The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-31 00:00:00

FASHIONS FOR AUGUST.

- (From Le Mei.)
In the same degree as the season advances, so the Talma
establishes itself with undoubted authority, and we expect
that in another month it will reign almost exclusively. It
must of admitted that its form is equally convenient and
graceful.
The talma if often made of the same material as the dress,
or in white or black woollen lace, black taffetas, an'd even
tulle. The black lace talma must be trimmed with a gar-
niture of guipure. The tulle talma, so suitable for very
warm days, is covered with several rows of graduated laces,
each headed with a narrow ruche or passementerie. Care
should be taken not make these frills to full

Before writing about gauze dresses, which constitue, more
less, a visiting toilette, it is well to enter into some particu-
lars relative to la mode of the present time, the distinguish-
ing style of which is in some years the classical, in others
the picturesque.
The fashionables of this day have adopted the Louis XV.
style—the raised skirt over a coloured petticoat. The long
trains no longer sweep the dust or mud from our streets:
shoes, boots, and stockings, must, therefore, form an essen-
tial part of our toilette. Some ladies have been seen in Rus-
sian leather boots, laced up the front with leather tassels,
and high heels. The petticoats, also, should suit in colour
the dresses with which they are worn. The most useful
petticoat is of white English wool, with a band of bright
plaid.
Pardessus are made to fit the back, and open in front,
trimmed on the shoulder with floating ribbons, jockeys of
passementerie, black lace, or guipure.
Robe of taffetas, of the new shade of brown, trimmed with
insertions placed zigzag, and in each hollow a thou of nar
row brown velvet. Corsage a basque postillon, edged with
insertion. Sleeves with elbow. Bows of velvet on the front
of the body, and others up the seam of the sleeve, between
rows of insertion. Bonnet of crinoline, with crape curtain
covered with blace lace. Wheat-ears and corn, tied with
black velvet ribbon, and long floating ends of the same,
ornament one side of the crown.

Robe of corn-flower blue taffetas, trimmed with pink
flounces, separated by broad chicorees. The body is trimmed
with narrow chicorees.

Robe of taffetas, in checks of black and white, trimmed
over the hem with a broad guipure insertion over white rib-
bon. The body is trimmed to match. Belgian straw bon-
net, with a fanchon of spotted black tulle, forming a Marie
Stuart point in front, trimmed with small rosebuds.
Robe of white takou, with a broad band of violet taffetas,

trimmed with a wide braid placed above the hem. Collet
to match. Crinoline bonnet, with curtain to match the
trimmings on the robe; tufts of violets,anemones, and green
grass, placed on the summit.
Robe of mohair,of the geralda shade, crossed with threads
of black. A goffered flounce, about 6 inches wide, with a
band of blue taffetas edged with black braid; above this is
a row of pattes of taffetas, about 3 inches apart. The body
has a basque behind, and waistcoat front ti framed to imitate
an open jacket with ruches of the same material as the dress,
surmounted by an ornament of taffetas much narrower than
that on the skirt. Straw bonnet, trimmed with blue bells.
This last dress is suitable for a very young lady.
Another, of the same description, is of grey takou,
trimmed with five rows of black velvet above the hem.
The body trimmed to match, forming a postilion jacket.
The sleeves are cut with an elbow and drawn in at the bot-
tom. The collet is trimmed to match the dress.
An exceedingly pretty dress is of pale drab or lemon-
coloured mohair, trimmed with graduated velvets on the
bottom of the skirt and collet.
Narrow stripes and checks are not much used for young
ladies' dresses. he bodies are cut low and square in front,
with bouffant sleeves, and worn over a chemisette of tucked
muslin with puffed sleeves.
White dresses are much worn. Plain muslins are made
with three goffered flounces, or one broader with a bouil-
lonne above, or, still more fashionably, with ornaments of
black guipure.

Muslin dresses over blue, lilac, or pink taffetas, are be-

coming quite in demand. These robes are made high, and
the camail, or scarf, is lined with the same colour as the
skirt. The bottom of the skirt is trimmed in various styles,
sometimes with fluted flounces with a heading, or with a
simple hem, an insertion of Valenciennes, or guipure mixed
with narrow frills of muslin. These robes of organdi,
lined with colours, are worn for carriage drives, wedding
visits, or evening dress. A broad sash of taffetas, fringed
at the ends, is now worn with this toilette.
White alpacas, or foulard Shanghai, are trimmed with
coloured flounces, or braided in colours. Plaid taffetas is
also used as trimmings on white alpaca.
The burnous, the camail, and the paletot are made of the
same material as the dress. These should be accompanied
by the postilion hat of grey straw, with coloured feathers.
The organdi dresses over coloured silk are always worn
with rice-straw. crinoline, chip, tulle, crape, or Italian straw
bonnets, lightly and elegantly trimmed.
We have noticed a very elegant sea-side dress of leather-
coloured taffetas, trimmed with a band of real leather, with
steel edgings, below which was a deep fringe of thick silk,
nearly reaching the bottom of the skirt. The body, which
was ornamented with leather bands to match the skirt, was
opened over a waistcoat of plaited cambric, with a jabot of
lace placed on the edge of a rich insertion. Flat sleeves,
open to the elbow, trimmed to match. A leather purse, or-
namented with steel studs, was suspended to the leather
belt. A Coligny hat, of Italian straw, with the edge covered
with velvet of the same shade as the dress. A feather to
match, turned round one side, was attached to the crown
by a band of leather, fastened with' steel clasps in front.
The following is very elegant and suitable for full dress.
A robe of mauve taffetas, trimmed on the skirt with bou-
quets of mauve and white feathers, mixed, with chenille
These bouquets appear to be fastened on the skirt by an in-
sertion of Chantilly lace, tied like a ribbon bow, a Louis
XV., at the bottom of each bouquet. The insertion is
edged with white taffetas. Corsage Senorita, open over a
plain body, buttoned up the front. A splendid burnous of
Chantilly lace is worn over this toilette. which is completed
by a- mauve crape bonnet, trimmed with white and mauve
feathers and black lace.
Grenadines are much admired both for their excellence
and lightness.
A simple and elegant dress is composed of pearl-grey
taffetas, with long train, and the indispensable goflered frill
at bottom ; plain high body. and scarf of the same material,
with the plaits at the neck fastened down with ribbon bows,
and edged round with guipure; a deep frill of guipure all
round the scarf.

A second robe, of maize-coloured tussu Mexicain. The
bottom of the skirt is trimmed above the hem with a broad
insertion of antique guipure, placed over white taffetas. A
burnous of the same material, with an insertion all round ;
the hood composed of guipure, Hued with white taffetas. The
tassels of floss silk are placed at distances up the coif, so as
to fall over the back of the ht.ad when raised. Shaded
feathers are much used as ornaments on bonnets. Flowers
are generally adopted.

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