| Show IWOMEN OF FASHION Lizards Spiders Serpents and Lobsters for Ornaments NEW BONNETS ABE CROWNLESS Picturesque Flower Hats Flower Dresses and flower Trimmings Gorgeous Jewels Worn by the Langtry HEW YORK April 16 1SO1Special correspondence cor-respondence of THE HEIULD The fashionable fash-ionable woman of today does not permit herself to be prejudiced in taste by the disagreeable dis-agreeable experience which one of her foremothers fore-mothers had with a serpent long years ago Serpents have no terrors for her even though she has always been aware that because be-cause of one of them the whole race of women came to grief She knows that the Egyptian Cleopatra is the rageon the stage and ofl Things that the Egyptian Cleopatra had ornaments which she wore and styles which she affected are the wonder won-der and admiration of thovojld Therefore so thinks the fashionable woman it behooves be-hooves the lady of taste to cast aside prejudices pre-judices throw squeamishness to the winds ana boldly clasp to her head her heart her bosom and her waist the reptiles which theE the-E yptian Cleopatra loved and cherished as pets and ornaments Around the head of the fashionable woman of today a serpent is coiled She calls the coil a bonnet The tail of the serpent ser-pent is near what would be in a Christian hat the centre of the crown j then around itself after the fashion of the Laodicon pictures coils the serpent in halfadozen glittering rounds The head of the beast forms an ornament which nestles down cosily among the front frizzes curls and bangs of the daring wearer REPTILE ORNAMENTS The material of which this fearful and wonderful head gear is composed is tinsel evidently from its light weight but in appearance evidenty ap-pearance it exactly resembles dull gold striped in the most approved serpentine style No other ornaments aro upon the hat except tho glittering tffiby eyes and the shining skin with which the serpent is naturally na-turally provided Upon the head of a fair blonde this is really very becomingalthough the description sounds as if it might be somewhat gruesome and awful The serpentine fad doesnot end here Indeed In-deed it only begins here For the hat is but the beginning of the end of what fashionable fash-ionable woman can achieve when she steps out to do a thing in its entirety Around her neck she clasps a necklace of greenish gold of a deeper hue than the hat and less brilliant This dullness and lack of brilliancy aucy in necklaces was taught by Bernhardt and preached by her because she found that it tended to bring out the natural whiteness of the skin The necklace similates a serpent ser-pent and is clasped by a twist of the end of the serpentine tail over tho wicked head Next comes the jewelry which is often a miscellaneous collection of the animal kingdom king-dom Frogs lizardsdragonsspidersbirds lobsters and snakes are seen in splendid and terrifying profusion Frogs fasten the front of the jacket Not braided frogs this time but metal creatures almost as largo as life and sometimes even more natural Lizards arc seen wandering aimlessly up the rovers of a jacket and are even observed sewn upon the collars of a dress and headed directly towards the fair wearers mouth A great dragon stands guard over the shopping bag which hangs at her side upholding up-holding the chain in its mouth On the back are beetles lady bugs and butterflies Spiders fasten the cuffs of the pretty tailormade costume which has until this season been so simplechasteneat and trim in appearance But this too along with all the other styles has fallen the victim to the Oriental craze Birds perch with glistening wingsupon the muf the bonnet and the fan i one carried and lobster has even been seen placed full upon the neck of a cloth coat coatPerhaps the Egyptian fever has entered into the brain of the fashion writers Perhaps Per-haps they have seen the Cleopatra of Bern hardt of Langtry of Mrs Potter and of Davenport And perhaps they have learned t love these bizarre effects on account of the undue influence exerted by these tasteful taste-ful and talented women Perhaps it is because be-cause the fashion writers are generally will ing to advocate anything which is new But whatever may be the reason of the partiality it is certain that the fashion writers one and all aro praising the pretty effects produced by the metal and tinselthe glitter and glare the shine and the sheen of this the jewel and animal season Langtry is showing to a few of her most particular friends the gorgeous jewels she wore as Cleopatra A certain quaint Egyp tain necklace cost 5000 and weighed three pounds jianaaozen turquoise rings which she is exhibiting cost 300 each and the loose jewels which were scattered over her costumes were estimated at 4500 None of the new French bonnets are provided pro-vided with crowns They consist merely of brims trimmed with flowers and other ornaments The style is a pretty one but unfortunately many ot its devotees catch cold and are afflicted with neuralgia and even gout in the head A pretty hat is hem letshaped without a crown It is made en 7 I bZ i5e S I s ah1R FLOWER DRESS tirely of gold passementerie A knot ot gold braid upon the front is the only trimming trim-ming on it Black velvet strings starting from the back are fastened under the chin The hat is made somewhat small for tho head and must be perched upon it in the style that Is becoming only to fair women with piquant faces Gold braid studded with mark gems forms the basis for many hats and bonnets Very wide brimmed hats trimmed with very large bows of ribbom aro worn for early spring by young womenand girls A black chip hat may have a great bow of r nnn fnod rHi rH < h t upon the front or upon the back of the crown The hats themselves need not be of fancy straw nor beads nor yet of gold braid in order to be worn in this manner The plainest straw even though it be somewhat some-what coarse looks well adorned with a huge bow of very good ribbon Wedding bonnets may be made of pearls or pearl beads and trimmed with white ostrich tips These bonnets belong to the class that are crownless and a very pretty effect produced as the puffings and coils of hair project above the opening The effect is almost as i a band of pearls were clasped around the coiffure and ornamented with the customary court presentation bunch of ostrich tips The fashion for spring flowers demands that they shall be selected to match the hat trimmings I the hat is trimmed with green great bunches of green leaves of various hues secured by combining smilax lilac leaves and rose leaves is fastened in the front of the bodice and upon the muff Heather is fastened in the front of the jacket Heather is pinned upon the muff and the sweetest hat facing in the world is made by lining the hat brim with sprays of heather Violets aro less worn now than during Lent Brighter flowers have come to tako I I their places The hats are gayer and so the corsage and muff bouquets must be attuned at-tuned to the gayety of tho head gear Blue is probably the most fashionable and the most sought for color To wear with the blue costume and blue hats there may be found lovely bluo hyacinths great bunches of delicate forcetmenots and English blueies To wear with the popular pop-ular pink shades there are hosts of fruit blossoms roses azalias and flowers of the pinkish tinge With the tan and yellow shades co crocuses lonnuils daffodils and the exquisite varieties of yellow roses Is it a waste of time and money to give careful and anxious thought to ones flower trimmings It can hardly be considered so surely when all will agree that flowers form a part of the ageo of every well dressed woman Why should she not then put time and thought into a consideration ol how she will be dressed florally for has she not learned that the smallest details of the toilet go towards making the harmonious harmon-ious whole which she aims to secure I I 4t SPRING BEAUTIES Listen to the description of just one moro hat I was so pretty that the wearer elicited elic-ited many a smile of admiration as she wore it through the park one bright spring day I was of laceblack lacs trimmed with pink heather and mignonette Ribbon bows and ends stood upright like blades of grass The brim was lined with pink heather Flower dresses are novelties seen in ball rooms and at every elegant dinner parties The foundation of the dress and the dress skirt and waist is of some light material usually tulle sometimes tho moro expel sive chiffon mousselino do soie or crepe do chine The dress is made plainly Strings of white ribbon if the material selected be white are then run longitudinally on the skirt On the ribbon are fastened sprays of flowers until the whole skirt resembles a flower garden Heather is a favorite flower for these dresses yet roses violets I pansies arbatus and anemones all have their share of favoritism The rows of ribbon are about four inches apart so a to leave the foundation of tho skirt visible and the sprays of flowers do not quite overlap over-lap Across 0 ball room the effect is of a deli cate material richly brocaded Near by the flowers set forth upon tho goods giving an effect artistic and charming |
