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 SERPOLETTE (Les Cloches de Corneville). Grey-blue stockings, and shoes with brown heels; short grey cashmere skirt with box-plaiting round, half a yard deep; tunic, forming puff and ends at back, buttoning on to close-fitting cuirass bodice; plain linen fichu, or bib with a point in front; sleeves to elbow with cuffs; white linen cap with blue ribbon band and bow. Second dress, pink brocade long skirt with cuirass; satin hat with three white feathers.

SERVIAN PEASANT. Loose full skirt; Garibaldi bodice, with full sleeves to wrist; belt of black leather; gaily striped apron; embroidery at throat; hair plaited with coloured ribbons.

SERVING MAID (Elizabethan Period). Short stuff gown, fawn colour; made with pointed bodice; tight sleeves with stuffed epaulettes; ruff at throat; muslin cap; bag hanging at side. (See Plate XI., Fig. 43.)

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. (See, &c.) Morning costume of French lady in XVIIth century: Cardinal petticoat; upper skirt of the same, turned back with dark green: white apron; cape and cap trimmed with lace; red stockings and black shoes.

SHEPHERDESS. (See ) Felt hat, flowers on one side and under the brim; crook; low square bodice filled in with muslin; black velvet band round neck; braces and stomacher; muslin sleeves to wrist; short skirt of pink and white striped silk; bodice cut in tabs. Shepherdess Dress of the Fifteenth Century. For a dark or stout lady. Long blue woollen skirt and sleeves, over which a red tunic to below the knees, and bell sleeves of the same colour; the upper dress is confined by a ceinture, in the shape of a loose bag, deep on one side and narrow like a band on the other; head-dress of blue, white, or red linen or merino, folded across the head and left to hang rather deep about the neck and ears; crook. The following are pretty renderings of the character:—White tulle; short skirts, made with narrow flounces and bows of ribbon; sky-blue tunic, trimmed with pink; blue bodice, with pink plastron; blue saucer-shaped hat with roses and long pink ribbons; blue shoes with pink rosettes. Or, petticoat of blue and white Chambery gauze; bodice and tunic of amber satin trimmed with blue. Or, a cerise brocaded satin skirt, and tunic of pale blue satin. Watteau Shepherdess consists of a