The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-30 00:00:00

FASHIONS FOR JUNE.

(From Le Polk.)

Notwithstanding the uncertainty of the weather,
great preparations have been made in elegant toilettes
suitable to the season, and we are glad to find many DOW
and beautiful materials added to those whioh we have
already referred to. The new styles ate not half so eats►
vapnt u sometimes represented; the art consisting in
knowing how to select and suit them to the weans. Any
lady of refined tuts can sally &Swinish& that whilst is
elegant and boa ran hue the ma of caricatures and
exaggerations sometimes presented to her as the latest
Paris fashion.

Plain chine and Pompadour silks, moire antiques, silk
gauzes, and grenadines, are selected for toilettes eh-gaoler.
For in-doors or out-of-doors morning dress, woollen mohair',
Wiles, alpacas, and foulards are the materials most suit-
able. The colours most in vogue for this season are grey,
chamois, and iLtvannah.
The fashion of onnunenting the bottom of the skirls is far
from being on the decline ; we may make the same remark
with respect to their size and fulness.
Yany new designs in foulards have been lately intro-
duced. Among the most elegant are those of a light
ground with very narrow coloured stripes, or covered
with a grecque pattern ; this is very pretty in drab and
bine, er stone odour sad aroma ; others in the Pompadour
style are in black, white, or pale buff, with little chine
bunches of flowers.

Pearl-grey is very much in fashion, and is imitable to
almost every material, as it can be trimmed either with kW
own colour or any other.
Wide flounces seem decidedly to have been discarded in
favour of smaller ones, ruches, tuyautia, and other styles et
trimming, which are only worn on the bottom of the skirt.
Braiding is still much worn, and on almost all fabrics to
which it is suitable.

Black silk dresses, soutachiee in colour, are very petty,
and, it simply made, elegant, and well adapted for young
ladies. Lyons or Irish poplins are in good taste, and are
generally braided or trimmed with ruches.
The fashion of opening drawee at the seams, over another
skirt, has been decidedly adopted, and is as elegant in light
hawks as it was in winter drawees. When made in grena-
dine, gauze de ChamVry, and silk gauze, the under-skirt
is made of silk of the same colour as the outer one. In
some cases, we have seen both skirts made in the same
material ; the upper one plain, and the under flounced or
ruched.

Muslin and thin dresses are generally made with low
bodies. Two pilirmes are made for these draws, one
high, the other low ; both trimmed to correspond as far as
possible with the skirt.
Bodies are made either round or pointed, but the points
are considered more dress. Many elegant dresses are made
with two points in front, and one behind. Square or open
bodies are much worn ; if for out of doors, they are accom-
panied with a chewisette of muslin or of site, the same
colour as the trinuniog of the dress.
The sleeves are not very large, and generally open either
at back or in front. For thin draws, the prettiest sleeve
is a large full one, set into a band at the bottom, large
enough to pass the hand through. This sleeve is drawn
up in the front seam so as to maze it shorter before than
behind.

Loose white bodies will be much worn ; the newest and
most elegant accompaniment fur them being • snail silk
body pointed behind and before, both at top and bottom. la
the front, the top upper poiot nacho up to the chest, and
slopes gradually off till quite narrow under the arms ; the
back also liata in a point, but not so high as the one in
front. A strap of silk goes over the shoulder on each side.
These little bodies are trimmed with ruches or pinked silk
frills; they are very elegant to black silk, and an, of course,
then be worn with any coloured skirt.
Mantles are very much smaller than was fashionable •
short time ago, and are worn off the shoulder, if intended for
toilette babillee. Small shawls with deep lam are alaov
elegant for out-of-door dress. For the morning, small
paletOta of the same material as the drew are worn ; hat
this style is not adopted after noon, when they are replaced
by totally different shapes. There are two other s yreles_
es_of
mantle which are made in the same material as the
the csaaque, nearly tight-fitting, and the longcircular cloak.
We are happy to state that the form of the bonnets is
definitely and decisively altered ; they are no longer worn
standing pp in • high point, but are much flatter and
squarer, plug off rather narrow at the ears, and do not
advance nearly so much on the head. The curtains, also,
an narrower. Flowers are placed outside, either quite at
the top in front or on one aide of the crown ; the former is
more suitable for young ladies. The Gap is very full,
especially at the top ; and the flowers or ornaments Cr.
placed either in • spray at the top or at one side ; which-
ever is more becoming to the wearer.
Small or large curled feathers are very elegant for married
ladies, and are often mixed with flowers. For young ladles
the most recherché ornaments are roses very little open,
mom-rose buds, moss, and green heath.
Ball dresses are, of course, made in as light material es
possible, and either coloured orof white trimmed with some
colour. Net is becoming fashionable for this purpose,
being firmer than tarlatans, and not so easily destroyed.
Whim tarlatacies, stamped with coloured flowers, an suited
to young ladies, sod are by no means expensive. We noticed
one with • plain skirt, most beautifully ornamented in
wreaths and bouquets of flowers, and intended to be worn
over • white silk drew.
The tunics of lace are very elegant, and are generally
mimed at nose side by • bunch or prised of flowers; similar
flowers are wore in the hair. The bodies of some brill-
' draws are made with one point is front and two behind ;
others with four points—via, one in front, another behind,
and one at each aide : this is rather becoming, but requires
a small waist to produce the desired effect.
The wreath has entirely disappeared from the catalogue
of fashionable heeddressee. Flowers an now mingled with
the hair, or placed in little bouquet. according to the taste
of the wearer. .

—Forth;l;;Oquet in the hair, pink geraniums are much
worn, and when well imitated are very putty.
Very open Bowers are not cousidered suitable fee Young
ladies, either fir bassets er head-dresses ; for the tatter,
festhisa are very graceful, and can kw worn quite loco, so as
to droop on the beck. It Bowen are WWII as areenumts for
the dun, those In the heir should, of cause, be of the
same kind ; for elderly ladies they can be Minimized with
lea or feathers.