The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-26
FEMININE FANCIES.
Fashions and Gossip for the Ladies.

The finest tortoise shell is initiated in
mottled celluloid.
Fans, padlocks and such things orna-
ment new bangles.
The use of lace in trimming carriage
cushions is revived.
The Marie Stuart bonnet is very be-
coming to IN st ladies.
Cretonne for covering furniture should
be in only two colors.
The mother of the gifted little Goodale
sisters is poetess too.
Blue flannel suits are much worn by
children at the sea shore.
Linen serge slippers for the house are
pretty, especially if embroidered.
Very big poppies are utilized in place
OF ties, on Saratoga bellies throats.
Fashion authorities say bunchiness of
countour will not return for years.
New sashes are of rich brocaded rib
bons in Persian cOlors and designs.
White dresses are the favorite toilettes
this season at the watering-places.
Lockets made of highly-polished and
riChly-set Florida beans are worn now.
The Princess de Bourbon wears a black
hat with large pearls around the border
A pretty bracelet is a pair of clasped
hands of gold, a ring on finger Of
each.
Lockets are not 80 fashionable as for
merly, and large brooches are things of
the past.
A good many people are beginning to
take an interest in the game of lawn
tennis.
In a new style of imported carpets
there is black ground strewn with
daisies.
A pretty seaside dress is pomegra-
nate pink organdy, with crimson and
gold stripes.
A new style of earring is small grid
iron upon which a ruby heart is supposed
to be roasting.
In fashionable New York churches the
sections wear robes of black poplin with
broad velvet collars.
inexpensive fans are made of mummy
cloth and have all the effect of the satin
Pompadour fans without the cost,
In late style of stationery the pur-
chaser can select that which has his
favorite flower adorning the corner,
Rrocade silks show novel designs. Black
grounds have yellow butterflies, white
daisies, or birds wings in gay colors.
Many fashionable dresses are made
with the fan waist in favor many years
ago, and so becoming to slender figures.
The most fashionable glove is extreme
ly plain, the beauty depending on the
shape and fit; four buttons are required
for street wear.
The polonaise reappears this season
under the name of matinee, and is well
coined by ladies with great satisfaction.
1t is short and bunchy in shape.
A favorite way of wearing the broad
sash so popular at present is to place it
around the waist to form a belt, and to
tie it care!essly on the left side in large
loose knot.
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the contrast the better young ladies like
it.
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