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THE TOILET.

(Specially from Paris.)

FIRST FIGURE.-COUNTRY TOILETS.White foulard dress, scolloped at the edge of the skirt, and trimmed with a ponceau silk fluting. The front of the skirt has a fluting of the same description, set on en tablier. Figaro jacket, ornamented in the same way. The sleeves consist only of a foulard jockey, bordered en suite. Muslin under-body in plaits, separated by bands of linen. Gros-grain waistband, Chantilly black lace shawl. Fanchon bonnet, made of tulle, and trimmed with a wreath of ponceau geranium.

SECOND FIGURE.-Linos dress with two skirts the first is trimmed with two or three rows of black velvet, edged with narrow lace; the second skirt is trimmed with tabs. Underbody with swiss plaits, Bernese waistband. Linos outer-jacket made almost tight. This garment, like the dress, is trimmed with black velvet, edged with lace; velvet waistband fastened with a handsome steel buckle. Hair dressed à la jeune, and intermixed with rows of beads.

I have remarked another very pretty walking dress, composed of toile de l'Inde of a soft flaxcoloured grey. The bottom of the skirt is cut into deep dents de loup, under which is mounted, in great plaits a flounce of groseille foulard, which shows between each indentation, on which falls a knot of black taffetas bordered with narrow black lace.

A Figaro jacket, cut in little dents, is worn over a chemisette either of groseille foulard, or of very fine white Nansook, ornamented

before and behind with three bands of linen, embroidered in black or groseille sontache. With this chemisette a groseille waistband bordered with black lace is worn. With the groseille chemisette, the waistband should be of the material of the skirt.

The outer garment to be worn with this demitoilet is of the half-fitting form, of the same stuff as the dress, cut all round in dents de loup, bordered with groscille ribbon No. 5. The bottom of the sleeves, which are nearly tight, are finished with the same ornament, and have at the top a jockey indented and trimmed in the same way. Head-dress a little black hat of English straw, with a small white and black wing in the middle. Another robe is of maizecoloured mohair, garnished at the bottom with a Greek design, traced with a double bias of Mexican blue silk; between these biases on a plain band of silk a row of blue buttons, having in the centre of each a little white pearl.

A little corselet of the materal is worn with this skirt, which is trimmed with the same ornament. The corselet is held together by epaulets cut in the Greek pattern, and falling as a sort of sleeve over the under-body, which is composed of Swiss plaits, on each of these plaits a narrow blue velvet.

The assorted envelope is of the same material as the robe, very oval behind, and cut at the edge a petites greques.

The round hat worn with this toilet is bowl shaped, with a flat rim, above which is rolled a green veil, fastened in its place by a swallow.

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