The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-18
ITEMS FOR THE LADIES.

! Mother Hubbard is the name of one of
the latest bonnets.
Black bonnets are superseded to great
extent by white ones.
Velvet pocket bags have a monogram in
silver upon the outside.
The cottage shape bonnet seems to be the
favOrite for straw and chip.
A new design for a pin is "a bundle Of
wood with hatchet across it.
Gold thread is a novelty used for stitching
some of the new short dresses.
Wide belts fastened with buckles are seen
on the latest imported costumes.
Lovely neckties come in cream-whte silk,
worked with chenille of the same hue.
Kilt skirts and cutaway jackets should
not be worn by stout or elderly ladies'
Amber and rainbow beads are mingled
with the richest fringes and passementeries.
Spanish lace scarfs, black, white, and beige
colored, are having run OF popular favor
"ModeSty, rare, delicate and lasting" is
the name and the claim of new perfume
Lator observations confirm the statement
that gray will be a tayorite color next sum
mer
Pretty MANILA hats for little girls are seen
with wreath of flowers painted on the
brim.
When low shoes are worn out of DOORS
the stockings must be dark or to ma ch the
urcsS.
Roman pearl beads and mother-of-pearl
ornaments are taking the lead for bonnet or
naments.
D.. Il Il
trimmed with brown and beige fringes, are
much worn.
The ulster of the elegante this summer is
of India pongee, with Carrick capes or car
dinal collars.
The fashionable novel at the moment in
Paris is Nine. Angelo Dussauds jacques
de Trevonnes."
The deep collars and cuffs of the moment
are the Anne of Austria La Nalliere,"
and "Richelieu."
All sorts Of worsted, silk, embroidered,
brocaded and damassee gallo0ns are used
for heading fringes
Parasols are more 'dressy' than formerly,
and are trimmed with full frills Of French
lace and lined with white silk.
Dress linens. newly introduced, are in
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there are bands OF embroidery.
The fashionables of the Faubourg st. Ger
main, Paris, were mourning for Pope Plus
TX until Easter Sunday.
Pleats down the front of Princess dresses
and kilt pleats in the back are seen daily ON
Fifth avenue and Broadway.
Solid colored stockings, clocked on the
sides, are worn by little girls and misses, III
colors to match their dresses.
1t is fashionable to put two fringes Of diff
ferent colors or two shades Of the same color
on beige or mastic-gray dresses.
The cutaway jacket, long waistcoat, and
kilt skirt, with scarf drapery around the
| hips, is the costume OF the moment.
Plain princess polonaises are worn over
fan-trained skirts, the train being looped to
escape the sidewalk when worn IN the
street.
The favorite flowers for painting on the
brims of little girls MANILA hats are pop
pies forget-me-nots, bluets, and trailing
arbutus.
Fancy buttons, with bank notes, postage
stamps, &c, on them, i'll enamel, are very
fashionable in Paris as trimmings for
dresses.
i English bareges are again introduced and
combine very beautifully with silk, and the
same use is made OF plain heavy grapes III
light colors,
Knee breeches, single-breasted cutaway
coats and skirts killed in the back, but
scant in front, are worn by boys under six
years of age
The new linen batistes are extremely deli
cate and in the most attractive color, and
are made up like grenadines and worn Oh
dressy occasions.
Gray linen lawns, with white polka dots
or small japanese figures, or barred OF
striped with color, are i'll demand for suits
for young ladies and misses i'll their teens.
Beige coored chip bonnets, trimmed en-
tirely with beige ribbons and ostrich tips
and faced with black or dark colored velvet
are affected by the most fashionable women
Some very handsome princess polonaiseS
are made with band of beaded lace, insert
ed down every seam, the trimmings at the
bottom being Of lace and beaded fringe tC
match.
Pleatings and fiutings of black Frencl
lace, mingled with flat loops OF narrow black
gros grain ribbon, are the most elegan
trimmings for black mantillas, mantels anC
dolmans.
Flower bretelles and berthas are much
worn on ball toilets. These and all kinds
OF flower garnitures are seen at the Partisan
Flower Company's, i'll Fourteenth street
New York.
The old-fashioned indigo blue Englist
calicoes, with bright orange figures, are tlseC
for young ladies suits, made up with {
white vest and blue buttons to match the
tdresS material
The princesse dresses worn by girls o.
twelve years, and the rlniest little ones also
are no longer plain, nor are they trimmed
with scarfs. The fancy this season is to ado
Jacket fronts to them.
A leading feature of the flower fashion
this season is the willow calkin, little
fluffy feathery looking blossom of those
early trees-nearly every wreath and spray
is made up with them.
Minerva, in pull-back dress, with whip
lash worthy of Western "bullwhacker'
attached to her spear and occupying the
front platform of a chariot is a New York
silversmiths idea of the goddess.
Printed silks which have black grounds
with pinhead dots, stripes, small sprays Of
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