covered with gauze or muslin to match the upper skirt, which opens with revers at the throat. Coatsleeve, with a puff covered with white. FIG. 4. BLACK GRENADINE DRESS with a flounce round the edge of the skirt. The flounce is headed with two bands of gimp worked with jet beads. A black figured net skirt is placed over the grenadine, and is looped up at the right side with a long chain of jet beads. The fichu, which is made of black and white blonde, is trimmed with black ribbon velvet edged with narrow black and white blonde. The dress would also look well if made of either pink or pearl-gray satin, with an over-skirt of black tulle starred with jet beads. The head-dress is in the Grecian style ; a plait is worn across the forehead, and either jet or coral beads are plaited in with the hair. Amber beads are sometimes worn with this arrangement of hair. FIG. 5. DRESS OF ENGLISH BAREGE. The skirt is scalloped and bound with blue ribbon. A band of blue silk encircles the skirt, and is edged and orna. mented with cross pieces of black lace inserting. Short basque FIG. 6.-EVENING TOILET FOR A Dress of cornWATERING-PLACE. colored silk or satin, with a trailing skirt ornamented with two bands of white silk overlaid with Between these white blonde. bands are rosettes of blonde. Pointed corsage; the upper portion is composed of white crape laid in plaits, and trimmed with corn-colored ribbon and blonde lace. FIG. 7.-SEASIDE MORNING TOIᏞᎬᎢ. Dress of light green alpaca, with coatsleeves and plain corsage. Over-dress of gray alapaca, made in Gabrielle shape, with epaulets of green and ornaments of gimp of the same color. Straw hat, trimmed with green. DESCRIPTION OF CHILDREN'S FASHIONS.-PAGE 17. No. 1.-Little girl's dress of white organdy muslin, trimmed with two fluted flounces separated by a puff lined with blue ribbon, all put on so as to form a point on one side. The upper flounce is headed by blue chenille ornaFull waist, ments or flowers. Short square at the neck. Broad belt, sleeves, ruffled. with a rosette at the side. EVENING HEAD-DEESS. SILK BREAKFAST CAP. 13 No. 2.-Little boy's costume of maize-colored alpaca. The jacket, vest and full pantaloons, are trimmed with bands of blue silk. Blue stockings. No. 3.-Little girl's dress of foulard, trimmed with bands and cross-pieces of pink silk, ornamented with buttons. Low cor sage, profusely trimmed back and front with buttons. Girdle, with long ends scalloped and braided. No. 4.-Little girl's dress of figured grenadine, worn with a muslin waist, tucked and trimmed with lace. Blue silk bretelles and wide belt. The skirt is trimmed with a band of blue silk, ornamented with diamonds of the same. BATHING COSTUMES.-PAGE 20. No. 1.-Blouse and pantaloons of white merino. The trimmings consist of black worsted braid and horn buttons. Scarf girdle of blue merino. Net of oil silk. flannel, made with a yoke. The trimming is white gimp with No. 2.-Zouave pantaloons, and blouse of blue merino or worsted drop buttons. Broad waistband, laced in front, and composed of black merino bound with white. No. 3-Blouse and 'pantaloons of red flannel, bound and trimmed with bands of white merino. Girdle of white merino. No. 5.-Skirt of blue and white striped foulard; the bottom is scalloped, and trimmed by groups of four narrow bands of WHAT SHOULD BE WORN, AND WHAT SHOULD NOT. blue ribbon, crossing each other and forming squares, the ends | SUMMARY-Striped Materials-How Made up-Light Hair-Morning of bands finished by a small blue silk grelot or bell button. High body and sleeves of plaited muslin, the collar, cuffs and epaulettes of blue silk, edged with grelots. Ceinture with large bow and flowing ends of broad blue ribbon, the ends with deep fringe, and lozenge in passementerie. Dresses-Collars-White Mohair-Description of Two Varieties of Trimming for them-Chambery Gauzes, &c. As the season advances, it is very palpable that all striped materials are taken into high favor. In Paris this is especially the case, for on warm sunny days, striped silk grenadines are to No. 6.-Little girl's dress of white muslin, with a deep hem, I be seen on all those who claim to be "well-dressed." Alterand trimmed with a ruffle in front, put on en tablier, and forming bretelles over the shoulders. The front is ornamented with puffs and inserting. Short puffed sleeves, edged with a ruffle. Broad green silk sash, with fringed ends, fastened on one side. nate stripes of a deep shade of pink (almost approaching to a rose color) and white is the fashionable mixture. These silk grenadines are almost exclusively appropriated to afternoon wear; they are made with a plain untrimmed skirt, and shortwaisted, slightly full bodice, with sleeves which fasten at the No. 7.-Little girl's dress of piqué, trimmed with braid and wrist, and a band two inches wide round the waist. This band buttons. Coatsleeves and outside pockets. No. 8.-Dress of green and white silk gauze, plaided. It is trimmed around the bottom with a narrow green silk ruffle. Folds of the same material as the dress are bound on the upper and ruffled on the lower edge, and are kept in place on the skirt by means of green silk buttons. Jacket open below the chest, over which it is closed by means of three buttons and loops. It is edged with two rufies of green silk. Coatsleeves. Full chemisette. Sash, with loop and ends on one side. No. 9.-Little girl's dress of white dotted muslin. The skirt is ornamented with a puff of the same, with a ruffle on each side. Full waist. Puffed sleeves. Broad pink silk sash, with fancy ends. is fastened with a moderately sized mother-of-pearl buckle; for both very broad bands and very long buckles have grown into sudden disfavor. The paletot is almost an apology for one, so small are its dimensions. It is made of the striped rose-color and white grenadine, and has no sleeves, for those in the bodice do duty for both bodice and paletot. It is short, and faced in front with rose-colored silk revers; the waistband is worn above the paletot, and the epaulets and pockets consist entirely of Valenciennes lace, made expressly for these dainty little coveriugs. Where economy prevails of necessity over the toilette, the epaulets and pockets are made of grenadine, and trimmed round with Valenciennes edging. These are neither so delicate nor so novel as those made entirely of lace, but they are the best substitute for that costly material. The bonnets worn with these dresses are as cloud- COLLARS AND SLEEVES. PAGE 12. lace. Black lace edges the frills of morning white petticoats, and white lace those of the afternoon and evening ones; is not the luxury of the toilette great in these days? The milliners and dressmakers are wild for fresh ideas, for variety is the desire, and a strong wish for "something different from what everybody else wears" appears to pervade the feminine members of the gay world. For every accessory of the toilet there is abundant variety of material this season; a little ingenuity and much good taste are the two requisites. Simplicity is the principal characteristic of all those we see in the most fashionable morning gatherings. For young ladies, the dress and paletot alike are indispen sable. The materials chosen are usually light gray, stone or drab in color, and are either alpaca, camlet, poil de chèvre, or some mixtures of silk and wool, of which there is, happily, a great variety manufactured. The skirt is gored and trimmed above the deep hem with colored ribbon, blue, pink or green, whichever best suits the complexion of the wearer. Sometimes the ribbon is carried down in three lines at each side of the skirt; the lines commence at the waist, and are graduated in length, the front lines being considerably shorter than those at the back. These ribbons have the effect of sashes, and are finished off at the ends with either fringe of the same color or black lace. Other dresses have chevrons, or large X's, or some other devices in colored ribbon at each breadth, just above the hem. But the newest style of self-colored morning dress is trimmed round the skirt, above the hem, with two rows of bright moire ribbon, an inch and a half wide, and with one row down every seam where the breadths are joined. The bodice is made with basques at the back, which are edged with ribbon; the ribbon is also carried straight down the centre of the back from the neck to the waist, where there is a small strap and two buttons, thus giving the effect of a dress fastened at the back; the epaulets are mere lines of ribbon. The collars worn with these dresses are of two styleseither a narrow silk necktie of the same color as the trimming on the dress, with pointed ends, which are edged with Valenciennes lace, about two inches wide, and have an anchor, or butterfly, or bird, or sprig, in the same lace appliqué on to each of them. This mode of sewing detached motifs of lace on to colored silks is very effective. When these pretty neck ties are not adopted, linen collars and sleeves, with lace insertion and edging are worn. There are several varieties of lace and open stitches, now inserted into linen, but the small neckties with the detached sprigs of lace are decidedly the newest. Toilets composed entirely with white mohair appear to be more popular than any others; the dresses are looped up over petticoats of the same material, and the skirts are trimmed with colored ribbon-velvet. I remarked two toilets in this style upon the day of the last races; both were different, but both novel. The first had a coat-basquine fitting the figure; the skirt looped up with straps piped with groseille velvet, and edged with black guipure; the petticoat was bordered with groseille fringe, partially concealed with a row of black guipure. The basquine was very short; it fitted the figure as far as the waist, and had square pockets in front, which were surrounded with groseille fringe, veiled Iwith black guipure. The basquine, which was trimmed round with fringe and guipure to correspond, had the addition of a series of groseille velvet buttons down the front. The other white mohair dress was looped up over a blue and white striped silk petticoat; a white ribbon, dotted over with small bluebirds, was arranged as sash in the centre of the blue and white frog-buttons; a white crin bonnet, with a blue- | bows are both youthful in style and graceful-looking, and are a bird fastened at the side and white strings, brocaded with a flight of birds, completed the toilet. A small white tulle veil was worn at the back of the bonnet to conceal the hair. fashion which doubtless will become very general. When the paletot is made with a hood, the bow is added to the point of the hood instead of to the waist of the basquine. The most |