The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-21
SPRING FASHION FLASHES
which are of Present Interest to
Ladies.

Large bonnets do not take.
Pleated skir,s are very popular.
Clinging dresses already look old
fashioned.
Plain skirts without flounces are com
ing IN vogue.
Small boys and girls wear dresses pre-
cisely alike.
All light fabrics make up we'll in pleat-
ed kilt skirts.
Small children wear boots and shoes
without heels.
Elbow sleeves are to be worn again for
street costume.
Short basques are de rigeuer, with
panier draperies.
Paniers grow larger and rise higher
around the hips.
Un.rimmed round skirts are preferred
ror travelling use.
Black Brussels net bonnets bid fair to
be very fashionable.
New lambrequins and curtains are of
striped mummy CLOTH
Plain skirts, as yet, are worn only by
very fashionable women.
Children's garments have large square
pockets back of the hips.
Travelling dresses are made with no
trimming, or very little.
A new and pretty design for lace pin
is sheaf of wheat in dead gold.
The "Hebe" hat is worn by her isis
tiers and her cousins and her aunts," who
are Pinafore struck.
Newest white silk stockings are
wrought like lace on the instep instead
OF having lace inserted.
"Glace Marguerite" is new silk and
wool material for costumes; it is very
soft and fine in texture.
New silk bows for the throat are with
out lace, but are made up of the materi-
ais of the dress and its trimmings.
Bows of ribbon with long ends yard
or more in length, are worn at the neck.
They are called "creye-ceur" bows.
The tops of long kid gloves are en-
broidered, the embroidery also following
the outer seam on the back of the arm.
A handsome ornament for the hair is
in the shape of a dragon-Ay, thickly stud.
ded with diamonds with brilliant ruby
eyes.
The newest cottage bonnets clasp the
head close and have narrow rolling
brim, which is covered with gathered
satin.
Changeabe ribbons are the novelty in
millinery. These are shown in blue with
gold, green with cream-color, and pink
with blue.
A new skirt trimming consists of
square slashedup edges, under which are
placed rufi1es of pleated lace showing be-
tween the slashes.
The long Marie Antonette black lace
ichu is revived. 1t is crossed on the
bosom, and the long ends formed into
bow with the ends in the back.
Black thread hose, embroidered in pale
tints and bright colors, will be worn all
summer, though the flesh and ecru tints
promise TO be most fashionable.
An aigrette in the shape of a rose with
sprays of lilies-of-the-valley, defined with
diamonds, may be worn as an ornament
for the hair and also as a brooch.
GabrieIles fastening in front with
double row of buttons, and trimmed with
Aounces at the bottom, are worn by both
boys and girls under five years of age.
Changeable ribbons, blue with gold.
green with cream color, rose with blue,
and pale peacock and pink with gend-
arme blue are among late millinery novel
ties.
A pretty belt is formed by wide wat
cred ribbon passed around the waist,
with one very long fiat loop and two
longer ends hanging directly down the
front.
Lace overdresses will be worn during
the summer. The polonaise will be the
favorite style, as it gives wide range for
a variety of loopings necessary in the lace
The materials in use for untrimmed |
plain round skirts are corduroy, plain
satin, ladies' cloth, velvet, striped satin
ind moire silks, and moire and faille
striped silks.
A new way of decorating screens is to
nave one OF the letters of the owners
name embroidered on the top Of each
eaf, with scrolls, flowers and vines wan
lering from it.
A novel wrap is made of white muslin
IN long scarf, folded double, and edged
with fine pleated Breton lace. This is
Folded like fchu across the bust, or else
lied with hanging ends. 1t may be worn
with any summer costume.
Owing to the recent wedding in the
English royal family, flowers omblematc
,f the several countries interested in the
lnion are fashionable. This will account
or the present use of the English wild
'ose, the Prussian cornfower, the Scotch
white heather and stag moss, and the
irish shamrock. These flowers were en-
,roidered on the dresses worn by the
and formed of wreaths and
Handsome gingham lawns, sometimes
allied cotton zephyrs, are this month
uppiied in checks and broken plaids of
resh and charming coors. Pink and
'lue, red and gray, brown and buff, gar
let and straw color count among the
eading and popular mixtures. Linen
awns with white grounds and precise '
igures, or cluster stripes of color, are
icing popularity chosen for summer
resses.