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 of pink brocade, richly trimmed with the same lace as skirt and pompon roses; tight elbow-sleeves, with falling lace and pompon roses; hair dressed high and powdered; aigrette of pink roses and a mass of most magnificent diamonds and pearle, which were also profusely scattered over the body and other parts of this beautiful costume.

MARIE DE MEDICIS (2nd Wife, Henri Quatre). Wears full skirt of rich brocade, just touching gound, with or without distinct embroidered jewelled front; pointed bodice; stomacher jewelled and embroidered; large upstanding ruff coming from back of shoulder; folds of muslin and lace laid on top of bodice, meeting in front with brooch; sleeves to wrist in graduated horizontal puffs, cuffs of lace; hair turned back from face over cushion; hair powdered, and covered with gold dust. Or peach satin, or red velvet with silver tissue, or gold brocade.

MARIE, LA, DE VILLAGE. Short white silk skirt, trimmed with blue and orange bows; blue satin apron trimmed with guipure lace; white lace cap fastened with gold pins.

MARIE STUART (when wife of Francis II., King of France). Costume worn by the beautiful Countess of Bective at her own Fancy Ball, 1877: satin dress, front of gold brocade covered with jewels, high bodice jewelled, jewelled ruff, sleeves with puffings at the shoulders of gold brocade and red velvet; train of ruby velvet bordered with ermine, embroidered with fleurs-de-lis, &c.; white satin pointed cap of the Marie Stuart form, covered with jewels. The Princess of Wales, as Mary Stuart, at the Waverley Ball, wore a petticoat of cloth of gold embroidered with pearls, a dress of ruby velvet with point-lace, the bodice made with a satin habit-shirt quilted with pearls; the sleeves with a puff at the shoulders coming to the wrist; the bodice ruby velvet, the stomacher worked with precious stones; head-dress of ruby velvet studded with diamonds and pearls; veil of lisse, jewelled girdle, and fine parure of jewels. (See Plate VIIL, Fig. 29.) As Schiller's heroine, Marie Stuart wears white. As Mary Queen of Scots, she is generally represented in black velvet and white satin. The velvet robe opens straight down over the satin petticoat, at a little distance from the centre; the velvet bodice is a low square over a satin quilted habit-shirt; the sleeves have one puff at top, and are straight to the