1907 #47 Bonnet-Cap -- Capote-Beguin Here is the model preferred for the winter, because it protects the ears well. It is not difficult to make. One will preferably cut out the capote [bonnet] from a piece of velvet. Failing this, one can be content with silk or with wool. The shade chestnut is strong in fashion and at the same time very becoming; we will be able to thus choose it. This bonnet is composed of three pieces: the fond [back], the capote itself and the passé de devant [front brim]. After having cut out pattern #1 (capote beguin pour Bleuette), one cuts out the passé [brim], one folds this in two and one sews one of its edges onto the rounded edge of the capote, that while making fall together the letters C and D (fig.2). Since the space lying between these two letters is larger on the capote than on the passé, one gathers the first to bring it back to the measurement of the second. One makes this seam on the wrong side, placing the two fabrics right side against right side; one turns over then the passé and it hides the seam with the fold back that is fixed with a hemstitching. This made, one finely hems the edges of the capote on the sides of C to A and of D to B. Then one sews the capote to the fond [back] by gathering the fabric, so that the straight part, lying between A and B on the capote, is added to the short part of the fond carrying the same letters. The interior edge of the fond is folded up and hemmed (fig.3). [Editor: I believe the pattern of the fond is marked incorrectly. The curved edge of the fond should be sewn to the gathered straight edge of the capote, and the straight edge of the fond should be turned up and hemmed.] There does not remain any more than to gather the top at the two places indicated, then to apply, on the second row of gathers, a small ribbon of about one centimeter’s width, pink, pale blue or red, or even chestnut, if you want the bonnet to have a more simple appearance. This ribbon will form also the ties and the rosettes. One will be able to line the bonnet in pink, white, or pale blue silk, but only after the assembly and the gathering. Translation copyright 2010 Deirdre Gawne. Not for sale. www.dressingbleuette.com