The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-18

STYLE AND OTHER GOSSIP.
Items Which are Of Most Interest to
the Ladies'.

the Ladies.
Ribbed velvets are much worn.
Sealskin fringe is late novelty.
Bridal wreaths are in diadem form.
The most popular bonnet is the direc-
toire.
Painted gauze ball-dresses will be
worn.
English walking jackets will be worn
Again.
Paniers are rarely seen on Paris
dresses.
The long dolman is the cloak of the
season
The umbrella" is the latest large
Donnet.
Vienna or Peruvian cameps fur is
novelty.
Trains are of various lengths and d.
mensions
Two sizes of buttons are used for most
costumes
Three-cornered neckerchiefs have the
points rounded.
Mink sacques are again shown as fash
ioaable garments.
The fashionable feather tuft is the
Prince of Wales.
Bridal wells are now in the shape Of
Ne Spanish mantilla.
Flaring shaped bonnets are worn by
fastidious leaders of fashion.
The new Partisan mutis are made to
match the bonnet, not the costume.
1t is now fashionable to border mourn
ing handkerchiefs with black lace.
Small shaded ostrich tips are worn on
c0lored shot velvet and satin bonnets
Tolitza bordering, a rare novelty in
black frosted fur, is again in the market.
Roses and poppies of dyed goose
feathers are pretty and expensive novel
ties
Metal butterflies ornament the newest
French bonnets. They look like the real
thing.
Large hats are worn in the French
provin cial towns, but in Paris small hats
are preferred
At a New York wedding the other day
a lady appeared in dress made out of a
cameps hair shawl.
African lynx is new fur that will be
very popular for trimmings and sets as
the season advances.
Black silk dresses are usually combina-
tons of fail'e and satin, with jet fringes
and passementeries.
An eccentricity of the season is an
owls head with staring eyes, worn on the
warm winter hats of ladies.
Mrs. Annie Chambers Ketchum, the
Southern poet, is now connected with the
Musical and Dramatic Times
Embroidered waits are very stylish
and very popular The embroidery takes
very expensive and snowy designs.
Fewer felt bonnets are shown than at
previous seasons, as the preference is
given to lustrous beavers or satins.
Boas will not be much worn this win
ter on account of the general use of fur
bands and Innings on wraps of all kinds.
At church weddings at New York, the
bride and her party are now met at the
church by the groom, with or without his
Nest man.
Three trousseaux for New York ladies
came over from Europe in the Both
MIA the other day. Three papas paid
1000 duties.
In ball costumes the low corsage is to
be retained and as much display of neck
and arms as the modesty of our refined
young ladies will permit.
Mask wells are revived and have the
finest of fine jet beads sewed upon them,
in order to help the business of eye doc
tors, suggests the New York Mail
Pure white trimmings are again used
on black bonnets; for instance, a black
velvet bonnet will be trimmed with white
watered ribbon and white plumes
Wooden corduroy is favorite material
for cloaks for young girls; it is light, soft
and warm, and comes in the pretty ecru
and gray tints that are SO fashionable
this winter.
At recent society wedding in New
York, the bride and groom wore sprays
of faded orange blossoms that bedecked
the groom's mother on her wedding day,
twenty-seven years ago.
The new bonnets have as many differ
ent materials as the new costumes. Three
and sometimes four materials are COM
bined in one bonnet, not counting the
feathers or flowers used for garniture.
The New York Mail suggests that ladies
over five and twenty years of age who
wear mems Derby hats on the street have
no one but themselves to blame if they
are insulted. The hat isoniy suitable for
young girls.
In the new sealskin sacques the front
is double-breasted, and is fastened BY
strips of seal, held by loops; the back
which is without center seam, is shaped
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