and mauro, and several of the new shades of green, such as Nilereed and varnish green, which last is the newest colour as yet ptoduccd this season. Her sister-in-law, the Grand Duchess Vladimir, who was a Ptinceos of the Ducal House of Mecklcnburg-Schwerin, is ona of the Royal leaders of European fashion, being extremely stylish in manner and possessing inlinito.tasto in drees.

A Nkw Idea I have juafc canied out foi her an idea of her own, which was to combine in a toque a crou n in real sealskin with trimming of white silk gauze. This union of fur and gauze, of dark brown and whito, was daring and novel, and perfectly successful. She delights in wearing flowers, her favourites boing chrysanthemums and violet?. The wife of her second brother, formerly the Princess Elizabeth of Saxe-\Veimar r also has much taste in dreis. Just at present sho is restricted to black and white, as her husband is .cousin of the Emperor of Germany, and she is still in slight mourning for the Elnperdr Frederick. Sho wears capotes with clo.«e, borderings and string?, the bow under the throat being very becoming to her. * When she was married Hi roc years ago, I furnished tho bonnets and hats of her trousseau, comprising some 30 in all. Every eoituine was mado with a hat to match, and every carriage or reception or theatre^ dress had the, bonnet to correspond in materials as well ac in coioui^