The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-13
ITEMS FOR THE LADIES.


Basqucs are not worn as long in front.
Stout ladies look well in princesse dresses.
Brooches are worn small and lockets
large
Embroidered net dresses sell in London
for 5000.
Bracelets are either very broad or very
narrow.
Very small buttons are again used on
dress waists.
The fashion of hanging fans to the waist
is declining
White barege is worn in Paris for we'd
ding dresses.
Chantilly lace is only worn in Paris on
black dresses.
Sleeves for summer wear reach just be-
low the elbow.
Considerable shirring is used on the
dresses in Paris.
Satin ribbons with a cashmere pattern
are fashionable.
Wealthy ladies wear diamond stars and
tiaras in their hair.
Camels hair goods display smiling COM
bnatons in cOlors.
A wealthy East Boston widow has eloped
with her milkman.
Cotton trimmings have entirely taken the
place OF Hamburgs.
Gold jewelry and diamonds are not worn
by ladies i'll mourning.
Lambrequins are sometimes adorned with
birds and their plumaSe.
Colored silk dresses are sometimes
trimmed with white lace.
Ladies are now embroidering Holland
| furniture in creWei work.
For plain wooen dresses bunting and de-
bege are the most popular.
1t is fashionable for ladies to knit silk
socks as gifts to gentlemen.
| Narrow satin ribbons of dark red are worn
with black grenadine dresses.
Black silk, trimmed with Grape, is again
the style for second mourning.
A pretty bow for the hair is surmounted
by butterfly worked on silk in net.
Polonaises are seen laced in the back and
opening half way up the front with revers'
Belts, when fastened to the front of the
basque, shorten the appearance OF the
waist.
Nearly all the new flowers for bonnets
have birds among them in some form OF
other.
1t is predicted that plated polonaises
with yokes and wide belts Will be worn this
winter.
Chenille frngcs arranged in founces,
are to be worn jet being introduced into
the fringe.
Breasts and heads of birds and whole
birds will be much used this winter in al
garnitures.
Small ieweled lizards holding a spray o
natural flowers are worn on the side OF the
bodice and in the hair.
The ladies in Woodstock, VT, have un
deraken to establish public library in thu
town without soliciting subscriptions.
, Handsome garnitures for fall hats ar
made of the bands of cashmere feathers, OF
which are two heads OF the merle bird.
Pretty table cloths are made of blac1
: cashmere, edged with a wide light blue bon
der, set on with several rows of gold braid
French ladies wear silver chateaines, t
which are suspended a silver egg filled wit
! rice powder, a mirror, pocket-book and pei
Gil.
: Feathers will be most used for fall Dor
nets, but it is predicted that flowers WI
l. displace them almost entirely later in til
q season.
Among new imported millinery goods
velvet called the Medicis velvet, whlc
= comes in several shades or colors combine
d in one piece.
= There are number of distinct changes j
D the "tone" of head-gear both in shape an
. form OF adorning the face surrounding an
the crown and cape.
: Exceedingly bright hues in every style {
: bonnet garniture have Ieen accepted an
1 the result gives to the beau monde sing'
G larly gay chapeaux.
An attractive feature in the autum
i modes is the presence of beautiful mike
n fabrics and often the colors belonging
i the family of red dyes predominant.
i White muslin curtains are fashionab
>. lined with color, and looped back with
y ribbon of the same. Sometimes they a.
u looped with scarf of another color.
d Roman aprons are made of striped clot
Il folded over at the top so as to form doub
frinped border 1t has no fullness, ar
;, reaches nearly to the end of the skirt
~ Young ladies sometimes turn the bros
l. brim of their hats back from the forehea
is and fasten it to the crown with a pin tn
% has gold heads, and is looped together wit
a chain,
y Skirt drapery will show signs of being lie
G. sheath-like in character. The pretty bou
sc fant mode will be once again favored, b.
.. with such quiet moderation that all stal
:, ling effects will be avoided.
II The owner of a pair of bright eyes sa
that the prettiest compliment she ever I
ceiyed came from child of four years. I'll
ID little fellow, after looking intently at b
er eyes a moment, inquired naively, "a
10 your eyes new ones?'
!, Crying widows marry soonest, which
IA not altogether unnatural, remarks the Ne
" York Commercial Advertiser. They rega
,e being left out in the cold without pr
= tector as crying shame Your still wide
- remains widow still.
y Bouquet-bows are made of twelve loops
er six different colors, two loops of each col
es being used. They are of inch-wide sat
n ribbon. andare loops of an inch and hi
~ deep, masked together like the petals of
e- rose, and form an irregular rosette VIII
de sewed on.