Choosing Your Best Buds

Choosing Your Best Buds

Have you heard you can't mix flower types on a bonnet?  I have and from reputable sources too.  In my collection of extant bonnets, I have a bonnet with only one kind of flowers.  However, I also have bonnets with mixed wreaths of flowers.  Unfortunately, the vast majority of extant bonnets no longer have flowers because flowers were removed and reused. One great thing about mid 19th century research is in addition to extant garments, we have pictures. We can see real women wearing garments.  Furthermore, with modern technology, we can enlarge pictures and focus in on different details. I have a lot of pictures of women in bonnets. In fact,  I need all the pictures of women in bonnets.  I can't just look at them on the internet.  I have to buy them.  If I have them in my hot little hands, I can scan or photograph them and zoom in on the parts I want to view.  In looking at millinery flowers, I find some women who repeat the same flower.  However, the vast majority of the photographs in my collection show mixed wreaths of flowers.  So go ahead.  Mix them up.  They did.