The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-30
ITEMS FOR THE LADIES.

Bouquets for parties or balls should be
fiat.
Mantel lambreauins are made of Ma
craime lace.
Bridal slippers are ornamented with pearl
bead buckles.
Jabots of fine lace are de rigeuer with
dinner toilets.
The gabrielle with hood is the favorite
style of domino.
Spring prints and percales are seen on the
dry goods counters.
Ceremonious dinner toilets demand elbow
sleeves and lace rut1les.
Coiffures tend to completeness, and are
worn lower in the back.
The Duchess of Cumberland's bridal train
was five yards of white velvet
The fashionable parlor work for ladies is
embroidery on mummy cloth.
Should young ladies be good oarsmen be-
cause they know how to Feather" their
"sculls"'
Small boufant draperies or paniers are
arranged back of the waistcoat Oh all dressy
| Partisan toilets.
Ball and evening shoes must be trimmed
very small and fiat
Oriental silks, Persian and Egyptian silks,
satinS, velvets, brocades and corduroys are
all used for waistcoats.
Very small figures, checks and stripes on
white grounds, are the feature in the new
spring CalicoeS and percales.
Satin brocades are The most elegant mate
rials used this season for bridal toilets
Deepest cream white is the favorite color.
A double cape of heavy silk chenille, with
tinsel thread twisted in the same, is the
la est novelty for the neck in place of a
scarf.
Snake bracelets winding several times
around the arm, and having ieWeled eyes
are among late novelties III jeWelry and or
namentS.
The long waistcoats worn with dressy
toilets are separate garments, and may be
worn with several different kinds of coats
and skirts.
White sa,in dresses of creamy or leaden
tint are worn by elderly ladies for full
dress, with full trimmings of creamery old
point laces.
Birds of paradise butterflies, and insects
Of all sorts in he form of gold hlagree and
'~@S
hair for full dress.
The hat of the passing moment is the
edueStriennc, in rough gray felt, banded
with three narrow ribbons placed at inter
walls around the crown.
A Partisan fancy is to use several yards
of white India cashmere in the place of a
, sor,i du bal in which the wearer envelopes
herself from head to foot.
The belted Josephine corsage the corset
basque, and the corsage with long points
back and front are all worn for evening
toilets with low, square necks.
The favorite style of wearing the pend
ant is suspended by an inch wide satin rib
, bon around the neck, though the necklace
and neck chain are still worn.
Mummy cloths rough surfaced cottor
fabrics in all the fashionable shades for'up
, holstery, are all the rage at the moment fol
portieres and window draperies.
> For street wear, under all circumstances
!. very simple dress, although it be it'll
! shabby, is preferable to one more elabor
E ately draped and trimmed that has lost it
freshness.
a a The furnishing houses are..selling pannie
1 bustles of dimity and briliantine, witt
steel springs in them to support short o
demi-trained dancing dresses, but the sal
i is as yet very limited.
n All morning toilets for the street shoul
: be short and very dark or black The me
. terials may be vigogne, cashmere, camel
= hair, and all woolen goods, but the trim
Il mings may be of silk.
e The fancy of the moment in short CO!
n tunes is skirt and jacket of seal brow
~ cloth, the wrap also of the same in Engis
. coat shape, trimmed with collar, reyer!
It cuffs, and pocket straps of fur seal.
y Musical lace pins are small bugles, CO..
r nets, flutes, ciaronets, fageolets guitar
q horns of all kinds, and sometimes an ope
~ music book, with an enameled bird sins
e ing on the lines of the bars of music.
6 A pair of fox tails, of either the commo
It red, the silver blue, gray, black, or whit
# fox. mounted with silver or gilt bell to
and chains, is pretty ornament to taste
e near the horses ears in sleighing weathe
All sorts of stones are cut in canoes
chalcedony, sardonyx, topaz, amethys
o onyx, agate-and all sorts of translucen
n opaque and striated stones and shells
& various kinds are used for these artist
- gems.
Very wide bracelets are worn half wa
u between the elbow and wrist with the G
sc bow sleeves universally adopted for toile
n de ceremone this season. another narro
gold or jeweled bracelet is sometimes wor
y at the wrist.
T. Nacarat red and reseda are favorite con
ID binations of color for full stately evenir
,e dress. That is, the under dress is Of nae
r rat plush, satin, velvet, or moire, and tt
e overdress of reseda brocade, satin, or gr'
"a grain, or a striped silk fabric.
'e Foot muffs for sleighs and open carriag
v are made of the head of white or blac
\ bear, or that of the tiger or spotted leopar
~ naturally mounted, with the nose, eyes al
Id ears we'll preserved, and lined with shee
H. skins, with the wool well preserved.
er The costliest pendants are made with OIL
70 large jewel--a solitaire diamond, a sa
'0 phire, opal, emerald, amethyst, topaz,
le cats eye-for the center, embellished wi
re gold traceres or small diamonds a
10 around, and fine gold or jeweled fringes
tassels.
ye When remedy has stood the test of mo
than ri yaara trial and t0-daU ia mo