The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-14
FEMININE FANCIES.
Items Of Interest for and about the
Ladies.

Jet is more worn in Paris than ever.
Short costumes for garden and lawn
parties.
Hat and bonnet brims grow larger and
larger.
Kate Field is at work on new COM
sdy.
Parasols match the bonnet and dress
this season.
Gingham dresses find favor with ladies
Of all ages.
Brims of bonnets may suit the fancy
of the wearer.
The Fanchon and the Marie Stewart
are the caps for young widows.
Caps grow more and more dressy, and
are more fashinable than ever.
Very small white muslin bows only
should be used for morning wear.
Lace and muslin scarfsare worn around
the neck, inside the linen collar.
White muslin hats, with fchus to
match, are shown for garden parties.
Large jabots, whether of lace or mus
fin, should be worn only in the evening.
The Richelieu striped hose are still in
favsr this spring for ladies and chill
dren.
Natural flowers should be worn to the
exclusion of artificial ones for corsage
bouquets at this season.
Leghorn and Tuscan straw hats are the
most popular, as well as the most elegant
Of all the new productions.
Byzantine point is new, snowy cot
ton imitation that washes well and imi-
tates antique lace to perfection.
Courtney, the oarsman, has been hired
by four crews, each made up of eight
young ladies, to teach them how to row.
Slippers are more fashionable for house
wear than sandals. They are trimmed
with satin bows, set with crystal
buGhlas. E.
Mousquetaire hats will be worn for
summer with plumes three-quarters of a
yard in length hanging down to the
shoulder.
Mauve-color is much in favor this sea.
son; that is, as much in favor as a color
not becoming to all styles and complex
Ions can be.
ALI underskirts for summer wear are
made short. Flannel skirts are quite
scanty and are embroidered III colors to
match hosiery.
Crepe lisse lingerie is more worn this
summer than ever, and nothing is more
becoming than this soft material at
throat and wrist.
Short bunched-up Marquise polonaises
Of Victoria lawn and other white sheer
fabrics are worn with short, black or
colored silk skirts.
Many of the pretty summer silks are
trimmed only with the plainest of hens
on the drapery and founce of plating
On the lowest skirt.
1t is the fashion to have the stems
show in the bouquets worn in the belt.
The new holders are ornamented with
fans of Rhine pebbles.
Common flowers, such as hollyhocks,
exlips, cowslips, dandeIions, pansies
Snd daisies, are becoming very popular,
both in nature and art.
A foreign fashion is to wear white, pale
pink or blue satin dresses, hand painted
in artistic designs by great masters OF
sometimes by the wearer herself.
Muslin handkerchiefs embroidered in
eolors are caught into little puff in the
center, held by cluster of flowers, and
worn either at the throat or on the
head.
Short wells at the back of the head are
preferred by American bridesmaids to
the bonnets almost always worn by En-
glish ladies who appear in the same ca
pacity.
New breakfast caps lave long tulle or
lace strings that cross in the PACK ana
are brought loosely around the NECK to
form a loop or bow in front on tho
bosom.
Demi-trains are far more suitable for
summer dresses than very long ones, and
even the most elegant summer dresses are
made with them. The walking suits are
quite short.
Half fitting sacques of black, gray and
ecru camePs hair cloth are worn by
young girls, finished with piping cord in
the same, stitched edges and horn Or me-
tallic buttons.
Grape and lace shawls are drawn into
folds on the shoulders, and 50 worn that
the point only reaches to the waist in the
back. The ends in the front are fastened
under the belt.
Very dressy shoes are of white satin,
with lace drawn tightly over the satin.
These are worn with bridal costumes.
Slippers still have many straps on the in
step, some having small bows with pug
dogs head in each bow.
A pretty model for lawn tennis dress
is made of white cashmere, killed half
way up and tied with broad scarf of
dark blue satin cuffs and cape of the
Bame and a round blue satin hat, with a
silver oar passed through.
Some of the long gloves worn for even.
fngs are laced up instead Of buttoned
This allows the wrist and the arm of the
gloves to be fitted to almost any size,
They have very simple Arrangement
for lacing without the = n,,so If eveletholes
Mauye is a trying color to many com
plexions. but it is il better shades TIM
season than ever before, and has bette
anpearance by gas-light. White creP'
lisse about the neck OF dresses OF Uni
color render them altogether becoming