you a very elegant model of the latter style. Some of those composed of shot silk have the fronts trimmed with narrow volants placed at some distance from each other, and forming a tablier in the shape of a broken cone. Others are decorated with several rows of effilés, disposed in the same way. Another style of garniture for shot silk dresses is an embroidery in silk of the two colours of the dress; a row of knots of ribbon is also frequently employed to close the front of a redingote; the ends of the ribbons are terminated by tassels.

| our elégantes, which will certainly be welcomed by the possessors of pretty feet. Bottines will in future be adopted only for travelling or riding on horseback; shoes corresponding with the colour of the robe will be adopted on all other occasions. There is also some talk of the revival of high heels; but this last report is, I think, unworthy of credit. No change has taken place in fashionable colours since I wrote last. ADRIENNE DE M.

Paris, May 24, 1846.

FIRST PLATE.

Evening dress is at present in a medium between the splendour of winter and the elegant negligence of summer, but more inclined to the former. I may cite among the most elegant robes, those of taffeta, either plain and of light colours, or of light colours, glacé de blanc. The corsages are very low; they are pointed, but not so deeply as in the winter; the sleeves are short and tight, or else à la Maintenon. I have sent you a model of this sleeve, which is adopted in demi toilette as well as evening dress; the garniture is almost invariably composed of flounces, either of lace, or of the material of the dress, cut in dents, which are sometimes edged with effilé. Several robes are composed of white poult de soie, trimmed nearly to the waist with tulle bouillonné. Crape and tulle robes are still seen, but they are no longer worn over silk dresses, but over those of coloured crape; the effect is extremely light. White tarlatane begins to be a good deal adopted for evening robes; some of the prettiest are worn over lilac, pink, or blue dresses; they are trimmed with bouillonnés, which reach to the knees; ribbon of the colour of the under dress is passed through the bouillonnés.

Caps are beginning to appear in evening dress; they are extremely small, worn very far back on the head, and trimmed with flowers. Generally speaking, however, coiffures are of hair, decorated with flowers; a double wreath, descending at the sides in gerbes, or, as they are now called, showers of small flowers; wreaths of foliage of every kind, intermingled with roses de Mai, or tufts of violets, or mignonette, are very prevalent.

I have every reason to believe that a revolution is about to take place in the chaussure of

LONDON PUBLIC PROMENADE DRESS.Robe of one of the new striped foulards; the corsage quite high and tight to the shape, descends in a rounded point, and is trimmed down the centre of the front with a succession of choux of the same material. Long tight sleeve. The front of the skirt is trimmed en tablier, with three bias robings, on each of which the choux are similarly arranged. Fancy straw chapeau, a round open shape, lined with blue taffeta, and trimmed in the interior of the brim with coques of blue ribbon and blue floating brides; a wreath of wild flowers and foliage, terminated by a knot of blue ribbon, decorates the exterior.

DEMI-TOILETTE.-Organdy robe broché, in a guipure pattern, over a dress of pale pink poult de soie; the corsage, a three-quarter height at the back, opens in a deep V on the bosom, and is trimmed with a pelerine en cœur of the same. Sleeve à la Maintenon, tight a little below the shoulder, and from thence to the elbow disposed in two full bouillons: the lower part descending loose below the elbow, and looped at the bend of the arm by a knot of ribbon with floating ends, forms a ruffle: a similar knot ornaments the pelerine, and a round one the upper bouillon. A succession of knots of ribbon, each terminated by three full floating ends, decorates the front of the skirt. White crape chapeau demi-Pamela; the brim is edged with a ruche, and the interior decorated with tufts of small pink flowers; the exterior with twisted bands, and a nœud of tulle placed on the left side: on the right is a full bouquet of white tétes de plumes.

HALF-LENGTH FIGURES.

No. 3. DINNER DRESS. Robe of blue mousselaine de soie; a low round corsage. Berthe of the same, embroidered in a very full pattern, with silk of a corresponding colour. Short tight sleeve, the bottom finished en suite. There are three skirts, each worked round the border: they are so disposed, that the whole presents a succession of embroidery. Pink crape chapeau Leczinsbi; the interior of the brim is trimmed with an intermixture of white and pink flowers; the exterior with ribbon and a full bouquet of shaded feathers. High chemisette of tulle, embroidered in a lace pattern round the top.

No. 4. BRIDAL EVENING DRESS.-Robe of white Pompadour d'été; a low corsage, trimmed with a lappel which descends in the asquine style round the hips. Very short sleeve, cleft in front, surmounting a fall of lace. Headdress of hair, ornamented with the bridal wreath of orange blossoms and white roses.

No. 5. PUBLIC PROMENADE DRESS.-Peagreen taffeta robe; the corsage quite high at the back, sharply pointed at bottom, and descending en V on the bosom. Long sleeve, partially open at the bottom: the sleeve and the top of the corsage are trimmed with passementerie. Cambric chemisette; square collar, edged with Neck-knot of blue-figured ribbon. Fancy straw chapeau, lined with cherry-coloured taffeta, and the interior trimmed with ribbon to correspond; the exterior is decorated with bands of the same, and a large chou at each side.

lace.

SECOND PLATE.

PUBLIC PROMENADE DRESSES. No. 1.-Grey taffeta robe; the corsage is high at the back, and descends a little en V in the centre of the front: the sleeve, a three-quarter length, is of an easy width from the shoulder to the bottom, and terminated by a deep turned up cuff lightly festooned at the edge: cambric under sleeve; lace ruffle. Cambric canezou, made quite high and close at the top, with a rather deep falling collar edged with lace; an embroidery in feather-stitch is disposed en cœur on the front, and the round of the canezon is bordered with lace: a row of lace, confined by a band of pink ribbon, encircles the waist in the jacket style, and a succession of butterfly bows ornament the front from the throat to the ceinture: a knot of the same form, with long floating ends, decorates each shoulder: the skirt is trimmed with festooned flounces. Italian straw chapeau, a round and very open shape; the interior is trimmed at each side with a single flower, from which a gerbe of buds and foliage descends; the exterior is ornamented at the sides by flowers and foliage, connected by a twisted ribbon to correspond: brides of the same complete the garniture.

No. 2.-Robe of pink quadrilled foulard; the corsage made close and quite up to the throat, is trimmed with a fulness of the same material from the top to the bottom; it is clasped in folds from distance to distance by bands of the same material. Demi-large sleeve descending to the wrist, and trimmed en mancheron with two biais set on with a little fulness. Lace ruffle. Five biais, of different widths, decorate the skirt. Chapeau of fawn-coloured crape, arranged in bands lightly embroidered; it is a moderately open shape, trimmed with ribbon to correspond, and two round green and white feathers. White China crape scarf, embroidered and trimmed with fringe.

HALF-LENGTH FIGURES.

No. 3. EVENING DRESS.-Pink tarlatane robe, a low corsage, round at top, and moderately pointed at the bottom; it is trimmed with a deep berthe of the same disposed in folds, and terminated by a row of lace; it is sufficiently deep to cover the short tight sleeve. Breastknot of pink ribbon. The hair disposed in soft bands at the sides, and a twisted knot behind, is ornamented with a tuft of roses panaches and a gerbe of foliage.

No. 4. MORNING VISITING DRESS.-Lilac taffeta robe: Corsage Amazone, very open on the bosom, and trimmed with a broad lappel, edged with a double row of festooned trimming. Demi-long sleeve, of the half Venetian form, similarly edged. Cambric under sleeve, arranged in bouillons; lace ruffle. Cambric chemisette, made quite high, embroidered and trimmed with lace round the top. White crape chapeau, a small round open shape; the interior decorated with flowers; the exterior with a long white feather.

No. 5. DEMI-TOILETTE.-Green taffeta open robe over a muslin round one; the latter is made with a low square corsage; the front beautifully embroidered, as is also the border of the skirt. The corsage is half high at the back, open nearly to the bottom of the waist, and trimmed with a lappel terminating at the point of the corsage; it is edged with lace. Long tight sleeves; lace ruffles. The sides of the skirt are trimmed with robings, edged, as are also the cuffs, with lace. Rice straw chapeau, an oval shape; the interior trimmed with green brides; the exterior with a wreath of moss roses.

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