3-028-334 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Paris fashions for June: head-dresses, 1870. '1. Chapeau Beret Louis XV., in blue faye, trimmed with a large ostrich feather, turned round the top of the chapeau. Blue faye string fastened with a hook beneath the chin. 2. White straw chapeau, trimmed on the top of the low crown with a bunch of ribbons and a blue flower. The brim is slightly turned up behind and before, and lined inside with blue silk...3. Chapeau Frou-frou, in black lace. The front is ornamented by a lace crête and a black satin bow. A red camellia is worn on the right side, and the rose taffeta strings...are fastened at some distance from the chin. 4. Chapeau 1830, in grey faye and feathers, bordered with white blonde. 5. Round straw chapeau, trimmed at the top with maroon satin and rosebuds. This chapeau is fastened by elastic beneath the chignon, the strings being allowed to fall down the back. 6. Chapeau Ondine, in blue Chinese crape, bordered with blue satin and surmounted by a mass of small ostrich feathers. 7. Chapeau Pomponnette, in rose-coloured tulle, trimmed with roses and small bows of ribbon...8. Chapeau Marguerite, in white straw, trimmed with black velvet. A large daisy is placed on the top of the crown, and a branch of small daisies falls over the chignon'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.