Show KEDFERNS LATEST IDEAS Newest Hats That Delight the Eye and Deplete the Puree NEW YOUK Feb 19 1891 ISISpecial correspondence cor-respondence of THE HERALDJ As I passed down the street I saw on every side signs that the season of flowers had been Here were girls bearing baskets of sweetsmell ing violets and there a street stall with its I fragrant load of humble primroses Walter Besant As we walked tho Avenue and Broadway where novelty seekers most do congregate It is to find the florists windows quite eclipsed outblossomed if one may use the phrase bythe display at the fashionable milliners For early as it is the spring millinery are nevertheless already on hand to be studied and admired and to make womankind collectively yearn for the balmy days to come when she may cast aside felt and feathers of the present and shine forth a radiant butterfly in straw and lace and flowers galore a personification at least as far as the bonnet goes of spring itself From the indications of these first samples it is evident that the succeeding season will be one of flowers This is not surprising for no more appropriate trimming can be 1 found and the flowers are such perfect imitations of nature that it is impossible to accord them too much praise Tho most springlike of these artificial blossoms are the ever charmine violets the graceful lilac sprays and those hardy spring heralds the crocus and daffodil And they will all be used in profusion and in combination with lace and fancy straw braids The following fol-lowing artistic sketches are from the large millinery department of Redferns New I York establishment I 1L S j The charming demoiselle whoso fan forms a background for a pretty head wears a dress bonnet of gold tinsel ribbon brocaded with silver and wreathed with a chaplet of shaded green leaves and finished with clusters of for e menots Below this is a girls hat of fine English straw straight brimmed and with a low square crown Brown ribbons and a cluster of daffodils form the garniture t iD p J frv8 In this other sketch the Redfern artist has quite distinguished himself The large hat at the top is trimmed with snow balls and Is in piquante contrast to the tiny toque beneath which has a brim of velvet and a crown of passementerie Shaded blue plumes and darker velvet adorns the last one II I I |