Show OLD WE TIME STYLES tha the fashions in ladies hats in richmond after th war A southern lady in a diary which she kept throughout tho the civil war tells of a bonnet which she rho made and an which was regarded as quite stunning the author of dixie after the war quotes from the diary as follows fol lowa we had bad been wearing coal scuttle bonnets of plaited straw adraw trimmed with corn shuck rovetta ros attea I 1 made fifteen ono one spring acquired a bl fine line name as a milliner and was paid for my work I 1 recall retail one that was quite stunning I 1 got hold bold of a bit of ot much worn white ribbon and dyed it an exquisite shade of green with a tea made of coffee berries coffee berries dye a lovely green you might remember that it you are ever over in ju nar war and blockaded when the northern ladles indies appeared on the streets of richmond they did not seem to have on any bonnets at all they wore tiny three cornered aff affairs alra tied on with narrow strings and all their hair showing in the back we thought them the most absurd and trifling things but wo we made haste baste to get isome the yankees introduced some new in other things thang s besides clothes that I 1 remember vividly one being canned fruit I 1 hannever had never soen any canned fruit before the yankees came pleasant innovations in food were liko to leave lasting impressions on one who had bad been living on next to nothing for an indefinite period 1 |