The World of fashion and continental feuilletons [afterw.] The Ladies' monthly magazine, The World of fashion [afterw.] Le Monde élégant; or The World of fashion, Volume 54, Issue 637 - Volume 55, Issue 6491877 |
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1.-Dress à deux à deux jupes back of skirt back view basques biais band black lace black silk black velvet blue silk bottom of skirt bouffante brim brown silk cashmire CHAPEAU chest closed by buttons color corsage crown Cuirasse deux jupes draped band draped tablier dress edged by narrow elegant fashionable fastened finished floating ends flounce of white flowers flûted flounce flûted frill folds form points foulard frill of lace frill of white front and sides front forms front of skirt front view full-sized pattern gilet grey group of bows inches Ladies left side lengthening loops MADAME MAISON Miss narrow lace neck Number ornamented ostrich feather pale passementerie Pelisse pieces plastron plate 3a pleats Polonaise Princesse PROMENADE COSTUME puff right side rouleaux round seam shade side of front silk bands skirt forms skirt is trimmed sleeves tabs Tunique underskirt upper skirt view see plate waist white muslin
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Page 21 - the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot—but is gone for ever from our imagination, and we can only believe in the joy of childhood. But the first glad moment in our first love is a vision which returns to us to the last, and
Page 21 - with it a thrill of feeling intense and special as the recurrent sensation of a sweet odour breathed in a far-off hour of happiness. It is a memory that gives a more exquisite touch to tenderness, that feeds the madness of jealousy, and adds the last keenness to the agony of despair.—
Page 21 - St., Shopfield. The other papers consisted of letters which had passed between the contracting parties. (To be continued.) EARLY GLADNESS.—So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory. We can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood ; doubtless that joy
Page 21 - HOME.—The fireside is a school of infinite importance ; it id important because it is universal, and because the education it bestows, being woven in the woof of childhood, gives form and colour to the whole texture of