EVENING DRESS.-Organdy robe, over white pou de Soie, the corsage is made low, pointed at bottom, and tight to the shape; the top is trimmed with a round lappel, finished by a ruche. Short tight sleeves terminated by ruches. The skirt is encircled by a single flounce, finished round the border by a biais of pou de Soie; it ascends a little in the drapery stile on one side, and terminates in a point to which a sprig of exotics is attached. A second sprig is placed considerably higher up-Coiffure à la Vierge. The front hair is disposed in bands, and the hind is open bows, which are placed low and far back. A wreath of flowers encircles the bows, and a few sprigs issue from them. A fancy jewellery ferronière completes the coiffeur. Necklace and bracelets fancy jewellery.

REMARKS ON THE PREVAILING LONDON FASHIONS.

Simplicity is the order of the day: our élégantes, weary of splendour, seek new attractions in a light and elegant neglige, but our fair readers must not imagine that this neglige, so simple in appearance, is not of a costly kind: on the contrary, it is very much so, as we shall convince them by an enumeration of the elegant novelties now preparing for our fashionable watering-places.

We may cite, as the most decidedly fashionable hats, those of the shepherdess form, they are of fine Italian straw, of the same shape as they are sent over, that is with low crowns and immense large round brims; the interior of the brim is trimmed just over the forehead with a small wreath of flowers; the brides are passed under the brim, so as to leave it standing quite out from the face, and descending very low upon the back of the neck, so as to cover a great part of it. The crowns are always trimmed with flowers, honeysuckles, fruit blossoms of various kinds, heath blossoms, and several other sorts of wild flowers, are all in request. Some are disposed in wreaths, from one side of which a gerbe falls upon the brim. Others are arranged in bouquets, which also droop upon the brim; the ribbons employed are always of a very rich kind. The hat is placed very far back upon the head, and the brides may be either tied under the chin, or left floating over the neck, at the pleasure of the wearer.

Drawn bonnets retain their vogue, that is to say those of

the transparent kind; for at present we see scarcely any others in half dress. They are made either in crape or tulle, with a ruche at the edge of the brim, and a bouquet of field flowers placed on one side of the crown, in such a manner that it droops upon the brim, The ribbons employed for these bonnets are always white, the centre plain, but the border figured, and some finished by a very rich fringe. We have seen also some tulle bonnets with the edge of the brim finished by a certain veil instead of a ruche. Some were lined with pink gauze, others had the casings drawn by pink ribbons.

Mantelets are for the moment laid aside, particularly those of black pou de Soie, they are succeeded by mantillons, which are only a smaller kind of mantelet: these are made of either black or white lace, or muslin, if the latter is employed it is richly embroidered and trimined with lace. Fichus à la paysanne of the material of the dress are also in considerable vogue, and, as white muslin dresses are very fashionable, these fichus from their expensive embroidery, and the lace that trims them are frequently very costly.

Clear printed muslins, foulards, and cachemiriennes d'été, are all in favour for morning-dress, and are sometimes adopted in demi toilette. The grounds are always white, and the patterns to be fashionable must be simple, and not shewy; thus what is termed a shower of hail, dead stripes, or a ground figured in very small patterns, are the only ones fashionable for plain morning dress. Bouquets and stripes are both adopted in half dress; the former are very light, of delicate colours, and at considerable distances from each other. The prettiest novelty among the stripes is an organdy, a white ground with a dead white stripe, with the narrowest possible sky-blue cord at each edge. Simple as this pattern appears in description, the effect is strikingly pretty and original. We have seen several peignoirs, trimmed with lace, composed of this material, and also some half dress robes trimmed with flounces.

We have, at present, no decided change to announce in the form of robes, but a great deal is talked of; skirts, it is now positively said, will be considerably reduced in width in the ensuing season; it is indeed time that they were, for the manner in which they are at present trimmed, added to their

preposterous width, renders them excessively ungraceful. We have seen some finished with a single flounce of more than a quarter of a yard deep, and set on very full; and others trimmed with three flounces which reached above the knee. Nothing can be more ungraceful than this stile of trimming, which however, at this moment, is the most fashionable for robes. The pelisse and the peignoirs form are in favour, both in morning and balf dress. Tight sleeves are expected to go entirely out of fashion, and this seems highly probable, since their number diminishes daily; indeed none are now made absolutely tight, for all have the upper part of the arm rendered full by some kind or other of trimming; a good many are made moderately full, from a little below the shoulder to the wrist, the fulness being surmounted at the top by one or two bouillons, but the most decided novelty of the month, if that can be called a novelty, which in fact is only a variation, is a new kind of manche à volans, the flounces being set on below the shoulder fall very deep upon the arm in forming a sabot; that is to say, they are much longer before than behind. Fashionable colours are the light shades of rose, blue and yellow, lilac, apple, and emerald green, pousiere, and some neutral tints.

FOREIGN FASHIONS AND NOVELTIES.

EVENING DRESS.-Dove coloured tulle robe over a satin under-dress to correspond; the corsage is made tight to the shape, pointed at bottom, and low and square at the top, which is trimmed with a wreath composed of red and purple grapes with their foliage. Short sleeves, tight at the top, but finished by a double bouillon of a new shape, which is formed by a wreath en suite. The skirt is looped on each side of the front by a full gerbe of grape with their foliage. The hair dressed low at the back of the head, and in full ringlets at the sides, is ornamented with a quierland chaperon composed of grapes, vine leaves, and gold beads.

DINNER DRESS.-Pink figured gros de Naples robe, the border is trimmed with a flounce which is arranged in a suc cession of draperies by loops of ribbon of a brighter hue, it is headed by a rouleau of ribbon ornamented with a knot and ends on one side. The corsage tight to the shape, and