EVENING DRESSES.

(Sitting Figure.)

A printed satin robe, white ground, and pattern in vivid colours of small sprigs in winding columns, and large single flowers in compartments. The corsage is cut very low and square on the back and front of the bust, but rather higher on the shoulder than they are generally made; it sits close to the shape, terminates in a peak before, and is trimmed round the top with a single row of narrow blond lace laid on flat. Blond lace long sleeves of the usual size at top, and moderately full from the elbow to the wrist; they are made open from the bend of the arm, but are attached in three places by gold filagree buttons, and surmounted by mancherons of broad blond lace. The hair parted on the forehead, is arranged on each side in a plaited band, which is doubled and hangs low. The hind-hair, also arranged in a braid, is twined round the summit of the head. Gold ear-rings, neck-chain, and bracelets. White kid gloves; white satin slippers.

(Standing Figure.)

The robe is of pale rose-coloured mousseline de sne over gros de Naples to correspond. A low corsage sitting close to the shape at the upper part, but with a little fulness at the bottom of the waist; it is trimmed round the bust with a blond lace ruche. Short under sleeve of white gros de Naples, with one of blond lace of the Marino Faliero form over it; a part of the fulness of the latter is confined by a gold agraffe on the shoulder. Armlets and ceinture of gold net, with gold clasps. The hair is parted on the forehead and turned up behind; the ends form a cluster of curls. A band of fancy jewellery and bunches of gold wheat complete the coiffure. Neck-lace and ear-rings gold and nicolos. White silk net gloves. White gros de Naples slippers of the sandal form.

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON FASHIONS AND

DRESS.

The out-door toilettes most in request for our fashionable watering places, are in a great degree those of last month. Some novelties, however, have been introduced; one of the prettiest is an undress bonnet of plain clear India muslin, lined with coloured sarsenet. The brim and crown are both drawn, the drawings put rather closer than any we have yet seen. The former is oval, the edge bordered with narrow lace set on with a little fulness. The curtain at the back of the crown, and the brides, are bordered with lace to correspond, and a muslin rosette placed on one side of the crown is also edged with it. A few half-season hats of marron poux de soie have already appeared; they are trimmed either with a single white ostrich feather tipped with marron, or else with three roses of three different colours, one white, the second marron, the third green. Hats continue to be placed very far back upon the head, the crowns are neither so high nor tending so much to a point as those of last month. The brims of bonnets are now generally made short, and close at the sides of the face. Neither hats nor bonnets have the interior of the brim ornamented in general, but a cap is usually worn with either, the trimming of which being en ruche, renders other accessories unnecessary.

Peignoirs of jaconot muslin, or French cambric embroidered down the front on each side, and worn with mantelets of the same material, also embroidered, are considered most elegant in morning dress; those of printed muslin with pelerine fichus are fashionable, but less in request. The prettiest morning caps are of tulle or Indian muslin, trimmed in front à la Marie Stuart. The trimming composed of two or three rows of tulle or lace forms a ruche, which descends in a rounded point in the centre of the forehead,

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