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THE TOILET.
(Specially from Paris.)

FIRST FIGURE.-Light Havanna silk dress, made with two skirts. Cambric under-body, with linen collar and cuffs: this is made with fixed plaits, behind and before. Bonnet of puffed crape and tulle, alternating with a silk tress. Behind, two silk tresses fall on the hair. At the edge of the front, a narrow black lace: on the top, a cluster of small feathers, matching the colour of the bonnet. Tight-fitting jacket of the same material as the dress.

soie, ornamented at the bottom of the skirt by SECOND FIGURE.-Robe of green pou de three bias-pieces. Tight body, with a short round tail behind. Close-fitting sleeves. Collar, and cuffs of under-sleeves formed of bars of linen, embroidered in satin-stitch. Puffed white tulle bonnet. Inside, a snow of tulle, placed between two rolls of velvet. Long tulle veil at the side. An Indian Cashmere shawl completes this dress.

Many other intermediate toilets offer themselves for the season. I have seen one of violet-coloured pou de soie, with two skirts, the one looped up with trimming above the other. The body is made with lappets, of quite twelve inches in depth, and is ornamented in front with broad velvet facings. Tulle bonnet, presenting puffings separated by cordons of violets. Inside, a velvet bandeau, ornamented with pearl stars. This is an exceedingly elegant toilet.

sleeves to match. Deep waistband of gros-grain blue silk.

In bonnets the form Empire is still worn; but the last shape is the Pamela, which is bordered all round by a cordon of violets. Another is of white tulle, spotted with black, and ornamented at the summit of the crown by a little coronet of black velvet daisies, with grass blades of jet-in fact we do not know what to invent or adopt by way of ornamentation.

nished with chainettes of gold, retaining a A lovely little Fanchon bonnet, for the theatre lies before me, composed of white tulle, garmedallion of fine pearls. In the interior, foliage of emerald-green velvet, and a bandeau of imperial white velvet, covered with gold This model falls back very much from the head. chainettes fastening three pearl medallions.

Robes are cut more than ever near the form of a basquin, altogether plain, and without plaits in front. On some of them a passementerie, embroidery, or other ornament, traces the contour of a tunic. Beginning at the back, it is carried over the shoulders, down each side of the corsage to the skirt, where it descends en tabliere, and is carried round the bottom.

Upon other robes the same sort of trimming commences at the waist, and often consists of a similar material to the dress, but of a brighter shade of colour. When (as is sometimes the case) the whole front breadth, or apron, is of a more trenchant shade than the dress, the sleeves should be of the same tint, and the high body should be accompanied by a corslet, cut square before, of the same bright shade.

Foulards are of course in vogue. I have remarked one made in the Princess style. The body and sleeves, which are tight, are trimmed with lozanges of blue silk: the latter with one at top and bottom. Linen collar, and under-favourite Spring Confections.

Short paletots, with large buttons, are the

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