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. and re-united with those on the body, which is made high ; plain sleeves.

MATERIALS.- Light materials for summer dresses are composed of batistes de Siam, gauzes from Java, impe- | rial baréges, such as those of Aldudes and Baygorry, also the Pekins nacrés, the Pekins Pompadour, shaded moires, foulards, barege, and mousseline cachmeire, with its beautiful designs, Alhambra, renaissance and étrusques.

LES ROBES VICTORIA.-This is one of the greatest novelties of the season in London. The sleeves are made perfectly plain, the skirt very long, and the corsage cut in a becoming shape, setting close to the figure, and yet allowing of ease and liberty to all the movements. A very delicate fancy silk trimming of well-assorted colors, and forming an exquisite design, is placed over each of the large and principal seams, giving it a very new and becoming effect. These dresses are each calculated to show a good figure off to the greatest advantage. THE MONTESPAN SCARFS are and have been in great request ; they are composed of taffetas glacé, having three rows of frilling round the back, shaped to the form of the waist ; others bearing the same name, are made in organdie, lined with pink gauze, and festooned with pink silk forming a tufted heading : these are especially adapted for a youthful slim figure. PELERINES have been much worn, and will continue to be worn during the summer months. They are being made very large, and sometimes they are double, the upper one being much smaller than the under. LES SCHALLS CRISPINS .-These elegant summer wraps are of a most graceful form, and in all colors ; for instance, one in Parma violet, encircled with a broad black lace, surmounted with a heading of lace bouillion, over which is a second Crispin in plain lace, bordered with bouillions, they are merely attached together at the top round the neck and the openings, which allow of the arms passing through. THE CAMAIL SCARFS have become very fashionable ; they are made of an entire new form, in India muslin, surrounded with a bouillion trimming, through which is passed a rouleau of ribbon, having a rich border of lace. The ordinary Camail are immensely inconvenient, and not very becoming, owing to their not showing the form of the waist. The scarf now invented has all the appearance of the camail upon the shoulders, the difference being that the inside is turned over, rendering it sufficiently narrow to admit of the ceinture being partly seen. COMBS.-The Josephine combs are being much worn ; they form a very pretty finish to the coiffure, particularly when the hair is interspersed with flowers ; field flowers are becoming great favorites. PARASOLS are commencing to be worn much larger,

with immense long canes ; they are mostly covered with glacé silk. BRACELETS.-A very pretty fantasie has just been invented for the ornamenting of the short gloves ; it is merely bracelets of fancy gold and silver cord, interspersed with different colors, or in small coral with bows and tassels placed at the side ; sometimes a jewel is introduced in the centre of them ; they are mostly attached with a fancy button. COLLARS. The collar chevaliers, medicis and puritains are all the rage. Lace cardinals are now arrived at their greatest perfection, particularly when made in points Louis XIV. , in Brussels applications ; they are mostly lined in rose or lilac ; but, perhaps, the most elegant and recherché, are those made in black lace, and lined in the same manner. These are the choicest fashions of the month, and with them we shall close our account of the summer costume. In September, it is true, light dresses will continue to be worn, and we may give one or two representations of such styles ; but we shall unite with them the costumes more immediately appropriate for autumn.

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