English Fashions and Novelties. MORNING DRESS. Or plaid Swiss gingham, fastened down the side with bows of green riband. Collar of French lawn, trimmed with a Mechlin edging. A simple cap of worked lawn, with full double border of Mechlin lace, under which the hair is arranged in bands and tied with pink riband. EVENING DRESS. Or mulberry velvet, with long sleeves of blonde appliquee, full chemisette of blonde. The hair is fastened with an elegant carved comb. Bandeau and ear-rings of gold. Scarf of tulle, the ends of which are worked in gold, and gold fringe. OBSERVATIONS ON FASHIONS AND DRESS. PELISSES begin to be very much adopted in car riage dress. Several of those lately made are of rich plain satin, with a double pelerine trimmed with sable; the skirt, which fastens on one side, is trimmed round the border with a broad band of sable; a similar band ornaments the side on | riband, from each of which gold aguillettes issue. Rouleaus of curled ostrich feathers, of the color of the dress, are also expected to be in vogue; they will be large, for the borders of dresses, but small for corsages. Some pretty dinner-dresses are of satin à mille raies, either black or brown, on a light grey ground. The corsage is half high, made rather long, a little rounded in front, and trimmed with a tulle drapery, in very small flat plaits. The sleeve is tight round the arm-hole, and about halfway to the elbow. An excessively full sleeve, á "Imbecille, descends from thence to the wrist; it is of tulle, the fulness looped at the bend of the arm by a knot of riband, and the shoulder ornamented by a naud de page. A beautiful new material called mousseline d'Aboukir, has just appeared for ball-dresses; it is composed of Cashmere wool, and is exquisitely soft and fine; the pattern is a kind of mosaic, in which various colors are intermingled with gold foliage. This material is employed also for turbans; those of the Arab form are now coming much into favor; a good many are ornamented with bracelets of diamonds or which the pelisse fastens. Short mantles, of the colored gems. We may cite among the most Spanish form, lined and trimmed with fur, are generally becoming head-dresses, hats with small expected to be very fashionable in carriage-dress. round brims a little turned up, encircling a little Several of the most novel morning bonnets are the face, and ornamented with a single drooping composed of soot-colored velvets; some have the feather. A row of pearls round the forehead is a crown trimmed with plain satin ribands to corres- favorite accessory, and adds much to the elegance pond; others have a broad band of folded satin of a head-dress of this kind. Some of these hats riband, crossed in front, and descending to form are ornainented with two tails of Birds of Paradise the brides; a tight sprig of velvet flowers, which instead of a feather; one of the prettiest of this droops a little forward, is inserted in the band. The interior of the brim may be adorned either with small rose or blue flowers, or else a single rose without foliage, or a pompon of blue or rose riband may be placed on each side. Feathers are the only ornaments employed for half-dress hats, and we have never seen so great a variety of them. Besides maraboo and ostrich feathers, we see those of the peacock, the paroquet, and the splendid plumage of the Bird of Paradise, all in requisition for half-dress hats. Those of maroon and purple velvet appear to be most in request. Evening dresses will be pretty closely copied from the modes of our Charles the Second, William and Mary, and George the First's day. Thus the waists will be, as we mentioned last month, a more formal length, the corsages in some instances peaked in front, but more frequently descending somewhat in the form of a scallop, and the short sleeves decidedly reduced in size. We have indeed, already seen some made close to the arms, but rendered large by gauze berrillons or coques of riband, which entirely cover them. A still prettier style of sleeve is that composed of three or four rows of blonde disposed in the form of a shell. Skirts will not diminish in width; they are now quite as ample as those introduced by Mary the Second, on her return from Holland. They have increased in length; we have seen some that only touch, but even trail a little on the ground, thus they are at once too long and too short to be graceful. latter kind of a hat of white rep velvet trimmed with a light blue Bird of Paradise, and having under the brim a very narrow chain of diamonds retained at each side by a diamond rose. Blonde lace caps retain their vogue: some of the most novel for social evening parties are made flat on the forehead, with coquille of tulle-illusions at each side, and tufts of roses, or violets of Parma. Blonde lappets supply the place of brides. There is a good deal of variety expected in headdresses of hair; it seems to be generally understood that there will be no settled fashions for them. It is supposed, however, that some of the coiffures of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries will be revived with modifications. Flowers are expected to be very generally adopted for coiffures. No change in fashionable colors this month. anian ladies are eminently beautiful. A Pyschelike MOST of the delicately reared Creoles, or Louisfascination slumbers in their dark, eloquent eyes, whose richly fringed lids droop timidly over themsoftening but not diminishing their brilliance. classed. It is neither French nor English, but a Their style of beauty is unique, and not easily combination of both, mellowed and enriched under Vesta and Venus would have moulded had they a southern sky. They are just such creatures as united to form a faultless woman. Trimmings, particularly those of the Spanish Friendship is like a debt of honor-the moment kind, will be adopted. We have already seen it is talked of, it loses its real name, and assumes some of black real lace, interspersed with knots of the more ungrateful form of obligation. is nobie institution | DEEP vale of sorrow! from life's early day, imitated the cheerfulness and comfort of a private palace, that one of the prisoners, whom the thinking inhabitant of the rough outward world will almost hesitate to term wretched, wanders about the enclosed lawns, with an air of lordly importance, issues commands of no equivocal nature to such strangers as meddle with the fruit or flowers, and, basking here in the sunshine, sees his life glide peacefully on in a pleasant and perpetual not name. |