The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-31 00:00:00

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FA.SII7ONS FOR FEBRUARY.

(From Le Fond.)

At this season of the year our subscribers will
naturally prefer the pages of a journal devoted to
the description of fashion to be chiefly occupied with
evening-dress. We must, however, just mention,
in passing, one or two little facts of general interest.
We find that the small indoor vestes before men-
tioned are very much worn, either with or without
sleeves, and generally made with wide revers.
Also small corslets, with or without epaulets,
are frequently worn with the Cashmere
chemise russe. Gold and silver and fur are still
the trimmings most in vogue. Fur figures not
only in day, but also in evening dress ; ermine,
white fox, grebe, and swandown being all used for
this purpose. Nor must we omit speaking of lace,
which is ever a favourite trimming, especially on
satin. What can be prettier than a lace tunic
gracefully arranged over a skirt of satin ? To de-
scribe all the idnuense variety of elegant materials
now in vogue would be an impossibility, but we
would just call our subscribers' attention to the
beautiful fringes for trimming tulle or tarlatan
worked with gold or silver. They are made of
marabouts or swandown, tipped with gold and
silver ; also the flounces of Spanish blond
worked with satin flowers for plain tulle
dresses. This blond placed over bouillons of
tulle has a charming effect; it is also formed

into tunics. Black blond of the same make
is sometimes worn over black or coloured satin.
The first dress we describe is both novel and
stylish.

A ball dress composed of a skirt of white tulle,
with a thick chicoree, and bouillonnes of tulle. A
wide bias of black velvet is placed at the bottom of
the skirt and up the sides, but not across the front,
the front breadth being covered with black lace
forming a round tahlier. Corsage and tunic.of
white satin, the tunic being held back, as it were,
by the black velvet, and also caught up at the sides
by bouquets of black velvet and tea roses, with
brown foliage and long trails of leaves, in a
style recalling the paniers in the time of Marie
Antoinette.

A toilet de bal of blue satin, covered with five
skirts of blue tulle, each skirt trimmed with gold
and steel fringe, and a cord. Low body, crossed
and trimmed to match.

Dress of Chambery gauze spotted with black
flowers. Wide black velvet sash, the ends fringed
with gold. Upon the shoulders hanging bows of
black velvet fastened with a gold ornament.

A robe of green poult de soie. Low body, Marie
Antoinette fashion, trimmed with white lace and
steel cord. The skirt is trimmed with lace, carried
a little distance up each scam.

Toilet of blue velvet with white satin trimming,
the upper skirt being traced round with white satin
rouleautes and rosettes of the same placed half way
down the front. Low body, round berthe trimmed
to match.

Evening dress for a young lady. Three skirts of
pink crape set on in very small plaits, the border of
each skirt cut in small scallops answering to the
satin round the waist, and
widths cf the plaits. Body formed of three plaited
tbhaen
fasteneddtosp.A together thes
upperacrf
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beingfink in small scallops round
way ,down the side of the
skirt by a pink daisy, a smaller one being at the
waist at the other side.

A dress of white poult de soie, over which is a
skirt, very light and aerial, formed
.of bouillons of
tulle and flounces of silver blond, with a fringe
of light blue feathers. Low body, trimmed to
match.

A robe of white gauze, open in front, and form-
ing a long train, embroidered in an elegant wreath
of large daisies. Underskirt of white satin,trimmed
en tablier, with bouquets of daisies. The body
very low, fastened on the shoulder by bouquets of
the same flowers, which are repeated at the waist.
Head-dress to match.

A dress of straw-coloured satin, covered with a
tunic of Spanish blond. The tunic is nearly as
long as the satin skirt at the back, and rained on one
side under a bouquet of acacia. leaves. A wreath of
the same in the hair.

A dress of white terry velvet. Plain skirt ; the
body trimmed with lace and rows of fine pearls.
Head-dress, rows of pearls. This dress is
equally elegant, and even more effective, tritnmf3(l
with gold blond and rows of gold or turquoise beads.
Of course the head-dress must match.

A dress of light blue silk, trimmed en tablier,
and all round the train with beautifully formed
lace butterflies. Low body, trimmed with lace and
fringe of small turquoise beads. Strings of the
same beads in the hair, fastened under a large
white rose.

A dress of black lace over white satin, trimmed
with water lilies and coral in bouquets on the skirt,
sleeves, and in front of the body. The same orna-
ments in the hair. Necklace, ear-rings, and brace-
lets of coral.

A dress of
emerald green satin, trimmed with
silver blond. Low body, and long hanging sleeves
of tulle, spotted with silver.

A white satin dress, the skirt trimmed with a
white bouillonee of tulle, above which is placed a
flounce of gold blond. Low body, trimmed to
match.

A dress of blue terry velvet, trimmed with
dentelle Duchesse and white camellias. The skirt
trimmed uu tunique with a flounce of the lace,
and en tablier with rosettes of lace and camellias.
Head-dress, barbel of lace and camellias at the
side.

A white silk dress, the skirt made with a long
train and trimmed with rouleaux of satin, so ar-
ranged as to resemble wreaths of coral round the
skirt, up the front, and half way up the back
and sides. The low body, which has deep
basques edged with a wide fold of the same,
is trimmed to match the skirt. This dress may
also be made of light grey silk and red satin coral,
or violet and black maize and blue or black.
A robe of topaz. coloured satin, with a flounce of
crape of the same colour, and a trained tunic of
Indian lace. Low body of satin, draped with lace
and crape, and edged with a fringe formed of topaz
pendants.
Dress of blue satin, with a wide flounce of blue
crape, headed with a ruche: Tunic of blue crape,
pointed back and front, and very short at the sides,
trimmed round with rich lace and looped at the sides
with crape ruches. Satin body, trimmed with a
drapery of crape edged with lace.

lobe of rose-coloured poult de soie. Long train,
quite plain ; very wide plisse of rose satin, forming
a tablier in front. An ornament form of poult de
soie and plisse of satin is placed on each side. Body
with drapery to match, edged with moss fringe.
A splendid robe of poult de soie, black, worked
with bouquets of gold and silver, opened up the
showing a tablier of white satin, and bordered
round with gold passementerie, opened in the front,
with
front,
and laced across with passementerie. Low body,
trimmed round with gold, a gold lace over a sto-
macher of white satin.

Toilette de visite, of light brown poult de soie.
Trained skirt, and an upper skirt trimmed with
velvet of the same shade, worked with small beads.
High body, draped across. Velvet band. Tight
sleeves.

of violet and Malines
moire, with trained
skißrte,cetprti
lace. Body, high at the back, opened square in the
imoonleddresswitobf
bows
set
front. Chemisette and under sleeves of Malines
lace, the sleeves of moire being only half long and
open. _ _

Dress of poplin. Round skirt, trimmed at the
top of the hem with a ruche of satin the same colour
as the material. Tight body, and sleeves of the
same. The body seamed square in front, and
over it a small jacket without sleeves, made of black
velvet, and laced from the throat part of the way
down the front, and trimmed with a ruche match-
ing that on the skirt.
Robe of pearl grey satin. Trained skirt, quite
plain. High body. Indian race sash, fastened toge-
ther low down the skirt by a series of little bows of
golden brown satin.

Dress for a young lady, blue taffetas, with satin
spots. Round plain skirt. high body, with Marie
A.utViinttEi fiche of black yelyet, fastened Whim'

and bordered with a piping of blue satin, and a
fringe of silk and jet mixed.

The bonnets have undergone little or no change
in form since last month, but our skilful modistes
are continually finding fresh methods of arranging
these tiny coiffures, so as to make them more com-
fortable, as well as more becoming.
For evening coiffure gold and steel are much
worn. Ornaments of the same, placed on velvet
bands, are also much used ; or strings of garnets,
with hanging ornaments of the same. Also beads
of crystal or gold, twisted in the hair, form a very
pretty and becoming head-dress. A long wreath
of heath, with metallic leaves, twisted several times
round the head, and fastened under a flower or
ornament of gold and steel, is a new and elegant
coiffure.

THE AMERICAN TAX ON COTTON.
A copy of the following correspondence has bee:
furnished to us:---

Foreign-office, Jan. 27, 1868.
Sir,---1 am directed by Lord Stanley to transmit
to you, for the information of the Manchester Cot-
ton Supply Association, a copy of a despatch from
her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at Washington, re-
porting the passing of a bill in the United States,
Senate, by which the internal tax on cotton is SUB-
pended during the presentyear.—l have the honour
to be &c. E. HAMMOND.
The Secretary to the Manchester Cotton
Supply Association.

Washington, Jan. 14, 1868.
My Lord,--I have the honour to inform your
Lordship that a bfil was passed by a small majo-
rity of (24 to 20) in the Senate on the 7th inst.,
providing for the suspension of the in-
ternal tax on cotton during the present year,
after which period the tax will again come into
operation. An amendment will likewise con-
curred- in suspending . the .duty on. -raw
cotton imported from foreign countries on and
after April 1, 1868, and until April 1, 1869. This
amendment was agreed to with a view of benefiting
the trade in grain bags which are used in the
Western States, and in the manufacture of which
the coarse Surat cotton is very extensively em-
ployed. The bill, together with the amendment to
it, having been reported back to the Lower House,
was agreed to by that body.—l have the honour to
be, &c.,
(Signed) F. C. FORD.
The Right Hon. Lord Stanley.