shoulder and in front is a blush rose with foliage; another is | dotted with gold. Flat bands of blue silk ribbon divide the worn in the hair. No. 8.-Watering-place costume. Train slip of white glacé silk; this is entirely covered with puffings of white silk gauze, puffs, thus forming an upper skirt and pointed tunic. Low corsage, and short sleeves to correspond. Narrow lace edges these and frames the blue silk corselet. Gold buckles fasten down the FASHIONS.-FROM MADAME RALLINGS'S MAGASIN DES MODES, 779 BROADWAY.-PAGE 19. silk bows. The garlands are all of dark-yellow flowers, with | with ruffled revers. golden foliage. No. 4.-Dinner dress. Train slip of pale violet glacé silk. Overdress of white tulle, dotted with violet; this has a deep flounce; the ruched heading and the narrow bias bands are of silk; above this is a pointed trimming compossed of a puffing of tulle framed in ruchings. The upper skirt is lifted at intervals by loops of violet ribbon with long pointed ends. Ruchings and double rows of white lace trim the low corsage and short full sleeves. Ribbon waistband; at the back is a bow with ends. No. 5.-A cottage bonnet of white straw, trimmed with broad green ribbon. Roses and trailing sprays of ivy cross the top. The broad strings fasten at the side. No. 6. A hat of fine black straw. A long vail of black dotted tulle falls over the chignon. In front is a cluster of roses, buds and and foliage. The black ribbon strings fasten in a large bow. DESCRIPTION OF PARIS BONNETS-PAGE 15. FROM MADAME MORRISSON'S, No. 6 RUE DE LA MICHODIERE, PARIS. No. 1.-A puff bonnet of white crêpe de Chine. A white silk floss fringe edges the broad strings. At one side is a cluster of wild roses and foliage and a feather aigrette. No. 2.-Bonnet of rice straw, bordered with blue silk. At the top is a large blush rose, with buds and leaves. Scarfstrings of light-blue crêpe de Chine, with fringe to match. A deeper fringe falls over the chignon. No. 3.-Louis XIV. hat of fine rice straw, bordered and trim. med with rouleaux of colored silk. Crepe de Chine scarf, fringe and feathers of the same color. No. 4.- Fernande" hat of rice straw. A broad pale-yellow ribbon is loosely rolled around the crown and forms large loops at the back. The long ends are fringed. A tuft of snow drops, with foliage, is placed at the top. No. 5.-Montespan hat. This is of silvered straw, with borderings of colored silk. The long gauze scarf and floss fringe are of a corresponding shade. The marabout feathers are white. DESCRIPTION OF CHILDREN'S FASHIONS.-PAGE 16. No. 1.-Dress of blue summer silk. The pouf is of blue, striped with black. It is lifted in the middle, laid in gathers, and trimmed with a handsome silk fringe to match. The skirt, rather short, is trimmed with two cross-strips of striped silk. These are lined, and each is surmounted by a piping of the same material. Corsage plain, cut low, and square across. A crossstrip is put round the top as a bertha. At the edge of this there is the same fringe as on the puff. The waistband is edged with a striped cross-strip. It is fastened behind under a bow without ends. Plaited muslin chemisette, with a sailor's collar, formed of an embroidered insertion, and trimmed with Valenciennes. This chemisette opens in front. The sleeves are slightly gathered. At the wrists is an insertion and row of Valenciennes No. 2.-Gored skirt of pink foulard with a deep-fluted flounce, divided near the top by a bias band of a darker shade. Dress of silver-gray foulard, with darker hair-stripes. The low corsage and small basque are trimmed with revers and tiny ruffles of pink silk. Larger revers lift the skirt at the sides. Pink ceinture. Cambric chemisette and undersleeves. No. 3.-Mauve alpaca frock. The skirt has a flounce en biais, gathered and forming a head. The flounce and the head are pinked and fastened on the skirt by a roll of violet silk, which separates one from the other. The head forms small flutings, fastened by means of invisible stitches; to avoid cutting the thread at each stitch, it is passed along on the side of the skirt without tightening. The tunic opens in front, and forms a point on each side. This tunic, with a puff behind, mounted in gathers, is caught up in the middle and at the sides. The same trimming as the skirt, but not quite so wide. Corsage plain, It is closed with buttonholes and violet silk buttons. Elbowed sleeves, with three violet rolls at the end. There is a narrow ruffle under the first and last; one turned downward, the other upward. Mauve silk waistband, bordered with violet cross-strips, and fastened behind beneath a bow without ends. No. 4.--Costume for a little boy. The material is a light summer cloth, or piqué. The pantaloons are short and narrow. The jacket fits closely; the sleeves are straight. Black buttons and braid compose the trimming. No. 5.-Buff piqué is the material for this pretty little frock. The edge of the skirt is scalloped, and buttonhole stitched with white cotton. A row of white braid follows the same contours, and above these is a scroll of white braid. The tunic corresponds, likewise the six tabs that fall over the top of the tunic. If the festoon is considered too heavy, a narrow edge of Madeira work can be substituted with good effect. No. 6-Costume for a little boy. This is of gray merino. The skirt is trimmed en tablier with narrow black silk braid. Louis XV. vest. Loose, open jacket, with straight sleeves and a small turned-down collar. Braid trimming. Black silk buttons. No. 7.-Little girl's dress of white organdy muslin, dotted with blue silk. The skirt is trimmed with a broad fluting of blue silk. Above this are three pipings of silk. Scallops edge the square corsage and short sleeves. Bows lift the upper skirt. These bows, the narrow fluting, and the waistband, are all of silk. DESCRIPTION OF BLACK SILK CASAQUES.-PAGE 17. Nos. 1 and 2.-This is close-fitting. The fronts are open. The square basque is rather short in front and at the sides; at the back it is cut in deep points. The long sleeves are of the same form. Silken rouleaux and black lace compose the trimming. The ceinture fastens at one side beneath a large bow with floating ends. Nos. 3 and 4.-This fits closely. Heart-shaped corsage. Straight sleeves. The basque-fronts are deep and square. At the back the skirt is rounded. The full poufs, the ceinture, the corsage, and the sleeves are finished by a silk tassel-fringe which falls upon a rich black lace. The basque is edged with fringe. The bows are all of silk. DESCRIPTION OF HAIR-DRESSING.-PAGE 18. FROM MR. J. W. BARKER'S, Nos. 622 AND 624 BROADWAY. Nos. 1 and 2.-Make a parting in the middle, to the forehead, and another across. Fasten the back hair well up, but a little to the left. Divide the front hair into three parts, comb it up from the roots, drawing it slightly toward the forehead with the comb. The points of the relevés on each side serve to make double loops. Behind, make a Louis XV. loop, so that the end may make two others, thus forming a torsade. Then add a plat slightly crisped and a curl as seen in the engraving. For ornament, a cluster of yellow tea-roses forming an aigrette. No. 3. This chignon is composed of long hair, slightly waved, with small curls of short hair and two long waved tresses, curled at the ends. The whole is arranged on fine wire. It is intended to be used as an entire coiffure, for the small curls fall upon the forehead. No. 4. The butterfly chignon is also very elegant. It consists of nine long curls, all intertwined, and of others which fall in unequal lengths. A colored ribbon is passed between them. No. 5.-Divide the hair into two equal parts from the forehead quite to the nape. Take a small lock on the top of the head, plat it and roll it on itself. This is the support of the whole coiffure. Wave a lock large enough to make the bandeaux, which are to be fastened on the plat. With the remainder of the hair make a large loop set up straight from the roots, and attach it to the plat with a pin. Add a cluster of long curls falling over each other. With the ends of the four bandeaux, well crisped, or else with rolls of crispings, make four loops, with two of which come rather forward, so as to join, as it were, the bandeaux, and form a whole. Two other loops are placed in the top of the head so as to conceal the origin of the curls. A small tuft of lilac, with a train of the same, falling by the side of the curls, completes the coiffure. No. 6.-Divide the hair equally. Roll the front. With the back hair make a braided chignon which comes well forward. Crisp the ends of the bandeaux and arrange them in loops at the top of the head. Add a cluster of roses and foliage, with a bow and floating ends of colored ribbon. DESCRIPTION OF CORSAGES AND COLLARS.-PAGE 19. No. 1.-A white muslin bodice. Three bouillonnés cross the front. These are separated by narrow bands No. 2.-Muslin corsage. The collar is composed of an embroidered band with a muslin fraise. This is edged with narrow Valenciennes lace. The square revers are of colored silk, framed in lace flutings. The embroidered bands cross, and are attached to the silk ceinture by loops of ribbon to match. Ribbon rosette. No. 3.-The Présidente collar is of white muslin, opening heart-shaped in front. Double revers; the first is edged with Valenciennes; the second with insertion and a narrow crossband of muslin. A deep lace finishes this revers. Cerise bow. No. 4.-The Trianon collar is quite open, with quillings and a small jabot, all of Valenciennes lace. The scalloped band of dotted muslin descends to the waist. No. 5.-Pelerine collar of Mechlin tulle. This has two full puffs, and is framed in white lace. Page 24-No. 1.-This is of cambric. of embroidery. Broader bands, with flutings of muslin, | It is gathered in at the waist. The wide band of lace insertion form the bretelles; the upright collar and jabot have embroidered edges. Ribbon bow. Long sleeves, trimmed to correspond. is framed in ruchings of muslin; beneath it passes a broad colored ribbon. Ruched puffings head the full sleeves. The deep cuffs are of lace. |