The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-24
FASHION FLASHES
And Other Items Which Especially In
terest the Ladies.

Cashmere shawls are becoming more
fashionable again.
One of the late VIM. M. Hunts two
daughters is studying art in Germany.
Boston opens its Art Museum on Sun
days. Decorous spectators attend in
large numbers.
The most fashionable handkerchiefs for
neckwear are in rich Persian colors in
palm leaf designs.
The panier mantle is one of the new
est designs in wraps, and is made of the
handsomest materials.
Plaid satins in regular clan tartans and
in fanciful combinations of colors are
largely imported for parts of dresses.
The newest white lace fichu is made of
seed-dotted net, with a plated border of
the same simply scalloped on the edge.
Some of the bonnets are very large and
almost exactly the shape of the old-fash-
ioned bonnets called the "scoop-shoyel
bOnnets."
Lacie Zarate, the midget, and her faith
er and mother sailed for Vera Cruz, Mex
leo, Yesterday. The profits of their three
years visit amounted to 500, ,610.
Mahogany is again asserting its suprem-
acy as the king Of all the woods for furni-
ture and architectural decoration, but it
will never again be an absolute monarch.
Bandana plaid silks with much red and
yellow are shown, and others have drab,
pink or plum color for the foundation,
on which rest the gayest bars ana stripes.
A new lace, that comes in both black
and white, is called "point d'esprit," and
bids fair to be a formidable rival to the
Breton lace. 1t will be much used in
millinery
For travelling suits the dark tartans in
soft twilled wool are worn again, and it
is found the largest plaids are most pop
ular, especially those that combine blue
with green.
Worth makes the skirts of walking
dresses little longer behind than in
front, instead of giving them the
round shape that has been in vogue for
some time. .....
The busy dry goods clerks complain of
moneyless women who poster them with
useless questions and complain if the poor
fellows seem trihe impatient with their
natural tormentors
The reason why ladies who indulge in
archery do not make better shots is ex-
plained--t their dresses are not loose enough
at the waist and shoulders to give perfect
freedom to their arms.
Full as bad as the eccentric fashion of
wearing long black gloves with light
dresses is the later one, inaugurated in
France, of course, of wearing white boots
with dark colored dresses.
New lawn hats are made of braided
straw and have wide brims and high
crowns. The trimmings are peculiar, the
crown being worked with crewels in wild
flowers or japanese designs.
Among the novelties of the season al
New York has been areception at swim
ming school for young ladies, with an ex-
hibition of skill by the pupils whose
sports recalled tales of the water nymphs.
While playing the organ in the native
japanese church at Yokohama, Mrs.
Maclay, the wife of the pastor, bowed
her head in an apoplectic fit, after which
she was carried out of the church. She
died in few hours.
The prevalent style of buttons for dress
trimmings, in Paris, are large and flat, of
chased silver, or bell-shaped in cut steel,
and both of ancient designs. Frequently
on simple dress of wool the buttons
cost three or four times as much as the
dress.
Banged hair gives the wearer an ex-
preston of doubt and uncertainty, as if
she felt little anxious less the thatch on
her forehead might not be securely fasten-
ed, or that it might suddenly go back on
her, and show something which ought not
to be seen.
New smoked pearl buttons are exquis-
itely carved in curious and pretty designs,
some bearing tiny house surrounded
with shrubbery; others bird, a flower,
or branch with tiny bird's-nest filled
with eggs. All of these are finely cut to
show the variety of tints in smoked pearl.
The new wool goods are pliable and of
light weight, yet give the effect Of thick,
heavy fabrics. For plain costumes made
entirely of one fabric, there are cloth
like "suitings," with indistinct threads,
lines and checks of many colors mingled,
and presenting the effect of self-colored
stuffs.
The use of satin has brought into vogue
again lustrous silks with satin finish for
the principal parts of the dress. Some
of the richest Partisan costumes for the
winter are made of black satin de Lvon,
which is silk with satin-finished surface
SO closely woven that the reps can not be
seen on the lustrous side.
In the rich trousseau of a fashionable
bride lately married in Elmira, N. Y,
was chest of linen, sheets, pillow-cases
etc., ETC., elaborately hem-stitched and
embroidered by the hands of the brides
mother, also superb bed-cover and pill
low-shams of finest Irish guipure lace,
wrought entirely by the deft fingers of
the same ACCOMPLISHED lady.