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 VARIETIES

FOR

THE

MONTH.

BY EMILY II. MAY.

THERE are very many new things, this month, for the winter promises to be quite gay. We give selections of a few of these novelties. The first is a beautiful body with braces in velvet, one of the latest affairs that have come out in Paris: it is said the empress was the first lady for whom one was made; and it would be especially becoming to persons of similar style and complexion. It has the advantage, also, of being easily made. Any lady, with taste and skill, can copy it, without the aid of a mantua-maker. The next is a white cashmere jacket, braided in black. The braiding pattern, given in our embellishment, need not be followed, necessarily. Any other pattern, which may be preferred, or may be ready at hand, would do as well. We are constantly giving new patterns for braiding, in

order that our subscribers may use them for 7 this and similar purposes. On certain styles of figures, this jacket is pre-eminently handsome. Our third illustration is an Italian head-dress ; something entirely new, and very charming. This graceful affair has created quite a sensation in London and Paris, and is being introduced, with the greatest success, in the fashionable circles of Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. It has a picturesque air, as will be seen, which lowy form it is particularly pretty. It has a very few similar articles attain. On a tall, wil- careless, artistic effect on such persons, as if a 74