The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-06
ITEMS FOR THE LADIES.

Overskirts die hard.
Basques are still worn.
Chemisettes are in vogue.
Antique laces are revived.
Canton crapes'are in fashion.
Navy blue is now called Clematis.
Leg-ofmutton sleeves are revived.
Snow gauze is shown for ball dresses.
The Henri Deux is the coming costume.
Small satin buttons are coming in vogue.
Knife plaitings are as much used as ever.
Combination costumes remain fashion
able.
The short kilt skirt is an accomplished
| fact.
The "gold braid" straw is fashionable for
bonnets.
Plevna is the new name for wine-colored
shadings.
Looped-up back draperies are no longer
| fashionable.
Waistcoats are simulated on most of the
new dresses.
French ginghams are woven to form
bourette effects.
Charles II collars are seen on new sacques
and polonaises.
The handsomest summer dresses are made
with kilt skirts.
Silk buttons are no longer seen on fash
ionable dresses.
Beads are used even on the founces OF
imported dresses.
Mantelets and dolmans have about ex,
tinguished sacques.
Linen collars and cuffs are embroidered
with colored cotton.
Handkerchiefs with colored borders are
among the novelties.
Bouce iardiniere is one of the new names
for knotted bourettes.
All fashionable costumes are made of two
or more kinds of stuff
Tulle walls with beige-colored chenille
dots are among the novelties.
Macrame lace making is the fashionable
woman's work at the moment.
Boucle dAngora is a very handsome
checked fabric in bourette effects.
Muslin bourettes and grenadine bourettcs
are seen among spring dress goods.
Pin-head checked bourettes are among the
most popular of the spring goods.
i lie EeWcSt UllllS ntOChlllSSdIeD DOulCItS
effects i'll colorS to match costumes.
Cashmere vigogne is the handsomest and
costliest of all travelling dress goods.
Lace vests made of Honiton or Valen
ciennes will be very fashionable, worn ovel
silk.
Gold and silver threads are thrown in very
effectively in many of the spring galloons
fringes and laces.
Gold threaded fabrics and gold and silve
galloons, lace, and other trimmings are uset
only for evening wear.
Mother of pearl buttons, in shades t.
, match the new goods will be used on WOO
and silk and wool fabrics.
= Ribbons, in two tones of color, watered OIL
one side and satin on the reverse, will be el
Il regle for summer bonnets.
t Gold and silver tinsel, beads of all kinds
g and mother OF pearl are all used in givin
effect to spring millinery.
Glass bugle beads, in opaline tints, ar
used to make sprays of flowers and fern-lik
y leaves for opera hat trimmings.
n "Emano" is new cotton material simila
6 to French cambric and will be used to con
u bne with lawns for house dresses.
Menu and dancing cards for fetes chan
J petre, lawn, and archery parties all hav
a appropriate and symbolic decorations.
d Short kilt skirts, blouse waists or wais
= coats, and cut away jackets will be in hig
y favor for midsummer outdoor dresses.
10 A marked feature about new bonnets
L the absence of all hanging draperies; the
are made to look as compact as possible.
d Sombreuil and filamentosa are two ne,
names used to designate two changeabl
1 shades of color in damask silks of th
u spring.
J. Pin-head checks in various shades of TIL
W same color on a darker or lighter grounC
"a are seen in the prints and percales of tn
season.
"a The new spring wraps are French sacque
/ of medium length for ordinary wear, Ca
rick capes and dolmans and mantelets fC
" dressy toilets.
= Standing fraises, held in place with fin
=, wire, are placed in the low, Square-necke
u corsages of the most fashionable evenin
l. toilets in Paris.
= Willow pompons, the ends terminatin
!. in seed pearls and tipped with an aigrett'
:, are shown in all the light and beautiful ne'
IL shades of color.
One of the new grenadines shown is j
e subdued Turkish colors, with tinsel inte
is woven, which sparkle like diamonds whe
:, seen by gas-light
E Flued black lace headed with rainbo
r jet passementeries, are appearing on blac
lie silk and black camels hair mantelets do
h mans, and sacques.
N Greek bands are worn on the skirts
v dresses little below the waist, they are
~, metal, leather, or made of then dress mi
= = terial, and have very unique appearance
r A SHOWER OF PINE BARK-The Raleig
le IN. c. News of March 2Sth says: We are il
r. formed by eye-witnesses of the oceurrenc,
-. that on Tuesday last, in the afternoon, abor
y 2 o'clock, great quantity of piecesof pin