The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-27
FASHIONS AUTUMN FREAKS
And Other Items Which Interest the
Ladies'.

Niagara Falls is still the favored resort
of bridal parties.
Late Paris bonnets have an abundance
of roses about them.
The art of swimming is being acquired
by many fashionable ladies.
Ladies are buying cheap japanese fans
and painting them to suit their tastes.
At Newport the beaux are hunting
foxes and the bellies are hunting hus-
bands.
The styles of the sixteenth century will
be revived in the garments of the coming
season.
Anybody can feel at home in Saratoga,
but at Newport there is room only for
the opulent.
The English style of dancing at pres
ent is very quiet. The gliding waltzes
are as stately as minuets.
1t is noted that Maria is always one OF
the names of the members of the Spanish
royal family, male or female.
Unique dresses for little girls are now
made of gay plaid bandanna handker-
chiefs, with pleatings of lace.
Lace mitts and gloves are almost uni
versally worn at present, and they are
seen in a great variety of colors
At Newport, lawn tennis parties are
being had without limit, and other out
of-door games prove equally attractive.
At Saratoga they point out a woman
who is the owner of eighty dresses, and
travels with two poodles and two parrots
Fifteen kinds of ice-cream are enumer-
ated on the wonderful bill of fare of the
Windsor, Saratoga, and a dozen kinds OF
ices.
Compartments for the slowing away of
pins and needles, cotton and other small
articles, are the latest addition to belt
clasps.
Of the British army officers at New
port it is said that nature made them SIX
feet high, and society makes them much
bigger.
White parasols with lace trimming are
the most elegant of the season and ac-
company white French bunting and India
muslin toilets.
Ladies with artistic taste and talent
are turning their talent to account by
painting silk or satin to be used as cos
tune for the ensuing season.
The coming season will witness painted
silks and satins in many evening cos
TUNES, and the ornamentation will be
the work of those who wear them.
Fashion favors the use of sun umbrel-
las to the exclusion of parasos while of
on an excursion, or when enjoying long
country walks, or taking a lounge on the
beach.
The latest parasols used by the ladies
of Newport for the drivers are OF coloreo
velvet, bordered with feathers or wholly
composed of downy white plumes or pea
cocks eyes
Jennie June suggests that among the
ambitious young women OF to-day there
is more desire to do than willingness tC
apply ones self to preparation for doing
everything well.
Some of the new vase lamps are mar
vpIs of beauty, and they afford evidence
of an artistic taste on the part OF tht
public which the manufacturers arr
willing to gratily.
The new "tcardrop ring" consists o
) bangles, with small pear-shaped pend
ants. One forces as many as possible Of
t a single finger, and it is understood tina
, each tear is the gift of friend.
Dauphin gray is new shade of sill
that will be worn in the autumn. 1t ha
a vellowish tinge, not so deep as that O
; old gold, and will be contrasted wit
G mvrlle-green and with wine color.
Pongee driving-coats for gentlemen ar
e very fashionable, and certainly con
S Portable at this season of the year; an
Z when it becomes a little cooler thes
J. coats can be worn as clusters"
e The leading feature of the trimming
l. Of winter bonnets are fancy feathers, s.
/ called because Of the fauciful shapes
i which they are mounted, though IL
G, feathers themselves are Of natural color
II ! and are plucked from rare birds. The
. feather ornaments combine many rlt
- colors, and are mounted in fiat piec
~ that conform to the shape of the bonnc
I'd Harper's Bazaar says the first import
a tions of autumn millinery consist main
III of large bonnets, but two extremes a
VI VI represented, and there are also smi
vi vi close cottage-shapes. The large bonnt
~ ~ are pokes with close sides, and lar
!" brim projecting above the forehead. I
small bonnels have scarcely any bril-
and seem to consist of square croy
that takes in the back of the head, a
d. covers only about half the top.
n A new parasol is of dark blue sat
h. lined with light blue satin lustring. L
N. lining is bordered with a stripe OF r
1o and yellow figured foulard two incl
~ and a half wide. The handle of bia
polished wood Stimulates a cocks he's
ng Another parasol of yellow satteen is b
he dered with a strip Of dark blue fouls
ly with white dots. The lining is of satte
he and the stick is of yellow polished wo'
lat On the handle is tied bow Of satin r
Sc bon, which is caught by a band stimuli
is ing thermometer.
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