The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-15
ITEMS FOR THE LADIES.

The long slender scarf pin is now the |
fashionable brooch.
A novelty is Tyrolean nat turned up on
one side for children.
Hosiery of the color of the dress, with fine
white stripes, is worn.
White embroidery is profusely used in
trimming cotton dresses.
Ginghams are made in bourette patterns,
and have pretty borders.
Checked cotton braids, in gray or brown,
are used for linen dresses.
Linen lawns with small, colored figures
are cheap and very pretty.
Summer silk in very small checks or
hair-stripes, is for girls dresses.
Silk hosiery, embroidered by hand or ma
chine, are stylish with low shoes
If colored hosiery is worn, it should be
either the color of the dress or trimming.
Frills are just as high in favor asever, and
some ladies wear them with broad collars.
The plastron vest may be detached or but
toned on permanently, according to taste.
Costume bonnets'' are of straw the color
of the dress, or are made of the dress mate
rial.
Broad collars, edged with lace or en-
broidery, are added to nearly all the wash
suits.
White dresses for the country, during the
summer, are long polonaise over short,
round skirt.
Shirred lawn collars and cuffs are edged
with Valenciennes thread, or else very fine
torChOn lace.
Mechln lace is used great deal in trim
ming the fine organdie muslins, both white
and colorcd.
Beiges in different shades of gray and
brown make Up in charming suits for sum
mer hacking.
Stone canoes and large amethysts, or
simple topaz cut intaglio, are set in hand
some scarf pins.
Stylish bonnets are of black chip, trimmed
with white roses valenciennes lace and
| black satin ribbon.
Some of the imported linen and batiste
dresses have mantle Of the material 70 be
added for cool days.
The short, round walking skirt is in fash
ion for street wear, and common-sense
women are adopting it.
Fashion seems 10th to entirely discard
round faring hats, though by degrees she
is lessening their proportions.
Some of the cotton goods are patterned
after the high-priced wool materials, es
pecially in.cambrics and lawns.
Young ladies have rosettes of narrowly
folded satin ribbon of five or six ditferen
colors to wear with white dresses.
Canoes are shown for rich sets of jewelry
mounted with pearls, diamonds and coloret
gold settings of quaintest designs.
Bars of pale yellow gold are ornamentec
with Etruscan work in fine twisted wire, o
the word Roma, or else pendant vases
Pretty headings that answer as a finisl
for either fringe or lace, are made of moss
silk with tiny beads sewed here and there
The trimmings most used for wraps an
1 mantles are the tape fringes, known unde
: various names, such as grass and whalebon
{ fringe.
q Dark brown and dark blue cambrics an
' linens are for girls summer dresses. Hal
+ of brown or blue straw are to match thes
s fabrics.
: There is a fancy for canoes with blac
J. grounds with pale tiesh-tinted stratul
for the figure. Scarabei cut in topaz al
Ii also much liked.
s. The wide galloons are used for dresst
n still but not in high colors. Plain brown
- blues and grays in different shades are use
on costumes of the same color.
There is no particular change in wearir
: the hair. 1t is still the style to wear it higl
l. either in coil combined with finger put
: or in cluster of puifs of various sizes.
n The dress with plain round basque ar
over-skirt with side pleats is q tasteful d
l. sign that is suitable for the house and stre
10 alike, and for both plain and rich fabrics.
d An elegant and expensive toilet for a la
,e reception was made of Duchess lace oV'
pale, rose-colored silk; the train OF the la'
Skirt has silk ruffles alternating with la
RI ones
Is For the morning are white lawn dress
ri with deep pleating in the skirt, while
- drapery arranged in simple yet most grao
=" full fashion forms an over-skirt that Is eaSi
Il laundried.
lie Ostrich feathers tipped with marabo
u showered with gold, silver and pearl. a
elegant novelties. Plumes OF marabo
alone are sprinkled with all three decor
y tive additions.
The bourettes in basket-woven and bo
t., cled stuffs are made with groundwork
,t brown, gray or fawn color; stripes al
~ checks OF the knotted work is formed
as two or more bright colors
'l- Mourning fringes are almost as fancy
Is those intended for colored costumes. L
III newest have tassels Of silk placed about t'
e e or three inches apart, and have for bao
OF ground crimped fringe of alpaca wool.
DO Pretty materials, called seaside olot
d. Newport suiling, and soft linen and VIC
" goods, called American cloth, are all han
L. some enough in style and quality for tra
oe cling or morning toilets at summer resor
De The long scarfs, both in black and viii
,rs are worn as much as ever; the black kl
er favor for the street. while the white or
:. are worn with house toilette, and may
~ arranged with very pretty effect as ilch'
on A new and oldstyle, suggesting hgh-ba
)st combs and ''leg-of-mutton" sleeves, has
nd wide collar OF pleated muslin, square in
Nv back and pointed in front, edged with Fl
ge torchon lace, the lace forming Till abe
Ter the neck.