The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-20
ITEMS FOR TEEE LADIES.
Short kilt skirts do not take.

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Short kilt skirts do not take.
Olive and blue are worn together.
Square trains are coming in vogue.
Bonnaz laces are pretty novelties.
Flowers are not used on English round
hats.
The "Cesnola" jewelry is very fashion
able
Bell top parasols and umbrellas are again
i'll vogue
French ginghams are woven to form bou-
rette effects.
Green and mastic is fashionable combi-
nation Of color.
Jacqueminot red is the newest shade of
this popular color.
Long lace mits are more worn for evening
toilet than kid gloves,
The Pompadour chemise is the fancy of
the moment i'll lingerie
Beige colored gauze is the popular yelling
material for round hats.
Short ostrich tips in punches are preferred
to long sweeping plumes.
Pure white is more fashionable at the mo-
ment than cream or ivory.
Plated waists are both stylish and appro-
pirate for all cotton goods.
Flower bonnets for summer wear are
made Of small flowers only.
Black and white lace over black satin is
fashionable for elderly ladies,
Princesse lingerie is absolutely necessary
with the present style of dress.
jacquard linens in gay-colored stripes are
shown for making furniture covers.
Cutaway jackets and waistcoats of silk,
terry cloth, or bourette are very stylish.
Square-necked sleeveless chemises, with
extra long shoulder straps are de rigeuer.
The Anne Boleyn, Holbein and Marie
Stuart diadem, are among bonnet novelties.
Bead ornaments require great taste and
careful management in their use to look
we'll.
For summer waterproof there are thin
English twills that come i'll grays and fawn
colors.
All children's garments, whether for boys
or girls, have the skirts longer by several
inches.
Pipings of contrasting colors will be much
worn, but they will not be round as form
erly, but fiat.
Princess dresses are made for the street of
fine, lightweight cloths, and worn with
little drapings.
Bonnet trimmings are arranged to pro-
duCe a simple and quiet effect by the best
millinery artists.
Old gold, jacques red, beige, mastic and
robins egg blue are the colors most sought
for at the moment.
The rule for little girls skirts is for them
to be long enough to reach line just above
the top of the boots.
Scarfs are draped round the princess
dresses and knotted behind, with the ends
falling over the train.
The fashionable evening shades are pale
rose, pale blue, opaline or rose gray pale
dove, and ashes of roses.
White terry makes a pretty waistcoat
that may be worn with any kind of a street
or indoor morning costume.
Medici ruffs and sleeves, with puffs in the
armhole and around the elbow, are an
nounced as coming fashions
So fine and handsome are some of the
Scotch ginghams that it is compliment to
the spring silks to compare them.
The novelty in bonnet shapes seen at the
openings of the past week, is a Marie Stuart
brim, fared at the sides and with very long
ears.
An ostrich tip or wing and an ornament
of metal, Jet or beads with a scarf of yelling
material is the only trimming that round
hat needs
White aprons are worn in fine batistes or
lawn, handsomely trimmed with lace or
platings. Bows of bright ribbon have a
pretty effect.
Lace waistcoats-Honiton, Duchesse, Rus
sian point, antique cut-work and guipure
will be very fashionable, worn over silk
toilets, this spring.
All kinds OF trimming of the material are
fashionable this seas0n--side pleatngs, box
pleatings, knife-blade pleatings, shilTings,
Iputfs, rutfles, hounees, shell and leaf trim
ming and pipings.
Beetles and butterflies, and all sorts of
flies of silver, gold and steel tilagree, and
tipped with imitation jewels-opals, dia-
monds, pearls, rubies; and emeralds--are
seen nestled among the bonnet trimmings
at the spring openings.
Pearl buttons, quantity carved and col
ored to match the bourettes, are made to be
sewed on through the eyes in the center in
stead of having shanks. They are very con-
venient on washing goods and are worn
also on silk or woolen costumes
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