The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-28
NEW YORK FASHIONS
The Salesman, the Dress
maker and the Milliner.
Among the Artists Who Study to
Beautify Lovely Woman.
MATERIAL, MODES, PRICES AND
HINTS.
New YORK, June 26.

cred subject, more obscure than the
Eleusinean mysteries, that delicate, i'm
Portant, expensive, and expansive sub
ject, is to be the subject of this letter.
Having had the good fortune to be a
friend to several of these young ladies
who have not taken Mr.. Punchs advice
about getting married, ] have been to
see most of the stock in trade of the fash
ionable modistes within the last month.
l have heard the several merits, and de-
merits, OF satin-striped pekin, compared
TO the worth and excellence of foulard l
have seen every sort of material, from
the beige, homely and serviceable, up
to the velvet-striped grenadine,
elegant and costly, even up to the satin
silver brOcaded petticoat of the enor-
mously expensive and grand bridal tot
lette. / know, and l am prepared to
speak, on that ever-eloquent and never
to-be exhausted subject, "the durability
and the usefulness and cheapness of
American silks" which are like dear
Penelope's web, never finished. The
any certainty when an American silk
will wear out. There are some to be
bought for 81 cents yard, which I am
confident will outlast the pyramids-but
this is digression.
THE GRACEFUL FLOWING SKIRT,
and the disappearance of the hateful tied
back; also the introduction of the vest.
This garment IN a contrasting color is
the most marked feature of the present
fashion The vests can be bought in
embroidered satin at Stewards for S15,
but what more beautiful fancy work for
Aoung lady than to embroider her own?
She could sit
"Pricking her thoughts in satin,"
while waiting at the stile, or on the
breezy piazza, and make herself blue
Batin vest embroidered with rosebuds, or
brown one with buttercups, or green
one with darker green oak leaves and
golden acorns. The designs are endless.
have never seen anything so pretty as a
dress at the races, a buttercup dress of
black grenadine with Louis Quinze vest
of black and yellow, with a deep fringe
around the polonaise of black and real
buttercups The black parasoI had a
fringe of the same, the little hat
wreath OF buttercups.
Another dress in "Parole's" colors,
hat of black and red, polonaise of
black, very long over a red silk petit
coat made in full folds, parasol of red
with black edge and handle, and gold
end and tassel. Very handsome and
striking.
A color very fashionable twenty years
ago, called
MAzARINE BLUE,
has also come up, and is very striking in
feathers and ribbon on 4 Leghorn hat
1t is to be found in all the thin mate
rials and in silk, in foulard and in satin
striped Pekin, and, made up with
crimson or scarlet vest, is very striking
and handsome. The big Alsatian bow,
70 well remembered by all travellers, is
exceedingly fashionable, but the face be-
meath it must be delicate, young and
pretty, for it is very conspicuous.
A very handsome, serviceable dress, is
made of cream-color or ecru camePs hair,
embroidered all over with wild flowers.
cheap. They last forever. have seen
one, brought from Paris three years ago,
which has been in constant wear, and is
now as fresh as ever. 1t is almost as bad
as an American silk for not wearing out.
The white buntings make excellent sea-
side dresses, but they are so common and
30 cheap that | might as well attempt to
argue the merits of unbeached muslin
from Lowell looms.
The black striped velvet grenadines
made up on color, though expensive at
first, are admirable as dresses 10 depend
upon. They are very beautiful; they
last well; they are always in good form.
They can be bought now for 50 yard,
while the almost as handsome striped
black grenadines, founced like Spanish
lace, can be bouggt for dollar a yard.
Spanish lace polonaises, on black satin,
are extremely fashionable and elegant,
black and white, in multiform combina-
tions, recalling "Robert of Lincoln" the
gossip of New England meadows-the
lark and nightingale combined, the dear
old bob-o'-link. These dresses are very
fashionable.
Then the bandana handkerchief is
much used for eccentric morning dresses.
These l do not find pretty.
But the foulards, in all sorts of chintz
patterns, are lovely and cheap. A dress
of plain claret-colored foulard with
ehintz trimmings is very stylish.
AS FOR CHEAPNESS
the beautifully made lawn costumes with
Bretonne lace and Valenciennes are fab
ulousy bon marche, and even those mod
ern antiques, mitts, which were $19 and
$40, are now 9S cents, and so on. Every
one wears a boufant panier. The favor
ite waist is deep round basque, with
Louis Quinze vest, position back. The
( sleeves only reach to the elbow, or very
little below, and are met by long mitts
7 or long silk gloves of ten buttons, or by
7 the gaunteted Swedish glove, or that Of
I undressed kid. The sleeve must be very
, tight, and admirably fitted to the arm