The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-03
FOR THE LADIES.
Careful Observations of the Spring
Styles,
MINOR FASHION NOTES.


Capes in the back OF bonnets grow in
favor.
Skirts are still made very plain around
the hips.
The most fashionable straws are in
old gold color.
Silk is used to excess in the compost
tion of spring toilets.
Sleeves Of street and morning dresses
are tight to the wrist.
The balayeuse or sweeper is de rigeur
with all dressy toilets.
Barred and knotted fabrics are the ia.
vorite spring novelties.
Toilets of fancy wooden fabrics and
silk are almost de rigeur.
Tilleul and mandarin continue to be
the leading shades of color.
Japanese chamber robes are the fash
| ion OF the passing moment.
| Pockets are worn flatter, more in front,
and higher up on The skirt.
| Velvet and velvet ribbons are used tor
trimming fine Tuscan straws.
| Large and small buckles are both
worn ON slippers and garden shoes.
| Square necks worn over chemiset ties
will be In high fashion this summer.
| Bonnets formed entirely of flowers ar e
shown for opera and reception wear.
Louis XIII, Louis xiv, Louis XIV
Walstcoats are worn win rlcn toilets.
Scarls draped over the hips for tunics
OF princess dresses are very fashlona-
Bile.
Pain, checked and striped fabrics are
as popular as ever Tor chiIdrePs cloth
ing.
Habit or cut-a-way coats are worn
over the Louis XIV waistcoats or dressy
suits.
Diagonal tastenings and trimmings
appear on nearly all the new over
dresses.
Square box toes and French heels are
nov out OF date, but they are not dt
rigeuer.
Dolmans are giving way to mante.
let's, light sacques, scarls, and novelty
slaWls.
Turkish and Persian colors and ef
fects are sought Tor in the new spring
fabrics.
The hair is still dressed high on the
head and with dropping braids or curls
in the back.
Bunting suits are trimmed with knife
pleatlngs bound with some bright con.
!: trasting color.
, Many little butterfly bows are set OF
one-siued up the front OF some ol th,
newest costumes.
A novelty in hats is the alternating o
gilt braid with the bralds oil black OF
white straw or chlp.
The Normandy and cottage prevail
; among spring bonnets, but all sorts o
shapes are fashionable.
Breton braids and strings of Bretol
buttons will convert almost any plair
suit into Breton costume.
Gossamer fax and gossamer Shetland
! shawls are charming novelties Tor sea
side and watering place wear.
q Sleeves of dressy reception and even
ing toilets are la DucheSSe-that is, no
j, coming down lurtuer Lndu Jne elbow.
1 "Scarecrow" Is the name given som
oflhe new yellow straw Donnets, whicl
/; are trimmed with yellow and tilleuI.
! The large muslin and lace collars an
, oyersleeves that are coming in 1ashio
- Will not be worn except by the eX
. elusive classes.
Watch-spring steels are used in tn
n place OF whaleboues for the waists G
r dresses. They give more becoming Il
than Whalebone, and define the figure t
perfection.
70 The leading colors in velvet bonne
ribbons are Vesuvius Ga lively red
Mandarin, old gold, maze, buttercul
70 Holoein and olive green, UIlleuI, moon
= llght blue, rose, pink and coral.
u Some of the new bonnets of old gol
color IN straw, trimmed with tilleul an
lemOn-c0lored ribbons and flowers, j
which yellow predOminates, are 50 ugl
81 they give one blow in the eye.
10 Navy blue, seal and bronze are the fs
no vorIte colors OF the intermediate season
30 relieved when made up In costume
with Iilleul, sllver-gray, old gold, straw
sulphur, pale blue aud cream colors.
20 Large caterpillar ruchings, an eight
~ of a yard wide, formed of several row
81 OF irayed out bands OF silk are used a
= The bottom trimmings on the skirts
W some oil tue richest imported toilets.
10 All sorts OF bonnet strings are wor,
81 such AS lace, embroidered camDr
trimmed with lace, ribbon, crepe llss
edged with knife pleatlugs If The sam
and scarIs OF trallle trayed out a
around.
Saratoga and Algerine shawls in del
IS cate snaues OF color, win satin and 81
% stripes IN rIcn shades OF blue, pink, Vt
93 low, black and white, are shown
81 olewarps ana other leading dry goot
W houses.
~ Japanese chamber robes are made
, ricu DrOcaded silks, in various cnl0r
~ with large fiowers, birds, and groLe, a.
- designs, Win silver and gulI thl eal
y shot into The fabric. They are trim IN,
with gallOOns to match.
p New fashions i'll lingerie are shown
~ leading houses. There is return
" wrought muslin cbemisettes, large mu
+ I'm and cambrIc collars, trimmed WI
y, insertion ana ValencIennes anu Nj alin
:" and Torcnon laces, ana cuffs to mate
~ which are wOIn over the sleeve, IL
within IT..
is 10 render the present style of cingi
draperles less SuuCOmtOrtaDIe in sumne
h. rSanutacLurers have taxed the lngenui
~ the production OF shapely and elega
A. wire panier skirt, with sweeper aLtache
which is in great demand by ladies W
V wish lor flowing outlines and gracei
sweep t0 their costumes and prince
7 robes and polOnalses.
Some of the lace bonnet strings a
II, formed into "a tchu after crossing ON I