The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-19
THE DAILY STAR
THE FALL STYLES.
Intelligent Comments on Sep
tember Fashion Notes.
And Flashes Of General Interest t
the Ladies.
FASHIONS LATEST FANcIEs.

plates of fancy dinner sets.
Green blinds are disappearing from the
windows of fashionable houses
Colored thread lace is among the new
things imported by the millners.
Silk stockings of the color of old gold
are shown by some of the retailers.
The newest chatelaine pockets from
Paris are of black satin, very handsomely
embroidered in colors.
Pale tints predominate in stylish note
paper, and envelopes with monograms
In Japanese designs are popular.
Short skirts for outdoor wear are to be
retained in fashion, and very long trains
for full dress occasions is to be the rule.
The desire to learn more about the new
fall fashions is one Of the influences that
hurry the ladies back from the summer
resorts.
Feathers are to play more prominent
part than ever in fall ard winter fashions,
and the edict has gone forth against any
but natural ones.
The panier has triumphed again, and
graceful, boufant drapery is the order.
It is visible on all dresses and even on
outdoor garments.
Blonde hair is no longer fashionable
Veronese or chestnut brown and Murillo
brown, both having yellow reflections,
ere the favorite colors
The feather fans so fashionable to-day
are not half as handsome as those used by
our grandmothers, made of the tail feath-
%rs Of the male turkey.
A new material for bridal dresses is
white satin brocade wrought with threads
of gold or silver. There are also tinted
Nrocades with tinsel threads.
The engagement of the King of Spain
affords new proof that the man who
makes the most lament for the death OF
wife is the first to seek another
Some of the families who spent the
sumn'e! ~.ray from the city, are still en-
gagged III settiliS .hiugs to rights in the
home to which they have -aturned.
Long, fur-lined mantles may be ex-
pected to make their reappearance about
November. They are elegant, stylish and
comfortable, What more could be de-
Sired?
The India shawl still holds place of
honor among wraps. 1t drapes grace
fully, is harmonious with almost every
toilet, and the rich coloring gives an air
Of distinction to the whole.
At Newport the ladies are wearing en-
tire sets of silver or gold dollars for jew
nlry, and the effect is almost as charming
@ when chains of coin are worn by the
olive-hued maidens Of Syria.
An exchange suggests that if woman
can only make up her mind as to what
she wants and how much she can afford
to pay for it before she enters store, the
poor clerks would be saved many weary
high
The Regina" princess dress, a superb
toilet, gives the effect Of one toilet worn
over another The simulated upper one
Is cut away above and below the waist
line, showing an inner one trimmed with
narrow hounces
The season for the gathering Of the gay
autumn leaves of oak and maple is now
close at hand, and arrangements for gath.
ering them should be completed at once
as far as possible, as they are handsomest
Just after the first heavy frost.
Handsome prints for autumn wear are
In the dark colors strewn with gray
grounds formerly peculiar to French
chintz calicoes of excellent designs anc
colors that wash well. Some are pro
vided with single border, while other
have a border on each selvedge.
The gayest colors and most striking
contrasts are admissible for street wea
this season, and even when the main ma
terial is a sample one of quiet color tin
trimmings are most usually OF SOM
bright contrasting goods, or more Otter
of a combination of several colors.
The reindeer moss, that throws up it
slender pearl-white branches so profu.el,
In pine forests and woody pastures tina
they seem mantled with hoar-frost, i
very pretty for mingling with pyrola ant
ground pine in Christmas wreaths 1t i
70 common that its beauty is often over
looked.
The new styles in jewelry all show
prevailing love for the antique, and pins
earrings, bracelets and necklaces are COZ
led from the old Greek and Roman moo
els which recent excavations have III
earthed. The belle of to-day wears tn
same fashioned ornaments as did tn
Pompeiian fnaidens of old.
Harper's Weekly regards it as curiou
act that in the crowd that frequent wee
dings the feminine element largely pr'
dominates; it is the women who haste
In shoals to the scen2; young girls VIII
rehearse their own possible wedding i
that of their friend; matrons who 90 t
countenance a proselyte, and to critics
the fnery; old maids who, having no e!
perience of their own, would fain acquil
It by proxy and observation.
The novelty in lace that promises
rival Breton is called point d'esprit.
is of the same qualities as Breton, beir
simply fine net in which small dots