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 bodice, open at neck, with sailor collar; red silk handkerchief about the head, with gold fringe; a creel with fish.

VERNON, DOROTHY, (See ) Grin ball costume; satin skirt trimmed with lace; pointed bodice and bunched-up tunic of brocade, with abundant trimming of lace.

VESTAL VIRGIN. Swathed in white from head to foot. Dress made after classic fashion. Tunic and peplum of white cashmere, draped à la Greque; gold bands in the hair.

VICAR OF WAKEFIELD AND FAMILY. (See )

VIERLANDER (Hamburg Flower-girl). Scarlet petticoat bordered with green, with many gatherings at the waist; black apron; black bodice, one mass of embroidery, gold, silver, and colours in front; white chemisette; curious straw hat, with a circular trough round the crown; and at the back of the head a black leather bow, the ends reaching to the waist; basket of flowers in hand. (See )

VIEILLEUSE. Blue stockings, red short skirt and cap; black velvet bodice over white, with white stomacher having bands of red and black velvet across.

VIGO, WOMEN OF, Green stuff short skirt, bordered with red, which is carried up the side; the low bodice is blue, showing a red under-bodice; full linen chemisette to the throat; coral necklace and earrings; hair turned back from the face, and in a coil at the back.

VILLAGE GIRL (Colette, in La Cruche Cassée). Skirt of white faille striped with blue, and edged with a deep box-plaited flounce; bodice and tunic of striped blue and white gauze; a pointed waistcoat of blue beneath; the polonaise forms a close-fitting bodice with deep-pointed basque at the side; it fastens in the front of the heart-shaped opening coming over the waistcoat, and is bordered with plaiting à la vieille, while the back describes a puff; the sleeves come to the elbow; a basket is carried on the arm; a blue ribbon and a rose in the hair.

VIOLA (Twelfth Night). As a page in trunk hose; Elizabethan coat and ruff; epaulettes formed of satin loops; a sword with bows and rosettes.