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Views, Miss Gouldsmith's Land- || gracing the arts by their direct contributions, and we regret that we have not room this month to enter more minutely into the recapitulation of their merits.

scapes, and several others by fair votaries of art, maintain their deserved reputation. It is pleasing to see ladies of taste and intelligence

FASHIONS.

LONDON FASHIONS.

MORNING DRESS.

SHADED striped silk dress of gros de Naples; the corsage à la blouse; the fulness confined at the top with three satin rouleaus, equidistant. Long easy sleeve, finished at the wrist with rouleaus of purple and aurora, or orange colour; the upper sleeve very full, and intersected with satin rouleaus, as at the wrist. The skirt touches the ground behind, and is finished with two satin rouleaus, of the darkest shades of each colour; above is an ornamented crescent, composed of three semicircular bands; the points or horns united by a satin star, and placed alternately up and down. Elizabethan ruff of very fine tulle, worked muslin ruffles, cornette or cottage cap of tulle; border of double tulle, disposed in bouffants by alternate rouleaus of aurora and purple satin; one side has a double row of bouffants and a quilling of tulle behind: the strings are of broad figured gauze ribbon, cross under the chin, and tie at the top in the front of the cap.

and plain, simply ornamented round the bust with a wheel trimming of the same colour in satin and gauze, composed of ornamented rings placed at equal distances on a circular satin wadded stem or rouleau. The corsage is rather long, and set in a band with satin corded edges, and fastened behind with a rosette to correspond. Tucker of fine blond, drawn at top with a silken thread. Short full sleeve, with perpendicular rows of wheel trimming. The skirt is decorated with the same trimming, only much larger, and, with the wadded satin hem at the bottom, gives weight and grace to the folds of the drapery. The hair is arranged in one row of large regular curls; and two long yellow ostrich feathers, tipped with ponceau, are placed on the right side, and bend over the head. Necklace, ear-rings, and bracelets of topaz and turquoise. Embroidered lace scarf with vandyke ends; white kid gloves; white satin shoes.

The hair parted GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON FASHION

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front, lately so prevalent: the latter, however, is still frequently adopted in morning costume by many élégantes.

end of March. One is a mantle of pale cinnamon-coloured cloth, made moderately wide, and about half a quarter shorter than the dress: it is lined with bright rose-coloured velours épingle, and finished round the edge by four very narrow folds of the same material: the pelerine, which is round and rather large, is edged to correspond, as is also the collar; the latter is made in the demi-pelerine style. This mantle is a very elegant and appropriate walk-posed in deep festoons, the hollow ing envelope.

Merino, of the very fine and thin kind, so much worn in France, is now in great favour with us for high dresses in carriage costume. We have seen some of these gowns trimmed with three broad wadded satin tucks, each edged with a flat trimming in hard silk. They are dis

of each festoon being filled with a satin star edged with velvet.

Poplin high dresses, trimmed with broad bands of velvet, through which are drawn satin puffs, of the crescent form, are also a good deal worn carriage dress.

The other novelty is a pelisse of grass-green levantine, trimmed with pluche de soie of a darker shade, intermixed with satin, to correspond with the pelisse. A broad band of pluche de soie goes round the bot-in tom of the skirt; it is surmounted by a row of acorns, formed of intermingled folds of satin and pluche de soie. The pelisse fastens up the front by hooks and eyes, and is ornamented with a single row of acorns. The bust of the corsage is without ornament; the back full.

The only novelty that we have remarked in head-dresses is a bonnet of white velours épingle; the inside of the brim is entirely covered with broad blond lace disposed in flutings, and projecting about an inch from the brim: this edging of lace is surThe cein-mounted by a scolloped band of shaded pink velvet. The brim is in the Mary Stuart style, but smaller than they are generally worn; low oval crown, ornamented with knots of shaded pink velvet and plumes of down feathers tipped with pink; rich white gros de Naples strings.

ture is of pluche de soie edged with satin, and fastened by a gold clasp, in the form of two hands interlaced. Long sleeve, of an easy width, simply finished by a bias band of pluche: full epaulette, arranged in the form of an acorn, and composed of an intermixture of satin and pluche de soie. The collar is shallow, stands out from the neck, and partially turns

over.

Black bonnets are still fashionable in promenade dress, but not so much so as those that correspond in colour with the mantle or pelisse. They are now of an extremely becoming size; the Mary Stuart brim seems more in favour than the close cottage

Morning dresses are now very generally made without collars, and in many instances not quite up to the throat: they are worn with collarettes of worked muslin, or of our imitation of foreign lace. Sometimes a demi-fichu with a deep frill, which falls over, is substituted for a collarette. An English lace cornette or demi-cornette, of a simple and becoming form, is an indispensable ap

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