FIG. 1.-Dress of white muslin, the skirt having near the bottom three rows of narrow white flounces, each headed by a blue silk cord. The body is pointed in front, and has at the back a very large basque, divided in three parts, and edged all round with narrow white ruffles, headed by the blue cord, which forms trefoils at the top of each of the openings in the basque. Bertha formed of two rows of white lace, with the blue silk cord heading.

Fig. 2.-Dress of organdy muslin, trimmed with a deep flounce, scalloped at top and bottom. The upper skirt is trimmed around the bottom and up each breadth with a double fluted flounce, and is looped up the sides with a wide ribbon. Low corsage forming a square basque behind, trimmed with ruches.

Fig. 3.-Dress of pink and white striped grenadine. It is open all the way up the front, over a petticoat of puffed tulle,

strapped across with pipings of pink satin. Short puffed sleeves. Flowers on the bosom and sleeves.

Fig. 4. Evening dress of white tarletane, with two skirts ornamented with puffs -decorated, at intervals, with large pearl buttons. Low Grecian corsage.

Fig. 5.-Little girl's costume. White ruffled skirt. Dress of white mohair figured

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Fig. 17.-The bonnet is made of white crape, quilted with large colored beads, and edged with blonde; a rosette of ribbon, from which issue the strings and two flowing ends, is placed behind, and fastened with a mother-of-peal buckle; the inside of the bonnet is trimmed with a row of ribbon loops. Double Dress.-The under-dress is made of

striped silk, and is simply trimmed

with a narrow plaiting at the cuff of the sleeve. The upper-dress is made of plain blue silk, with low bodice and short sleeves, and trimmed with a narrow plaiting at the cuff of the sleeve. The upper-dress is made of plain blue silk, with low bodice and short sleeves, and trimmed with a narrow plaiting of the same material; round waist, with sash, fastened by a bow with four ends, two of which are short, and appear to support the skirt from the top of the point; the other ends are long and flowing. The upper-skirt is cut very short in front, and descending to a point on each side about twenty-one inches in length; the back is very long,

and rounded at the bottom, forming a train behind. The whole is trimmed round with a graduated plaiting, à la vieille, to match the bodice.

Fig. 18.-Dress of cuir-colored mozambique, trimmed around the bottom of the skirt with a heavy crimson cable. High, round corsage, ornamented with crimson buttons. Coat sleeves trimmed with beavy crimson cord. Crimson belt, fastened at the side.

Fig. 19.-Dress of French muslin, printed à disposition, that is to say, printed to imitate the trimmings. The ground color is white, covered with small grey sprays, and the trimmings are bright green, relieved by a very narrow black stripe. Round the waist is worn a sash of the same material, fastening in front by a bow, and a steel or pearl buckle. Hat of Leghorn straw, trimmed with feathers, black lace and rose-buds.

Fig. 20.-Suit for out-door wear, consisting of au under-skirt, a tunic skirt, a waistcoat, and a casaque or tight-fitting paletot. The first

skirt is of mauve silk, with a narrow, darker stripe on it, and having a broad band of mauve silk a little distance from the bottom. The second skirt is a light buff or Havana color, and is open in front à la tunique: it is trimmed en mousquetaire by small tabs of mauve silk, placed in threes, and each having at the end a small steel ornament. The waistcoat, which really forms the body of the dress, is of

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mauve silk, fastening with small steel buttons. The paletot is trimmed mousquetaire down the fronts, to match the second skirt; the cuffs and top of shoulders being also trimmed to correspond. Bonnet of Leghorn straw, with soft corners of white 'tulle and blondetrimmed with peacocks feathers.

Fig. 21.-Dress with two skirts; the first or underskirt of cherry silk, having at the bottom a broad band of black silk, cut in pointed tabs at the top, and edged with narrow black lace. The second skirt is of grenadine, covered with narrow black stripes, and having at intervals broader stripes of cherry. Near the bottom is a plain broad band of black silk, edged on both sides by narrow black lace. There is no body to the dress, but in its place a chemisette of white muslin is worn it has a Swiss girdle, and a bertha with bretelles of black silk, both edged with narrow black lace, and pointed cuffs of black silk, edged with white lace. Cherry bows on the shoulders, and a necktie of cherry ribbon.

Fig. 22.-Dress of organdy muslin-the ground color French white, covered by small purple spots. Tight-fitting pelisse of black silk: the skirt is plaited in at the waist, and has, in the front corners, large ornaments of rich passementerie. The body is cut like that of a dress, but larger in every part; it fastens by buttons and loops of passementerie. Broad waistbelt of black silk, edged all round with passementerie, and fastening in front with a silver buckle. The sleeves are tight-fitting, and have

pointed cuffs edged with passemeterie, large epaulets of passementerie or gimp, and on the left shoulder only, aiguillettes of silk cord, with steel ornaments at the ends. White straw bonnet, with soft crown of white tulle; it is trimmed with pink ribbon and rosebuds.

Fig. 23. Tight-fitting paletot of fine plaid; the color light drab. It is made up at the back, with plaits like those of a gentleman's coat, having a square mother-of-pearl button at the head of each plait. The fronts close to the neck with similar buttons. Straw bonnet, trimmed with lilac flowers and ribbon, and having, at the back, a large bow and ends of white lace.

Fig. 24.-Suit of a very novel style; it is of fawncolored lenos or silk. Underneath is worn a petticoat skirt of mohair, edged at the bottom by a broad band of scarlet silk, cut in squares at the top: between each square is a tab of black velvet, attached to the skirt by two buttons and a buckle, all of steel. The skirt is looped up all round, by broad bands of silk like the dress. These bands are each of them fastened to the dress by two steel buttons, and at the sides of the lower button, are two short straps edged with black velvet, and fastened by a small steel buckle. The short

paletot has large square pocket flaps in the front skirts, edged round with black lace, and trimmed

by three straps and buckles like those on the skirt, and the cuffs and epaulets are trimmed to correspond. Straw bonnet, trimmed with white ribbon, roses, and ivy leaves.

Fig. 25.-Clotilde bonnet of crap-, trimmed with pearls and embroidered tulle. Foulard dress, trimmed with black velvet and narrow guipure lace. The basque is of the same material as the dress, and is tight-fitting. It is open in front and slit up at the sides to the waist; the opening at the back does not extend so high. Coat sleeves with loops of cord on the shoulders. The dress buttons down the front, waist and skirt, to

Fig. 26.-Alexandrine hat of straw. Dress and pale tot of white alpaca or muslin. The paletot slightly defines the figure, and is trimmed with a gauffered flounce and black velvet coat sleeves, similarly ornamented with knots of velvet on the shoulders. The dress has also a flounce around the bottom and a puff up the front, on each side of which are rosettes with ends. Fig. 27. Figured dress. Pardessus of black silk, trimmed with guipure gimp and steel. This garment is ornamented with bretelles, which unite with a waistband with basques and long square ends. Coat sleeves, trimmed around the wrist. Bonnet of black tulle, ornamented with steel and roses.

Fig. 28.-Watering place costume. Dress of white muslin. Louis XV. coat of crimson silk, trimmed with straps of black silk, edged with lace. High hat of English straw, trimmed with crimson velvet and feathers.

Fig. 29-Dress of light grey foulard, trimmed with bands of purple silk, put on in half-circles. Double skirt looped up with bands and rings of purple bands and rings of purple silk. Short, tight-fitting basque of the same material as the dress-trimined to correspond. Empire bonnet of white tulle, with roses and streamers at the back.

Fig. 30.-Pompadour muslin, green and white, with a flounce at the bottom of the skirt, headed by a narrow green silk ruche. High corsage, with pointed basques at the sides. Empire bonnet of drawn crape; tulle scarf and leaves ornament the back.

DESCRIPTION OF THE COLORED PLATE.

FIG. 1. COIFFURE. The parting is made behind the ear; the hair in front torms a tuft of little curls; the temples are fully exposed, and the hair is combed up in such a manner as to conceal the sides of the curls, and the cords of an orange-blossom diadem; it is plaited behind, and forms a large round, the middle of which is filled with a tuft of curls. The veil, placed à la Madone, is ample, and descends to a great length. Double dress. The under-dress, made of white silk, is gored at every width, and very long behind; it is trimmed at the bottom with a plaited flounce, fastened by a row of large white beads. The upper-skirt is shorter, and made of white crape cut in large scallops. It is terminated by a crape plaiting, which descends to the flounce of the silk skirt. This plaiting is also ornamented with a row of smaller beads. The silk bodice, covered with crape, is nearly high behind, and cut square in front, and edged with lace. Chemisette of tulle and lace. The sleeve is the plain coat shape, trimmed on the shoulder with a row of beads and lace, and at the bottom with two rows of beads and a narrower lace; round waist; silk waistband, fastened by a buckle composed of beads.

lace and trellises of silk with moss fringe. The body is high, the sleeves elbowed and plain. A lace insertion begins at the neck and descends on the skirt to about two-thirds of its length. From each side, at the shoulder seam, proceeds an insertion which runs down the body and on the skirt, just in the same manner before and behind. These insertions are narrowed at the waist. There are also others on each width of the skirt, which begin only at the waist, and all are terminated by a trellis and moss fringe. An insertion ornaments the side of the sleeve and terminates at the wristband ia a trellis and moss fringe; a lace frill at the wristband. At the bottom of the skirt, in the intervals between these ornaments, is a lace cockade, gathered in the middle by a torsade and a tassel placed at the top of an insertion terminated like those above. Lace ruche round the neck.

FIG. 3.-DRESS OF GAZE-DE-SOIE, trimmed around the bottom and up the front en tablier with lace forming revers over the shoulders. Tight sleeves, with flowing over-sleeves open from the armhole. Rows of pearls around the neck. Tulle veil and orange-blossoms ornament the head.

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FIG. 4.-DRESS OF WHITE CRAPE, over a silk slip. The corsage is high and pointed in front, with three basques at the back, ornamented by pearl gimp. Pearl buttons. Epaulets composed of chenille and pearls. The skirt is edged with a cable cord of chenille. Tulle veil and orange-blossoms.

FIG. 5.- A BRIDESMAID'S DRESS. The under-skirt is of white tulle. The puffs are separated by bands of satin, embroidered with white bugles. Tunic of satin, crossed over one side, and edged with chenille fringe, with a heading of white bugles. Tulle scarf, fastened behind, the ends terminating with a bugle tassel. Head-dress composed of cactus, with a centre of bugles, and white satin ribbon.

FIG. 6.-DRESS OF WHITE FRENCH MUSLIN, trimmed with ruches of embroidery extending, at intervals, onethird u the skirt. Low wist, trimmed with the Ba e. White chip hat, trimmed with velvet and feathers.

FIG. 7.-DRESS OF WHITE PINEAPPLE, made in the Gabrielle style, and ornamented up each breadth with a plaiting of chenille sprinkled with pearls. Wide silk belt, embroidered with pearls. The sleeves are trimmed, top and bottom, with ornaments of chenille and pearls. Aumonière at the side, composed of white silk, trimmed with pearls. Veil of tulle, arranged with orange-blossoms.

FIG. 8.-DRESS OF SILK, trimmed around the bottom with rows of white cord, and between which are ornaments of pearl. The coat sleeves have epaulets, composed of the same. Large pearl buttons the whole way down the front. White sash, fastened behind. Tulle veil. These costumes, it is needless to add, without the veils and made up in colors, may be worn as evening or dinner dresses, and consequently do not belong to bri-ies alone.

DESCRIPTION OF FASHIONS.