English Fashions. PLATE 1, FIG. 1. FULL evening or ball dress of very rich white satin. The skirt is very full, and rather short, and has a beautiful trimming of crimson velvet and tulle, at the usual height. The body is plaited lengthwise, in very small plaits. It is cut low and quite square, with a deep fall of blonde. A stomacher of crimson velvet, cut in three points at the waist, and edged with narrow blonde, finishes the corsage. The sleeve is full, with a second fall of blonde, and finished with a band of velvet. Coiffure, à la Maria da Gloria. Earrings and necklace of pearls and emeralds. Gloves and shoes of white satin. FIG. 2. Dinner costume. Dress of claretcoloured satin. The corsage is made uni, and cut square across the bust. A full fold of satin, deeply indented at one edge, crosses the front of the corsage en schall, and forms a full epaulette. The under sleeve is short and full, over which is a long sleeve of crêpe lisse, as well at bottom as at top, and confined at the waist by a deep band of satin. The skirt has a deep hem, surmounted by a garniture of small leaves, each divided nearly to the bottom, and edged with double cording. A toque of gold tissue, with ostrich feathers and folds of satin, gives an appropriate and elegant finish to this dress. Necklace and earrings of pearls. Shoes of claret satin, and white kid gloves. PLATE 2, FIG. 3. Walking dress of aventurine merino. Manteau of cerise gros de Tours, made full, and confined to the shape at the back part of the waist. The manteau is not trimmed down the front, but has an elegant pélerine, of an entirely new pattern. Capote of cerise terry velvet, made small, and with a light simple trimming of white satin or gauze ribbon. A rich Chantilly veil is sometimes worn with it. Muff and boa of sable, or ermine. Bottines of aventurine silk, lined with swansdown. Gloves of aventurine silk. FIG. 4. Morning dress of laurel-green reps. This dress will suit equally well for a pelisse, being very richly trimmed down the front. The skirt is very full, but it has no other finish than a deep hem, the work of which is visible. The corsage is made close up to the neck, and quite plain. The sleeve is of a novel description and very becoming. It is in two parts; the under, or back part, is close to the arm all the way down, while the front part is very full from top to bottom, but much more so at the upper part, and at regular distances is cut into pointed leaves, which are brought through openings cut in the scal loped edge of the back part, forming a rich garniture the whole length of the arm. The cape is cut very full on the shoul der, and in a point at the ceinture. The fulness is confined by folded bands on the shoulder, and left free over the sleeve, where it forms a full jockey. The collar is cut in points, and is edged with three narrow rouleaur, as is also the cape. Morning cap of fine lace, and and pale rose gauze ribbon. Black satin shoes. GENERAL REMAK Winter has fairly set in, and our fair belles are displaying their taste in their out-door costumes; and seldon has a winter season presented so pleasing a union of the utile et dulce. Fashion has been, too frequently, followed at the expense of health and comfort, by those who have thought foreign models alone worthy notice, to the utter (may we not say cruel?) neglect of native talent and industry. We could expatiate largely on this subject, but we have an accumulation of important matter, and our limits are necessarily contracted. In out-door dress, manteaux of the most varied forms, and of the most costly materials, hold a pre-eminent place. They are frequently lined through with rich fur, and are then made of satin, large and full, without trimming; but many are made of very elaborate patterns. Pelisses are much worn for morning in-door dress, but are not general for the carriage or promenade. When worn in the house, they are left open, and show a beautifully worked jupon to advantage. Bonnets are, we think, still smaller than last month. The favourite material for them is plush, and they are very little trimmed. Caps are as last month, perhaps a little smaller. Turbans are made simple, and generally ornamented with feathers. Gold or silver gauzes are the usual materials. Evening dresses are always trimmed with blonde, and the skirt of every kind of dress must be as wide as eight breadths of silk. Jewellery is massive and splendid, and of the most valuable gems. Merino wool stockings, embroidered in white or colours, are very fashionable among ladies of rank and elegance; and are likely to continue so, the cost of them being too high for a lower grade of society. The mention of a comfortable, as well as beautiful, article of this kind, has long been a desideratum; and we would recommend the use of this to all our fair readers who value health; the constitution being often seriously injured by neglecting to keep the feet warm. THE EDITOR'S ROOM. We often meet with odd correspondence, but it is some time since we were so amused at a mere skirmish between author and critic, as we have been at the annexed Letters, which, if genuine, are curious. We ought to premise that the handwriting of the second is very like that in which the Editor of the Literary Gazette justified the abuse of the Premier, and which, being still uncontradicted, we have a right to believe is genuine. To the Editor of the Literary Gazette. SIR,-By what authority have you stated that the prints of the Bouquet have been "all published before." The statement is false, and I shall be glad to learn that it is not wilfully and deliberately false. I am,' &c. THE EDITOR OF THE BOUQUET. To the Editor of the Bouquet. SIR, I looked no further than the page of contents, which purported to be selections from the most distinguished writers, and found there was not a single line either of my own or L. E. L's. I used the privilege of a critic, and shall do so again in a similar case. I am, &c. THE EDITOR OF THE LITERARY GAZETTE. So much for the system of reviewing adopted by the Literary Gazette. If this letter be genuine, it is an extraordinary admission; and if it be not genuine, we have no doubt it is true. We have been somewhat amused at the sensitiveness of Mr. Alaric A. Watts; manifested in sundry blunders, which, like so many blots, deface his Souvenir for 1832. From the facts already published, we learn, first, that Mr. Watts has taken to himself one of the characters drawn in the Premier, a clever and powerful novel of Colburn's; secondly, that he accuses Mr. Patmore of writing the said novel, (Mr. Patmore write!!!) and of reviewing it afterwards in the Court Journal; thirdly, that Mr. Patmore disclaims the authorship and the review altogether; fourthly, that the author of the Premier disclaims intending the character for Mr. Watts at all; and, lastly, that the very ground of Mr Watts's complaint-the falsehood of the picture was sufficient (for any thing short of a cormorant at swallowing personalities) to have made any man in his senses easy as to the intention of the author. Mr. Watts has therefore made himself look very ridiculous, has been laughed at by one half the literary world, and condemned by the other. The driver of the National Omnibus should take a lesson in English,—he should know that the posthumous works of authors cannot very well be published during their lives. Births, Marriages, and Deaths. BIRTHS. On the 26th Oct., Lady Kilmaine, of a daughter. On the 23d, at Maidstone, the Hon. Lady Noel Hill, of a daughter. On the 1st Nov., in Connaught Square, the Hon. Mrs. Stopford, of a son. On the 15th, the Lady of the Hon. G. C. Norton, of a son. On the 10th, at York, the Lady of the Hon. P. Stourton, of a daughter. At Cortachy Castle, the Countess of Airlie, of a daughter. On the 14th inst., at Gouldsborough Hall, Yorkshire, the Lady Louisa Lascelles, of a son. : MARRIAGES. On the 25th Oct., by special licence, in the chapel at Torquay, Devon, by the Rev. Lord Henry Kerr, the Hon. Charles Rodolph Trefusis, brother of Lord Clinton, to Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Kerr, daughter of the late Marquis of Lothian. On the 19th, at Langton House, Sir John Pringle, Bart., of Stitchel, to Lady Elizabeth Maitland Campbell, eldest daughter of the Marquis of Breadalbane. On the 27th, by special licence, at Dunleer, in the county of Louth, Sophia, eldest daughter of Jerome Count de Salis, of Rokeby Hall, to Henry Filgate, of Lesranny, of Charleston, Esq. On the 29th, at Moulton, Pembroke, Charles Porcher Lang, of Sand Rock, in the county of Surrey, Esq., to Eliza, the youngest daughter of Sir John Owen, Bart., M.P., of Orielton, Pembrokeshire. At St. Columb, E. Collins, Esq., of Trutham, Cornwall, to Miss Drake, niece to Lord and Lady Clinton. In France, the Rev. H. Dalton, of St. John's, Wolverhampton, to Sophia Geraldine, daughter of Lord Fitzgerald. DEATHS. On the 20th Oct., at North Berwick, Elizabeth Magdalene Dalrymple, eldest daughter of Sir Robert Dalrymple Horn Elphinstone, of Horn and Logie Elphinstone. On the 18th, at London, General the Hon. Charles Fitzroy, Colonel of the 48th Regiment of Foot. On the 18th, at Wragby, the Dowager Lady Foulis, in her 69th year. On the 15th, at Pisa, Miss Marie Françoise Amethisse Henry, daughter of their Majesties the late Henry, first King of Hayti, and of Marie Louise, now commonly called Madame Christophe. |