The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-25
ITEMS FoR T1un LADIES.

Changeable silks are among the summer
fabrics
Fans bearing Biblical quotations are a
novelty.
All the new grenadines are damasked or
broCaded.
Ladies' kid gloves have heavy stitching
on the outside
Mother Hubbard is the name of one of
the latest bonnets.
Velvet pocket bags have a monogram in
silver upon the outside.
Frnges of two distinct colors are put on
some of the new costumes.
Elegant parasols are made of satin and
finished with straw fringe.
The cottage-shape.bonnet seems to be the
favorite for straw and chip.
A new design for pin is bundle of
wood with hatchet across It.
New parasols are made of black matelasse
silk and lined with white silk
Afternoon dances are the latest freak of
fancy in the fashionable world.
Wide belts fastened with buckles are seen
on the latest imported costumes.
Gold thread is a novelty used for stitch
ing some of the new short dresses
Old-fashioned yoke waists are again in
favor for dresses warranted 10 wash.
White illusion wells dotted with Roman
pearls are novelty for dress bonnets.
Delicate batistes are trimmed with colored
needlework, done upon grenadine bands
with silk
Two or three cardinal collars are even
more popular than yokes on the smallest
princesse dresses
Grenadine laminee is black, with flattened
threads of metal-gold, silver, blue steel or
red tinsel-woven in the bars
Many of the new pearl ornaments used
for the trimming of bonnets are taken off
and worn in the evening as jewels.
Gauzes evince many stylish transforma-
tions and show changes similar to those
which have taken place in grenadines.
| A new contrast, and very effective one,
is the pale Inastic, with scarlet or the darker
shades OF beige, with poppy red and green.
For misses are straw hats in Derby shape,
with rolled brims, or else with square
crowns and brims turned up like those Of
English walking hats.
French bunting should be dampened and
pressed before it is made up, in order to
shrink it at once, so that it will not shrink
out of shape after it is worn.
Pretty country dresses for young ladies
are Of Scotch gingham and fine mixed
checks, made with yoked waists and
trimmed with torchon lace.
Fine shaded muslins are revived this sea-
son and are charming in pale peacock blue
and lemon tints, the leaf-lke designs giving
all the shades of the delicate color.
The new mastic or putty color is very
| fashionable in soft chip 1t is trimmed
with satin ribbon of the same shade, and
pale oats, cOntrasted with scarlet
Another new design is that of putting
! pleats down the front of princesse dresses
for girls beginning them with a band of
trimming that outlines yoke; the garment
is then buttoned behind.
The English walking hat still holds its
place and perhaps as firmly as it ever did.
The Derby crown is as popularas the square
crown in such hats, and the height of either
is matter OF personal selection.
| Sleeves are still shaped to the arm, but
they are cut shorter than formerly, and for
summer wear will not extend far below the
elbow, mits or long gloves covering the
lower part of the arm in the street.
Neckties are in gray, green and mastic,
and beige shades, beautifully embroidered
upon the ends in mixtures of colors, Indi-
an, Pcmpeian, Egyptian and Italian The
latest combination is bronze old gold and
red.
White muslin slips for little girls under
five years are box-pleated from the neck
down to the edge, where they are finished
off with wide edging of embroidery, OF
else they are cut shorter and Spanish
tiounce is added.
Jackets for misses and for very small girls
are i'll the cut-away shape, without vests.
They are single-breasted, and fastened by
two or three buttons a seaDl defines the
waist line, and pocket flaps are set on at the
back in this seam.
For those who will pass the summer holi-
days at gay watering places there are ex-
qusite damasses and summer brocades in
every conceivable shade. Louisines, with
pretty basket squares, silk bourettes and
soft armures in pink, blue, chamois and rich
cream color.
The one great and prominent feature of
really elegant dress is hand embroidery in
colors. This is executed upon lace and
silk, upon silk muslin upon crepe de chine,
upon faille, upon cashmere, upon satin,
upon velvet and everything in fact which
has plain surface
The most remarkable thing in dress ma
terial is the manner in which all the rare
and costly fabrics are initiated The
bourettes, checked. boucled and basket
woven stut1s in the fine Kinds, are found
initiated in cotton and cotton and wool
goods costing not more than TO- Is and 20
cents yard.
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