The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-08
ITEMS FOR THE LADIES.

ment
Kilt skirts must be of the same length all
around.
Faille continues in favor for house
dresses
Rows of machine stitching viii trim sum
mer dresses.
Bourette muslin is a new fabric in dia-
phanous goods.
The yoke of the kilt skirt should fit the
hips like glove.
Colored pearl ornaments are on the new
spring bonnets.
New foliage for hats is made of rubber
without wire stems.
Princess dresses are remodeled for chill
dren's spring attire.
Embroidered and fringed ribbon will
trim summer fabrics.
Ladies silk ties have ends of net heavily
embroidered in colors.
Metal buttons will be profusely used on
the costume de fatigue"
Bonnet coronets are very high, and turned
very far back at the sides.
The newest buttons are japanese designs
in gold on black ground.
. New and beautiful grenadines have
stripes and flowers of velvet.
Pearl buttons are shaded to match all the
new shades of new materials.
Flower embroidery is shown as the latest
trimming for evening dresses.
Primroses and cyclamens are the pot
plants of the passing moment.
The new styles of dressing the hair are as
varied as the bonnets and hats.
Quantities of pearl beads, white and tint
ed, are used in spring millinery.
A handsome gold slipper of unique de-
sign is the latest candlestick holder,
Short Carrick capes appear on many of
the spring basques, ulsters and sacques.
Square necks, formed by long and high
shoulder straps, are seen i'll opera toilets.
AS many as five rows of pearl beads are
on the white chip bonnets just imported
Dolmans, French sacques, and Carrick
capes will all be fashionable spring wraps.
'Perle de Lyons" is one of the many new
colors this spring, and 'Guiletta'' is another.
The old color, "ashes of roses" so long
out of fashion, will be revived this sum-
mer.
Harper's Bazaar says that the short dress
for the street is at last an accomplished
fact
Mantelets will be much worn this sum-
mer; they will be seen in variety of mate
rials
The new wide collars and cuffs have a
lace frill to stand up around the neck and
wrists.
India cashmere is one Of the prettiest
materials, both for dresses and outdoor
wraps
| White ostrich feathers tipped with pearl
beads, are fresh attractions in millinery
| goods.
| Scotch cheyiot will be used for morning
wear; it is finer and more durable than
cambria.
| A new trimming for spring wraps is col
ored swan s-down, to match the color of the
material.
| Rich white satin fans with tracery of sill
yer OF gilt flowers, are novelties exhibited
at Altmans.
Flat cottage crowns are given either close
fitting or t1aring or coronet brims accord.
ing to fancy.
The correct length for the kilt skirt allows
it to escape the sidewalk two and halt
inches all around.
Spanish bonnets appear in Tuscan straws
| 1t remains TO be seen whether or not they
will become popular.
Havana brown and black are favorite
combinations of color for checked and bas-
ket woven spring bourettes.
Bourette is term applied indefinitely
| this season to all irregularly wayen all-wool,
and cotton-and-wool, dress goods.
Violets and Jacque roses are as popular
| for bouquets as when they were first made
fashionable by Rignold and Montague.
| Chinese green, Mexique blue, Mandarin
! yellow, orange, cardinal red, scarlet, GRIM
kson and clear rose, are among the popular
IlcolorS
The spring bourettes, camels hair goods,
s,ashmeres, and basket woven stuffs are
beautifully fine and light in texture and of
exquisite finish
Spanish combs and slides, Greek eirclets,
and large-headed pins of tortoise shell, sill
yer flagree, jet, gold and ivory, are used in
fashionable coiffures.
The new short costume which the Bear
hopes to make popular consists of four
pieces--the cutaway jacket, the waisteoat,
the scarf and pleated skirt with hip yoke.
The new ornaments for bonnets are in the
shape of golden feathers, gold and silver fl
agree flies, bees and beetles, with steel points
scattered over the wings and bodies and
forming the eyes.
Puffs, banGeaux, switches, coTonet braids,
chatelaine braids, Mercedes ceqaieteries,
frizettes, banged fronts, love locks, cHrls and
small ringlets, are all fashionable in the
spring styles of hair dressing.
The grounds of most of the spring bour-
cites are dark and sober but the mixed
cords and knotted threads of bright color
| shot into the fabrics give life and glow, to,
their otherwise somber or cold effect
The hair at present is dressed high on the
head around Spanish comb, narrow in
she back of the head, and dropping low ON
the nape of the neck-in short chatelaine
and one or two short curls, and banged and
waved on the forehead, or made to look
more natural than nature itself, with
Mercedes coquetrie, which is an artificial
banged and curled front.