The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-02
THE DAILY STAR
FOR THE LADIES.
items of Gossip and Fashion OF
Interest to the Fair Sex.

on the new fur-llned circulars.
Younr ladies now wear Roman sashes
tied arainst the waist in child fashion.
Ball dresses have lace under the arms,
and are open neither at the back nor in
front
Young ladies are wearing low, fiat
crowned turbans, with brims of feathers
OF fur.
English garnet buttons, handsome
enough for iewelry, are among the novel
ties of the week.
English girls use dark blue Cape birds
and humminc birds instead Of flowers to
fcstoon skirt draperies.
The coming fair in aid of the North
End Mission will bring out many novel
ties of female handiwork.
Bonnets are more snowy than any other
part of the toilet. They are trimmed
with all kinds of materials.
The canvas belts grow in favor, and are
now seen in all colors, and some OF the
handsomcst are embroidered.
Satin embroidered with iridescent beads
and strung pearls is used for the richest
wedding dresses this season.
Some of the English fashion plates in
dictate return to the Old-fashioned
WATERFALL style of arranging the hair.
Fashionable winter clothing this sea-
son is made with more than usual regard
for the comfort of the wearer in cold
weather.
Heavy cords and tassels are again
ased for ornamenting costumes and
wraps, and when tastelu,ly used are very
hand d4ome.
American silks are growing prettier
each season; the latest design shows POM
padour stripes of blue, alternated with
old gold
Silk underwear in olive-green is af-
fected by ladies who think pink and blue
too crude for the requirements OF house
hold art.
The fur cloaks of this season are thus
designa'ed Medicis, Roi de Lahore, Al
lini, Nelasko, Mente, Sally, Mercedes,
Raiah and Damosches.
Letter cases of brown and buff calfskin
with pockets in each cover and on both
sides of the enclosed memorandum book
are exceedingly pretty and cheap.
New American Christmas cards are
two panels representing applecheeked
bows and girls with sled, s andng in the
foreground of snowy Landscape.
Worth has been using Roman silk
scarfs for entire waists of some ball
dresses and in others has gone back to his
old fayorite combination of maize and
poppy colors.
The Home Journal says the plain girls
fave an advantage over the better look
ing-thev are always in the majority
Some of them would welcome an oppor-
tunity to desert the minority.
Very novel fringes and emhroideries
are made of iridescent beads on gold
thread. These are also sometimes called
cachemire beads All the colors of the
prism are reflected on gold ground.
Among the new designs for table GOV
ers is a pattern of wild white clemati'
and barberrics, changing woodbne and
brambles and wild grasses and milk-weec
pods no leaf or flower being repeated.
For house and reception dresses, shor
skirts and demi-trains are rivallng il
favor the long-estallished train. They
show the same elaborate garniture anc
diversity OF design apparent in full dres
toilets.
The fashionable Balmoral skirts are {
revival of the old-time quilted skirts
and are shown in cardinal satin, in darl
blue, brown or black, wadded lightly
and quilted in most fanciful designs witt
borders.
Collars for small boys and girls to wea
outside of their wraps are made deep
wide and round-cornered instead o
square, and are embroidered in opel
English work, or else they are made o
line tucking and hemstitching.
At the recent "frecdom party of tn,
son Of the late Col. Samuel Colt, a
Hartford. there was q singing quadrille
in which the dancers, sixteen ladies ant
sixteen gentlemen, in fancy costumes
sang Mother Goose" melodies as the,
danced.
Solid-colored stockings are preferre'
Tor misses and children. The peacocI
blue and garnet stockings come in shade
to match colored dresses, and are ais
worn with white dresses. Scotch plai
and striped stockings are the secon'
choice.
Little girls from two TO four years Q
age, when their parents do not care
dress them in white, wear box-pleate
blouses, made of dark navy blue or ge
d'arme flannel. A wide belt of tn
flannel is strapped on low down on tn
hips.
The demand for cream-colored tabl
cloths increases with the fancy for brigh
hued china, and nearly all the patterr
to be found in dead white are repr
duced in the cream tints, and there al
more lunch and tea-cloths in this COLI
than in plain white.
The taste for artistic novelties in di
ner adornment is growing year by yea