The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-06

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side-which encourages very Alabofat,
) methods Of trimming The patterns il
most of the prints, etc., represent tn,
long established standard styles, and SOM
novelties in watered stripes and over
Wrought dots and cross-bars. .srrg
| CAPS AND HEAD DRESSES.
| The Alsatian bow is quite the rage a,
teens wear it as well as full-hedged young
ladies and matrons, and milliners ant
fancy stores keep a stock of these bow.
all made up. The prettiest are Of foul
straight loops of wide plain or figured
satin ribbon, placed opposite each Other
and drawn tightly together in the ceptel
with cross-piece of ribbon; 20 ends, ei
ther long or short are admissible with
the style. The same bow for older ladies
is put upon a small crescent-shap> i foun
dation Of ribbon wire, and becomes cap
like by the addition of long lace barbe'
or lappets of tulle, with border of Bre
ton lace.
Handsome lace pocket-handkerchiefl
are, by a little ingenuity, converted inte
very elegant dress caps. The small cam
brio center is all gathered up and con.
eealed by fiat bows and flowers, and di.
adem of roses passes under one point at
the front The opposite point falls over
the braid of hair at the back, while at
the sides the points are lifted up and
tackled down upon the bow in the center.
Where the face requires it for becoming
ness, full ruche of tulle or crepe isse
may run from the coronet of roses around
to the back, where it is finished by a
bow of ribbon with long ends.
| SPRING BoNNETs.
| The earlier shapes are large, with
square crowns and wide fronts, which are
high over the forehead, but still rather
close and flat at the sides. One style in
black English straw has round crown a
little sloping at the back and brim
which flares over the forehead, and is
longer at the ears than the capotes of the
winter have been. Another shape, which
resembles the first in other pecuiarities,
has the hrim over the forehead turned
up abruptly against the crown, and then
at the edge bent slightly forward again,
thus making hollow which would al
low for ample face-trimming. Another
style, which by the variation of the
trimming becomes either bonnet or a
round hat, has high square crown, and
a brim which has one side considerably
wider than the other, and turned up
sharply. Another style has Normandy
crown and close-ftting brim, which ad-
mits of very little face-trimming over
the forehead, and turns up little in the
back to show facing of velvet or shrred
satin. A style which trims up very
prettily has round crown and brm
which is moderately wide in front and at
one side but narrows down to almost
nothing at the other. Models of this
shape are trimmed with an even wreath
of violets without leaves, raised upon
the crown ON one side and falling to take
the place of the brim on the other. Over
the forehead the brim is lined with
shirred satin and filled in with a plating
of white lace. Over the top is large
violet satin bow, with ribbons coming
down to tie under the chin.
The most stylish hat worn Just at
present in New York is the small turban,
or toque, with soft putfed satin crown,
and a scarf of Pekin, or plain satin,
twisted loosely around it. For EVENING"
and receptions this style is particularly
dressy, being made for such uses OF
white or very delicate colors, and deco
rated with ostrich tips to match. These
hats are not worn down on the forehead
as when the shape was in fashion before,
but placed back OH the head like a bon
net, and even, when preferred, furnished
with white lace strings coming from the
back. All of the above shapes, and a
great many others which resemble them
more or less, are imported in straw, chip
and plain frames, to be covered with
fsilk, lathe, or gauze. Straws for spring
are in black, white, gray, all shades of
brown; chips are in the gray and mastic
shades, and in cream and blush whites,
as we'll as in black. Next month will
show more variety in trimmed hats than
this; at present the season is not far
enough advanced for much exhibition
of any but sample bonnets. Among
these | noticed stylish fawn-colored
chip; or rather, the brim is of chip, while
the crown is supplied by two widths of
brocaded ribbon (pink flowers in bro
cade upon a fawn ground formed the
pattern) run together and pulled into a
Normandy form. An Alsatian bow of
the same ribbon is on top of the bonnet,
and long strings of white net were edged
all around with plated Breton lace.
This Breton lace continues to be I'M
ported in great quantities, and will I'M
doubtedly preserve its popularity for
some time. The genuine is very cheap
compared to most laces, but where
large quantities are used, its presence, of
course, adds materially to the cost of the
hat. Many Of the limitations, if Judi
ciously selected, answer very well upon
light hats, but some of them are odi0us,
and it would be well for milliners to
avoid those which are too cheap; and
for their lowest priced stock take blonde
and Valenciennes, which are pretty and
satisfactory, even in the cheapest quail,
ties. Breton is very beautiful and fine
in the best grades, and dressy customers
will be willing to pay for profession Of
t. In selling ladies bonnets, where the
white lace strings and often the ribbon
bows on top are trimmed all around with
real Breton lace laid in side-plaits, it
would be advisable to make a customer
understand that the lace will be valuable
as dress trimming after it has served
its present purpose. She will then feel
that the purchase of so much lace is
economical rathe than extrayigant.
A black straw hat Of the shape first
mentioned has a twisted cord of fine cut