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 sleeves; muslin fichu and mob cap; pocket outside dress; high-heeled shoes with buckles; black silk stockings.

DOLLY VARDEN (Barnaby Rudge). Short quilted skirt; bodice and bunched-up tunic of flowered chintz, the bodice low and laced across; a muslin kerchief inside; sleeves to elbow with frill; hair not powdered; straw hat with cherry-coloured ribbons, or muslin cap; high-heeled shoes and bows; coloured stockings; mittens. Pretty chintz should be selected.

DOMINO, A. Worn at masque balls and sometimes as fancy dress. It is made in satin, silk, and brocade, or of plain cotton in the Princess shape, having often a Watteau plait with cape and slender-pointed hood and wide sleeves. It should be large and long enough to slip over the dress easily, and hide it completely. The black are usually trimmed with a colour, such as a thick ruching down the front and round the bell-shaped sleeves, and are often piped with a colour and lined with the same. The lighter tones sometimes edged with swansdown.

DOMINOES. Sacque of black satin, the square bodice trimmed with cardboard dominoes, the skirt draped with larger ones, over a black and white petticoat; hair powdered, toque studded with dominoes, black feathers on one side, white aigrette on the other; the fan bearing the wearer's name or monogram in dominoes; the same painted on gloves; shoes trimmed with them to correspond; enamel dominoes for necklace and earrings; a domino embroidered on one corner of the handkerchief.

DOMINOES, BOX OF. Short black satin skirt, edged with large white satin ruche, lined with black, and studded with pompons of black silk; a plastron of white satin in front from waist to hem, with rounds of black velvet appliqued to represent double 6; plastron crossed with double row of gold braid; paniers of black satin edged with black pompons over kiltings of white satin, and caught up with double 5 dominoes intermixed with ostrich feathers. The dominoes made like the plastron, smaller, and lined with card-board; low black satin bodice, the basque formed of dominoes, top trimmed with lace and gold cord; shoulder knots of ribbon and feathers; powdered hair; diamonds and