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Vol. II.

FASHIONS FOR NOVEMBER.

WE present our readers with three very beautiful styles for dress suited to the season, and which have been universally admired. In our next number we shall present full winter costumes.

Fig. 1.-A PROMENADE DRESS of shaded Pekin satin, the jupe full and handsome, made perfectly plain ; half high body setting close to the figure ; tight, long sleeves ; manchettes à la Puritan ; camail in white cachemire, ornamented with a fancy gympe work round the border ; a splendid deep fringe decorates the edge. The small pointed collar finished with a narrow fringe to match. A small nœud of silk cord and tassels is placed on the point of the back of the collar, as well as down the fronts. A fall of rich white lace ornaments the top of this splendid camail. Bonnet of straw, the interior decorated with a shaded rûche of tulle running round the edge of the front. A large chou, with two ends of shaded orange-colored ribbon is placed on the right of the crown. Curtain and brides of the same. This dress is a very appropriate one for the season of the year-usually appearing at this time- and called, from its bright skies and balmy airs, the Indian summer.

Fig. 2.-A PROMENADE DRESS of striped barége of two shades of Pomona green, the body and sleeves perfectly plain ; manchettes of Mechlin lace ; Crispin of taffetas of a rich deep lilac, trimmed all round with a deep white lace, headed with a rûche of lilac ribbon of a moderate width ; the square collar ornamented to match. A nœud of silk cord, from which depends two long tassels is placed at the bottom of each arm hole, which are also beautifully embroidered all round, as well as the Crispin, the whole doublee'd with white silk. Bonnet of the capote form the brim ornamented with three narrow folds ; the crown and interior decorated with wreaths of purple convolvulus.

Fig. 3.-A WALKING DRESS of great beauty. It is needless to remark that the materials of all these dresses may be altered, at the taste of the wearer. And in passing we must call attention to the very elegant cap represented in No. 6. The cap is à la Hollandaise, formed of white tulle, surrounded with a light broad white lace, double at the ears ; a twist of ribbon striped green and white, is placed round the caul, attached on the outside with a roseatte and two ends of the same, the left side decorated with a splendid rose nude pink and white. Our late advices from London and Paris contain patterns of two very distingué looking costumes, one of them composed of poult de soie, the color tourterelle ; the jupe ornamented with two pinked rûches, placed at a great distance one from the other ; the corsage tight and very low, à pointe arrondie ; the sleeves perfectly plain. Camail of black lace, ornamented all around with a double row of bouillonnées trimming in black satin. The other dress of a beautitul sea green, trimmed en tablier, with an embroidery in soutache, the corsage half high, and fitting tight to the figure ; the waist d pointe, and rather lengthened plain sleeves ; the camail formed of four rows of English lace, each row separated with a small rûche of pink taffetas ribbon. Nothing can equal the rage for les robes soutachées, particularly since this pretty style of work has been so much improved upon and simplified. We now see it upon all sorts of materials, such as mousselines laine bazinées, worked in alternate colors of white and orange thread ; also cloths of the Gange color of the aloes, and a hundred other descriptions of stuffs. This style of trimming is, however, only used for the ornamenting of morning costumes. An evening dress of great beauty is of blue Pekin silk, the jupe very full, and trimmed down the left side with three broad folds of either the same or arcophane, the third fold being decorated with six choux or roscattes of the same material as the dress ; low corsage, the upper part formed of folds caught in the centre of the back, and on the shoulders with a narrow band, the folds being brought down into the waist in front and crossed ; the centre of the bust ornamented with a roseatte ; short tight sleeves, having a double frilling of