PARIS FASHIONS.
(From our own Correspondent.)
The Parisians are leaving for the country by troops, 1. every day several hundreds of our fashionables are carried off' by the railway. The goddess of dress follows her beautiful votaries, and pursues them with novelties several of which are worth especial notice. White muslin robes, with a little embroidered coloured spot, bid fair to be the rage this summer. They are made with a number of scalloped flounces, the edges of which are button-holed with cotton the colour of the spot. The bed- dice is low, and over it is a bertha cresting in front and trimmed with festooned frills ; a high co.nezou looks equally well and the frills can be put on to form a square before and behind. The Beauharnais canezou is something quite new. It is the invention of Mademoiselle Virginie Vasseur, a lady famed for her wedding outfits, and it certainly requires no little imagination to make thirty or forty dresses for the same person so that no two shall be alike. Mademoiselle Virginie has also originated la robe Clotilde, of white muslin, with white embroidered spots. On the skirt are nine flounces, and a pink or blue riband is passed through the hem. Between every third flounce there is a space, filled up with bouillons and riband beneath. All down one side three are bows of riband attached to each flounce; on the other side, there are two larger bows fixed to the bouillons. The corsage low and square, is worn with a little fichu which leaves the throat bare and covers the
bows of riband ; but the distinguishing mark of this costume is a very shoulders. The sleeves, modertelong, have five flounces and five
wide sash, which goes round e waist and ties behind like a child's. It has a coquettish effect, and the ends should be finished off by a deep and handsome fringe. This dress is approved at St. Cloud, and it is per- fectly charming in the country, when accompanied by a Foramina straw-hat trimmed with pretty wild flowers.
Much attention is now bestowed upon riding habits. The most ele- gant thing that can possibly be worn on horseback is white piqué, only it is open to two objections. It easily soils, and it is only becoming to slender figures, as it apparently magnifies the proportions. Nankin, lasts clean longer ; but then it does not suit fair women, so it is mono- polized by brunettes. The majority of our Amazons wear the unbleached coutils, which stand wear and tear. The riding-habit has recently un- dergone some modifications in form. The skirt, as usual, is wide and long, and a rather short-waisted boddice is substituted for the everlasting jacket. Simplicity, at least in this department, is the order of the day, and except a row of buttons down the front, which are useful as fas- teners, there is no trimming whatever. The sleeves are large at the shoulders, turned back at the wrist, and simply bound with braid. The under sleeves of cambric have the wristbands finely stitched, and there is no room for luxurious display unless it be in the studs which fasten them, or in the whip handle which is covered with precious stones. Sapphire and amethyst, which both look well by day, are in the greatest requisition for this purpose, and notwithstanding the high price of the first, the lovely union of blue and violet will always conspire to make these jewels esteemed. The riding-hat worn in the country this year.is charming. It is made of straw, and the sides, which are slightly turned up, are bound with black velvet. A tuft of cock's feathers of a lustrous metallic blackish-green, is confined by a black velvet bow, and the com- bination is as graceful as it is becoming. LEONIE D'AITNET.
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