Fashions for July 



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All these costumes ai-e completed by high 

 boots of soft leather, lined with cork, bound 

 and laced with braid of the colour of the 

 trimming : they are with or without heels. 



For the toilets of the casino or the beach 

 there are two styles of dress — the short cos- 

 tume and the train-shaped robe, with panniers, 

 or a looped-up Louis XV. puff. 



Shot silks of two colours make up charming 

 dresses. The following is the list of the ten 

 difterent combinations of colours most fashion- 

 able for these beautiful glace silks shot of two 

 different tints : — 



1. Dawn of day (azure blue and maize). 



2. Sunset (crimson and maize). 



3. Lapis-blue and white. 



4. Dove colour (blue and gold). 



5. Amadis-green and gold. 



6. Dove-grey and white. 



7. Steel-grey and white (half-mourning). 



8. Lilac and maize. 



9. Light-brown and white. 



ID. Pale-green and rose-colour. 



The shot silk dress is frequently worn with 

 an underskirt of striped silk of the same 

 colours, when the whole toilet is not of the 

 same material. The trimming is of one 

 colour only. 



Let us glance at some of the prettiest toilets 

 of the month. In foulard glace', a marquise 

 dress, shot light green and straw colour. 

 First skirt, just touching the ground, trimmed 

 round with a deeply scalloped and pinked- 

 out flounce, gathered and without any head- 

 ing. Second skirt, trimmed -vvith a similar 

 flounce, and with narrow cross-strips of green 

 silk. This second skirt is looped up on 

 either side with large bows of wide plain 

 green ribbon. Plain bodice, open in front, 

 and crossed like a shawl, edged mth a ruche 

 of green ribbon. Tight sleeves with a similar 

 ruche round the wrists. 



A young lady's dress for a fete champeirc is 

 of plain white muslin over blue glace' silk. 

 The toilet is completed by a pretty Bachlik of 

 blue silk, pinked out all round the edges. 

 At the back there is a pretty round hood, 

 and the lappets, which are very wide, and 

 rounded at the bottom, are tied at the waist 

 so as to form a sash. 



A walking toilet is composed of a dress of 

 lilac and maize shot glace silk, trimmed with 

 a narrow gathered flounce, headed with a 

 cross-strip of maize silk ; the skirt is looped 

 up in the middle of the back by a series of 

 pointed lappets placed one above the other, 

 from the waist downwards. The under-skirt 

 is striped lilac and maize. Plain bodice and 

 tight sleeves, with maize cross-strips ; short 

 circular cape, with lappets fastened upon the 

 left shoulder, and hanging down at the back. 

 Toquet of grey-plaited straw, trimmed with 

 yellow roses. The cape is trimmed all round 

 with a fluted quilling headed with a maize 

 cross-strip. 



A pretty walking toilet for a young lady is 

 a plain high dress with naiTOw sleeves, and a 

 double skirt of blue and white glace' mohair. 

 The upper-skirt is cut out in very small 

 scallops round the bottom, bound with grey 

 silk and trimmed with gimp tassels and 

 buttons of the same shade. Plain under- 

 skirt ; scarf mantle of black silk, scalloped 

 out and bordered with a cross-strip; the 

 lappets are loosely tied at the side, and 

 trimhied with silk tassels, forming a fringe. 

 Italian straw hat, bound with black velvet 

 and ornamented with a pearl brooch and 

 bunch of blue feathers at the side. 



An elegant Watteau costume of blue silk, 

 shot with white, consists of a round skirt 

 without any train, just covering the ankle, 

 and of a half-fitting casaque. The latter is 

 very full at the back, and cut out into three 

 large scallops edged with a narrow gathered 

 flounce. Five similar flounces are placed 

 round the bottom [of the skirt. There are 

 three seams at the back of the bodice of the 

 casaque; each seam is covered with blue 

 gimp cord and finished off" with a tassel- 

 There are also gimp ornaments round the neck 

 and tight sleeves. 



In some costumes of the same style, for 

 summer /'/(^i-, the casaque is of white tarlatan 

 or grenadine, and trimmed with bows of 

 coloured ribbon, over a dress of shot glace 

 silk or foulard. The dress is ornamented 

 with gathered flounces or with bouillons of 

 the same material. 



Watteau paletots of black lama lace are 



