The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-06-07
FOR THE LADIES.
Items Of Interest Which Most Concern
the Fair Sex.

Parasols are made to match toilets
Amber-colored roses are worn on black
hats.
Undressed kid gloves must be in light
shades.
Corsage bouquets are again worn at the
throat.
All sorts of lace and net mitts are to
be worn.
White is to be the evening dress Of the
summer.
Stockingnette is among new material
for bOdices.
Beads in profusion are the ornaments
most in vogue.
In trimmings of bonnets and dresses
red predominates.
There is tendency to revive the SIM
pie dresses of former days.
Watteau buttons, which are gems,
are the fancy Of Parisians.
Buttonless gloves have the run of
fashionable favor in Paris.
Fra Diavolo and Bolero are the names
given to two new London hats.
Yellow, red, heliotrope, and ecru
grow more and more fashionable.
Brides travelling costumes are called
"going-away dresses" in England.
Towels are beautifully decorated with
cross-stitch and other embroideries.
Flower epaulets will be the feature of
summer-night festival and balldresses.
Blankets are as ruch decorated as any
other kind of bed clothing and covering.
Gay handkerchlefs with wide borders
make the prettiest possible caps and
ties.
Pointed corsages though much worn,
have not superseded round waists and
belts.
Lis'e-thread gloves come in great var
iety, finer finished and cheaper than last
year.
Artificial flower aprons are the latest
novelty in these lovely, frail art crea-
tions
Black continues to be the favorite
street dress of fashionable American
ladies. ...
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., sheets and
counterpanes-has caught the art-decora-
tive fever.
If it were not for the display of pretty
Innings wouldn't the surtouls be just
abominable?
Nuns yelling is the latest white and
cream-colored novelty for summer toilets
of ceremony.
Table-clothes are open-worked in
stripes and squares, to show tho red cloth
beneath then.
Square gold nets, bordered with sequins,
are much worn at London theaters and
dinner parties.
A crown of Roman braids, with
crimped front hair, is favorile mode of
evening coiffure.
Low coitfures are worn by young
ladies, high Roman crown braids and
puffs by matrons. ~
Lace albums are the latest fancy Of
women who have no real work to occupy
their leisure hours.
The fashionable mantle for visiting
toilets is the mantelet-visite of faille
| Silicienne or Indian Cashmere.
Satin piping, neatly made, and ju-
diciously used on dress that also has
cord and tassels, is a great improvement
On Sunday the streets bloom like 3
garden of flowers; on less holy days like
a hurry-skurrying assembly of human
weeds. I'd"
Pink coral, though frail and delicate,
is favorite material for combs and jew.
elry. Indeed, that very frailty and deli.
cacy is its chief beauty.
Like those of Patagonian squaws, the
garments of the fashionable dame are al.
most entirely covered up with beads
not blue glass ones, however.
Ruches and pleated laces melt away
in the warm weather. Their place is
supplied by their more substantial rela,
tive, the creamy-white lace scarf, Span
ish being the favorite lace.
What a delight a red parasol would
be in well organized pasture. ut would
be "a thing of pride and joy forever tc
bovines, even as it is in a metropolis tt
the average feminine mind.
Ladies who deem it "vulgar" to dor
thin dresses at the first breath of spring
either put puf-box or pride in thei
pockets when out in ''the sunshine of the
merry month Of May" this year.
Some of the daintiest parasols hav,
the Innings hand painted, delighting tn,
eve of the possessor. But it must natur
ally be a frightful temptation to tip i
Just little and let others profit.
A gorgeous parasol is covered with
fac simile of grandpa's bandana hand
kerehief. We can imagine grandpa
saying, CHOW, there is something brigh
and sensible; not one of these new
tangled follols!"
Black bunting is substitute for gren
adine, favorably received by MANY OF