The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-27
ITEMS FOR THE LADIES.


Cloak sleeves are rather large and
loose.
jacquard cloth is new eIoaking ma
terial.
Black Chautily lace is again used on
bonnots.
Cleft halo brims are among the novel
ties in bonnetS.
Antique cluny is reappearing on wide
feminine collars.
Clair de lune, or moonlight gray, is
the coming color.
Cheviot tartans are among the nov
city wool fabrics.
Floral trimmings for evening dresses
are richer than ever.
Curled cocks feathers tipped with jet
are very fashionable.
| Carrick capes and Carrick .caps are
handsome novelties.
Neigeuse and bourette are the leading
| Wlnter-dress fabrics.
Slate, gray and orange are fashionable
combinations of color.
Fiat fouaces, pleatings, bows and
| TRAININGS are de rigeur.
silk stockings with lace medillions
covering the instep are $3Ja pair.
Kilt pleats In the back of polonaise
skirts are feature OF the moment.
Oriental, Torohon, Smyrna, and Ragu-
sa point are the lace OF the season.
Black Swedish gloves of undressed
Kid are fashionable for demi-toilet.
The yoke polonaise, something new,
looks best on slim, fragile sort OF lad es.
The prevailing colors for Cheviot tar
| tans are combinations OF gray, blue and
red.
Low, square-necked, Princess dresses
are The most fashionable for evening
| wear.
Early winter dresses will be more
| clinglng than eyer-lf possible Paris
| letter.
Bulgarian cloth and Schamyla cloth
are bouGetts Of Muscovite origin or sug.
gestion.
Side draperies are made of one large
box or Vatican pleat on many stylish
costumes.
listers of waterproof, lady's cloth,
and camePs hair are the popular winter
travelling garments.
Beaded trimmings almost cover even
ing dresses, making Them look as il
studded with jewels.
Bustles are no longer worn; three
| fiounces on the back breadth of under
| skirts take their place.
Cloak trimmings are large buttons,
| algra1es, Dfaids, and paBsementeries,
velvet, silk, and tringes.
New styles of underskirts have
tiounces trimmed with OPEN work EN-.
broidery in Fay al designs.
Some slanderer has started the story
that Anna Dickinson has recently re-
fused two offers of marriage.
Coaching, Breton, and Serbian Jack.
cts are simulated on many hanQsom e
polonaises and Princess dresses.
Strawberry vines, showing leaves.
fruit, and flowers, are among the Dretli.
est OF hJral garnitures for evening toi
! let's.
| A woman's thought: How men would
| be loved il they were only Iovabe; no :,
loVable women would be if they were
only Loved.
| Anna OF Austria cuffs, and large Puri
| tan collars OF sheer linen cambric are
coming in vogue, trimmed with the fill
est Valenciennes.
The great attraction at a baby-show IN
Att. ebOrO, NJ ass, this week was three
pairs of twins, born in the same montl
and all daughters of three brothers
| Waistcoat fronts and Pompadoul
squares, formed either by TRIMMINGS OF
by Lace, velvet. and silk fcnus, Whlcl
simulate themselves, are very popular
A simple deep bias flounce falling ovel
a side or box pleating, is found to be lii {
most effective skirt over which is dis
played the long, elaborately trimmel
pOloIaises OF this season.
Stalactite is q beautiful new fabric io)
evening wear. 1t has a semi-lranspar
ent ground of various shades OF color
studded with glittering frOst-like figure
i'll heavier threads shot in.
The Paris correspondent of Harpers
Barzar says That the disappearance 0
| the pOlonalse and oVerskIrC may be pre
dicted. They may be wcrn through the
coming winter, but will gradually dis
appear.
| Rich combination suits are made o
stamped velvet anu fine camelshair. Plum
color, moss green and seal brown are
tavorlte colors tor rich suits. Buckles
of old gold hold back the drapery o
| the sides.
Cloth round hats, matchIn the lotl
of the Ulster, are now faVor,e traye ling
wear. They are soft, round De rDJ
crowns, made Of many cores, the rims
stitched by the sewing machine. A little
wing makes them look less masculine.
A Detroit lady kept her little daughter
at home from school the other day OF
account of a storm, and the energetic
! female teacher sent another little glrI, d
pupil, without an umbrella, through
| the driving rain-sLorm 10 ascertain the
| cause Of absence.
| For very simple toilets, which will
bear the luxury OF neither embroidery
| nor OF passementerie, there has been
invented a simple trimming, compose j
\ Of three or five rows of stitching OF silk
in various colors along the hems, and Gil
| the cuffs and pockets, &c.
| Among Worth's latest dresses belted
basques are seen. The front is merely
u round waist with wide belt begin
ming under the arms, and the back IS o
plain position basque, with some flaL
! pleats in the seams; the corners alWay s
square; the edges piped and the ends
held down by leads just as those of rid
ing habits are.
Glass slippers have been produced in
Vienna woven OF fine flexible threads of
| glass. The novelty is quite as much in
| the effect as IN the material, Not only
lines OF colored light, different hues an 4
dis tinctly def1nable, traverse the body