Sky-blue and rose are the most common colours for the Florence capotes , and muslin or crape robes. White robes with silver spots, and tunics with points in like manner, sprinkled with silver spots or stars, are still worn. In jewellery the cornelian is the fashionable stone of the day. It is used in collars, ear-rings, bracelets, and seals. The collars, of the newest taste have a large oval plate in cornelian hanging from a short chain of elastic meshes of gold.
Veils constitute the principal part of most head-dresses.
For full dress they are left entirely to the taste of the coiffeur, who, with the assistance of chefs, or silver ribbons, forms them into oblong turbans. Upon many of the most elegant headdresses we observe an aigrette of hair, fastened with a pin. Black crape hats and black tunics are still in fashion. The ribbons are very narrow striped, and of very lively colours. The collar of the gentlemen's coats in extraordinarily narrow.