The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-29

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The latest shade of red is the Prince of
Wales
Breton lace jabots and scarfs are all
the rage.
!. Both high and low turban caps are
fashionable.
Black chip is the favorite bonnet for
all occasions.
Bengaline is one OF. the French dress
novelty fabrics.
The square chuddah is the favorite
breakfast shawl
Shirring is very fashionable on all sum-
mer garments.
Skirts of short dresses retain their mar.
row dimensions.
Reed green is ii new shade Of this pop
ular spring color.
Trains and demi-trains are no longer
seen in the street.
Elbow sleeves are seen on ball and eve
ming reception dresses.
Gloves are long, reaching to the elbow
for full evening toilet.
The latest novelties in fans are of fine
wire, painted by hand.
Gold and gilt trimmings are as vul-
carly fashionable as ever.
Waistcoats are as often made to wear
over the basque as under it.
New parasols have fatter tops than the
canopy ones of last summer.
Flat crowns with very little tapering
are seen in English round hats.
Position pleats and fan trimmings in
the back of basques are revived.
Parasol Innings are sometimes of gay
Scotch plaids on baadana goods.
Fichu collarettes and jabot collarettes
give dressy effect to a plain toilet.
The turban is the fashionable cap for
young ladies and young married women.
The pannier scarf draperes of Paris
made dresses are stiffened with erinoline
Pannier scarfs and drapcries appear on
all Paris dresses brought over this spring.
Caps made of silk handkerchiefs, in
turban or Normandy form, are much
worn.
Very large flowers, especially roses and
chrysanthemums, are used in bonnet dec
orations.
Silk handkerchiefs in Oriental designs
and colors, are preferred for dressy break
fast caps.
Bandana and gay plaid handkerchiefs
are made up into dresses for misses and
little girls.
Shades of yellow, from pale straw OF
corn, to deep tan and old gold, are very
| fashionable.
Scarfs of fine net, edged with Breton
lace, are as often worn for bonnet strings
as for neckties.
The marked feature in the new over
skirts are the shirred fronts and bouflant
back draperies.
Rhine pebble buttons look like dia-
monds at night. The price varies from
70 cents dozen up.
Crystal glass buttons, sometimes called
Rhine pebbles, cut in facets and set in
platina, are shown for waistcoats.
French bunting, fine, light wool
goods, is the material in use for spring
and summer half-mourning costumes.
Bonnet strings are tied in large loose
bow under the chin, not at the side, or
they are simply crossed in front, the ends
forming jabot.
A giIded or silvered wooden horse shoe
tied to a small easel with pink, blue or
red ribbon is the fancy what-not orna-
ment of the moment.
French chips are brought out in shades
of color to match costumes such as pale
blue, dark blue, tan, chamois, gray, beige,
brown and dark green.
| Nckel-plated, gilded and silvered horse
shoes with fanciful hand painted decora-
tions, and the motto "Good Luck" at the
top, are pretty things for philopena pres.
ents.
Boufant draperies, whether on the
hips or back, are placed higher and high.
er, the fullness more often being placed
lust below the waist line than lower down
on the skirt.
The diamond ribbon collar necklaces
are the fashion Of the passing moment
set in pave style, and with clasps that
make them available either for pair oi
bracelets or for necklace.
The novelty in spring bonnets is OF
soft chip, or Tuscan straw, with large
brim of the same dimensions all around
this brim the milliners indent to suit the
face of the wearer.
! A new fancy that will probably "take'
is to face the skirts of dressy costumes
with red silk, under which the lace bala.
yeuse is basted, making very pretty
and striking dress effect.
The newest white lawn and cambric
waists have the fronts in fichu style
made with a separate piece in six pleat'
on each side, sswed in the shoulder
seams, and tapering to the waist.
Among novelties in jewelry are lace
pins of Limoge enamel on porcelain, with
classic mythologic figures and Greek
treatment of the subjects, the bar being
surrounded with diamonds in fancy skel
eton gold enamel setting.