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FASHIONS FOR MARCH. Fro. i.—Moa.vr.vo Darss or rmx wum: Mcsux ovta rm: SILL—The basque is long. and finished like the skirt with a deep fluted rnflie. White lace cap fastened under the chin with ribbon and flowers. Fro. II.—-“'ALKL'G Brass or PLAID Sum—Tho skirt is trimmed with six flounces, each flounce edged with a quill ing of ribbon. The corsage is round, with a slight fullness back and front, and confined at the wrist by a sash of the same material as the dress. Wide sleeves with two full pufi's at the top. Leghorn bonnet trimmed with field daisies and red berries. Fm. im.—“lunar; Darss or Baows SILL—Deep basque of black velvet trimmed with fur; fur berths, and wide -pagoda sleeves edged with fur. Black velvet bonnet. Fm. rv.—Diz~mra Dasss or Gasser SILK, trimmed with narrow puflings, the puflings divided by bands of black velvet. Raphael waist, edged with narrow lace, and trim med to correspond with the skirt. Sleeves formed of three


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head; of several rows of flat bows fastened down by steel or oxidized silver buckles, of large tasscls or bows with very long ends. _ For coiti‘ure in half dress, we see a good many tufts of

pinked silk of two colors or black lace and white blonde, t placed very far back, and fastened in front by a row on one t side, a plat or a torsade.

Burs 0a “'ars'r-Barms with very wide buckles are a good


. deal worn. Oxidized silver is now to be found not only in <

waistband and fancy buckles, but in all sorts of jewelery.

S This style, after being neglected for some years, is now in Q high vogue again. The same may be said of large stones, 3 such as topazes, amethysts, garnets, and fretted in jewelery in colored gold. For walking-dress plain bracelets with enamel incrustn tions of several colors seem likely to replace the bracelets with devices. But the most important innovation recently made with respcct to jewels consists in the new style of watch-chain; puffs. Head-dress of flame-colored velvet, plaited in the These chains, tightened round the neck by means of slides form of a crown, with an end formed of velvet and edged set with precious stones or enameled, separate into two parts, one of which ends in a swivel to receive the watch, with fringe on one side. F10. v.—L1xr:.v Sacqus, trimmed on the collar and sleeves the other in a tassel or seal. with a double frill. F10. vi.—C.Ps, is Musux, with trimmings of pink or blue ribbon, as the taste of the wearer may determine. GENERAL Kaunas—At the present moment, the dresses CHILDREN’S FASHIONS. which are most frequently seen, are made of black silk; Fm. 1.—Na.'socx Dares, trimmed with two narrow these are standing articles in every lady's wardrobe, and ap propriate for so many occasions that they must always be flounces embroidered in satin stitch and with insertions in replaced as soon as their beauty has begun to fade. These which ribbons are run. Above the frills of the sleeve, on dresses are generally made with two deep flonnccs, or with the wristband, and round the top of the neck are insertions a single tiounce, very deep and surmounted by a number of with a ribbon under them. Fro. 11.—T0itzr FOR A LITTLE (hat or stem or. mar..— extremely. narrow ones. This style of trimming is a remi niscence of the first empire, and harmonizes well with the This model is made of poplin and trimmed with a deep short waists and the sleeves having large path; or slashes, plaiting of silk. The jacket is ample. so as to give the ap pearance ofa double skirt; it has a pelerine and wide sleeve. which have now been some time in wear; but the full skirts, Fro. lII.—RUSSIAX GOSTUME.—Black velvet par-dessns, which remain as voluminous as ever, no way resemble the umbrella cases the ladies of that day thought so becoming. § trimmed with fur. Velvet cap with fur also. Sleeves and Dresses are still made occasionally with two or four rounded § trousers very wide. The trousers are puffed on the knee points, and the Zouave jackets are more and more adopted and confined by a tight band. by our fashionable ladies for in-doors wear. They are always 's Fro. rv.—-C.xnmo Danes with a double skirt. The upper

. cut wide in the back, open or closed in front, and are worn skirt is ornamented with a puffing. edged with it worked over the body of the dress. For the wide. open sleeves of a trimming. The body, sleeves, and bretidles are trimmed to dresses for full toilet, pulled under-sleeves are made with correspond with the skirt.

deep lace trimming, bows of ribbon or velvet, or large bal Children's dresses are always matters of deep interest to loons of muslin decorated all round with ends of muslin or S mothers. 0n the adornment of little girls fancy and taste S lace, and having openings through which narrow vol vets or K seem to have well nigh exhausted every variety of style; x ribbons are run. Sometimes black lace trimmings are put and now the love of change is no less manifest in the habi

to white sleeves. With closed sleeves, the under-sleeves kK limcnts of little boys. The long gaiters and the Spanish have cuffs finely worked in white or colors, with checkers k sombrero were superseded by the Highland kilt and Glen~ K of muslin and velvet, or with large points formed by rather 8 garry bonnet, and these in their turn are giving place to the

long India and the wide pantaloons of the Russian mmg't'k.

wide velvctq mixed with lace. ,

Iissn-Darssrs are made in the greatest variety of styles. g All these national varieties will probably, in their turn, dis

Those which please as most are composed of several cross appear as soon as we obtain authentic models of thejuvenilie

bands of ribbon or velvet coming well forward on the fore- ~. costume worn in China and Japan.


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