ladies appear in black silk dresses (for bombazine is rarely worn) with black crape trimmings and bonnets. These dresses are generally worn with a pelerine of the same material as the dress, trimmed with black crape, or else composed of crape only; the Jatter is most fashionable.

Black batiste or plain black gingham are, we presume on account of their being a cooler dress than silk, adopted by many genteel women.

We observe that children, or young ladies under fifteen, are very frequently seen in white frocks with black silk handkerchiefs, and sashes and bonnets trimmed with black, or black and grey riband.

One of the prettiest out-door novelties that the mourning has afforded is a pelisse gown composed of black gros de Naples, and trimmed with black crape. The shawl part of the dress is round, and very deep behind; the lappels are shallower than usual, and the dress does not display the bust so much as last month. The corsage is cut round in languettes, which are covered with crape. A trimming of a similar description is arranged on each side of the front, from whence it turns back at the knee round the back part of the skirt; it descends from the waist to the knee in the shape of a broken cone. The form of the sleeve is very novel; it is excessively full from the shoulder to a little below the elbow; from thence the fulness is disposed in three separate clusters of plaits, with plain spaces between.

Walking bonnets are generally of the capote shape; they are either of black or white crape, trimmed with the same material, or else of grey crape, or figured black and grey silk; in the latter case they are trimmed with a mixture of black and grey gauze ribands.

In carriage dress, and at Kensington Gardens, we have seen a number of black crape hats, trimmed with flowers of the same material. Black and white crape canezous are also much in favour over black silk dresses. But if the dress is of the pelisse form, the chemisette is either of white cambric, or of white crape with broad hems.

Printed muslins of a great variety of patterns in black and grey are a good deal used in morning dress. A new style of deshabille, which has appeared within these few days, is of a form something between a pelisse gown and a wrapper. The corsage is made loose from the shoulder to the waist, where it is confined by a broad ceinture; it comes nearly, but not quite, to the throat, and is finished round the top by four points, which fall over in the

pelerine style. Those before and behind are very deep; those on the shoulders are smaller. The front point is fastened down by a row of jet buttons. The sleeves are à l'imbecille.

Black gros de Naples dresses, the corsages made open before and behind, with lappels which turn back in deep points on the shoulders, are much in favour in dinner dress. The sleeves are either black crape or gauze, and of the imbecille form, over a short full silk sleeve. These dresses are worn over chemisettes of white crape, which have frequently a light embroidery in black or grey silk round the top.

Black crape and gauze are much worn in full dress. Some of these gowns have a white crape tucker à l'enfant; others have a corsage uni, and cut rather high. These last are frequently finished with a bouquet of flowers or foliage embroidered in grey, or black and grey silk, in front of the bust. The sleeves are in general of the béret form.

The trimmings most in favour, in full dress, are crape ruches, placed just above the hem; or else embroidery in grey, or a mixture of black and grey, silk.

Head-dresses of hair are ornamented with jet combs and bandeaus, or crape flowers. Turbans and bérets are worn by those ladies who do not appear en cheveux. Crape, gauze, and tulle are the materials of those head-dresses. Some of the turbans are composed of a mixture of black and grey; others, which are of one colour only, are adorned with crape flowers, or have a jet ornament brought low on the forehead.

The announcement of a drawing-room to be held in colours, on the king's birth-day, has set the invention and taste of our eminent dress-makers at work for trimmings, &c. The court dress which we have the pleasure to present our fair readers with in our print of English fashions, is considered one of the most elegant of those now in preparation. We have also, in accordance with the general belief of a speedy change to half-mourning, procured a walking dress, which we flatter ourselves will be found at once simple, elegant, and appropriate to the occasion and to the season.

Modes de Paris.

EVENING DRESS.

A gown of gaze brillantée: the colour is bleu de Berry, over a gros de Naples slip to correspond. Corsage uni, ornamented with a double fall of blond lace disposed à l'enfant. Béret sleeve of the usual form, surmounted by a triple fall of blond lace. The trimming of the skirt consists of a double flounce of blond lace, headed by a white satin rouleau, and surmounted by a

wreath of flowers in a highly raised embroidery of blue floize silk. The hair is much parted on the forehead, and dressed in very full curls on each side. The hind hair is partly disposed in a soft full how, and partly in a plaited band, which is wound round the bow. A silver comb, the gallery of which is finely wrought, is inserted in the bow in front, and a bandeau à jour of the same material is brought low on the forehead. White ostrich feathers, intermin gled with ears of silver corn, droop in different directions at the back of the head; and a blond lace scarf, the middle of which forms a coque behind the feathers, is arranged en barbes, which hang very low. Necklace and earrings are in silver, of the girandole form, and finely wrought. The fan is carved ivory.

CARRIAGE DRESS.

A dress composed of yellow and white striped gros de Naples. Corsage à la Vierge. The lower part of the sleeve sits close to the arin, the stripes being placed en biais; the upper part is of the usual width. The canezou is composed of blond lace; it has a high collar, which is supported round the throat by a sautoir of dark green gauze riband, tied in a nœud in the centre of the bosom. The pelerine consists of a double fall of lace, as do also the epaulettes. The manchettes, which are trimmed at the upper edge, are likewise of blond. Hat of rice straw: the brim, which is excessively wide, is ornamented on the inside, next the face, with a band of dark green gauze riband, which forms a point on the left side, and terminates on the right in a nœud, in the centre of which is inserted a bouquet of corn flowers, and ears of unripe corn. The trimming of the crown corresponds. Gold bracelets and earrings. Bottines of black gros de Naples.

STATEMENT OF FASHIONS AT PARIS, IN JULY.

The French court mourning for the late sovereign of England has not extended beyond the court and the first circles; but the English, even those of inferior rank, have been unanimous in paying that last mark of respect to the memory of their venerated sovereign. The mourning is of the deepest kind, that is to say, black bombazine, trimmed with crape, for walking or home dress; and black crape over black silk for full dress.

In walking dress the mourning bonnets are either of black or white crape, and of the capote shape. A pelerine, trimmed with crape, is the only covering for the neck in out-door dress, unless the weather renders a shawl necessary. It is not known how long the English will continue in mourning, but as yet there is no talk of changing it.

French promenade dress is of a simple and very light description. Notwithstanding the badness of the weather, white dresses