PARIS FASHIONS FOR THE MONTH.

We keep our title, because the fashions we present to our fair readers are made in Paris, but they are, generally speaking, made to be sent off immediately to the spas, the sea side, and different parts of the country, for the great heat of the weather has driven almost all our fashionables from Paris. We may reckon among the principal novelties of the month, travelling dresses and sea-side costumes. But before we speak of them, we must give a glance at the new chapeaur and capotes which our élégantes are taking with them on their tours. Those of fancy straw mate are in great request for the promenade, but they must be of the very finest kind in order to distinguish them from the com. mon straw of the same description. They are simply but very prettily trimmed with blue bells, or a mixture of different kinds of field flowers. These chapeaux are principally adopted for the morning walk, for which also we see a good many capotes of taffetas bouillonné, mostly pous sièrè, and a new and very quiet shade of grey. They are trimmed in the interior with close knots of pink ribbon, and on the exterior with ribbon corresponding with the capote, and a small tuft of field flowers, of one sort only, placed very low at each side. Chapeaux and capotes for half-dress, and the public promenade, are of the light materials we have recently announced. Fancy straw of the open kind will retain all the vogue it has hitherto enjoyed; a good many are trimmed with ribbons, striped or figured in white and orange, to which a long light feather, shaded in the same colours, is added; the interior of the brim is decorated with orange and white tulle bouillonné mingled.

Scarfs of various kinds, and particularly those of lace and barege, are very much in vogue, but not to the exclusion of silk mantelets. We may cite among the most remarkable of these the Fatima, an Oriental pardessus of that rich and ample kind, which seems to be gaining ground daily in France. It is made both in taffeta and poult de soie, and either plain or shaded in light colours; it has a strong resemblance to the caprice, but with this difference-that it is square, and closed in front; it is trimmed with two volants, the upper one so disposed as to have the appearance of a sleeve. The volants are variously edged; some are cut in round dents, bordered with a narrow and light effilé; others are edged with a passementerie of the lace kind, but not very broad. This kind of trimming is now brought to the greatest perfection, and certainly offers the most striking resemblance to lace. We have seen also some of these pardessus with

the flounces put on with less fulness than usual, and edged with a narrow em broidering in the colours with which the silk was shot, for we must observe that this kind of garniture is adopted only for shot silk mantelets.

Travelling dresses, and morning robes for the country, are composed of foulard de laine, coulil, and Nankin, this last, however, does not seem so much in vogue as the foulard de laine. The redingote form is decidedly the one preferred. The corsage is quite high at the back, some, but not the majority, equally high and quite close in front, a greater number open with lappets in the style of a gentleman's waistcoat. basquines are still adopted; we have seen several descending pretty low in front, with pockets on each side. We hardly know how to describe the sleeves of these robes; they are not made close fitting, nor yet demi large, but a sort of medium between both, and almost all with deep square cuffs. Mother-of-pearl buttons are coming into favour for these robes.

Those for the afternoon promenade are composed of silks of a slight kind, bareges, and muslins both plain and printed; the corsages are half-high, the sleeves short and of a medium width, and the skirt trimmed with flounces; they vary in number from two to five. This is the most fashionable style for robes, particularly for muslin ones, but if the dress is a redingote, and composed of silk, the corsage high at the back, is very open on the bosom, and almost inva riably made with a lappel, which is trimmed, as is also the front of the skirt, with some of the different garnitures recently given in our prints. The sleeves are either long and tight, or else of the three-quarter length, displaying the under sleeve of cambric or muslin bouillonné.

Robes for evening parties, or soirées dansantes in the country or at the watering places, are of tarlatane or organdy. There is little actual change in their form, but we think the corsages are not cut quite so low as in winter; the sleeves are always short, and a good many are terminated by a single bouillon. Double skirts have lost nothing of their vogue; a good many have the corsage and skirts ornamented with a light running embroidery, others are trimmed with lace, or ruches of gauze ribbon or coloured tulle; the latter is very much in vogue.

Head-dresses of hair are now almost the only ones adopted in evening costume. Notwithstanding the warmth of the weather ringlets predominate. Flowers are the ornaments most employed; a light wreath, or a single flower with buds and foliage, placed on one side, or else a wreath in which small fruits are mingled with foliage or flowers. Fashionable colours are the same as last month,

DESCRIPTION OF THE ENGRAVINGS.

PUBLIC PROMENADE DRESS.

No. 1.

Grey poult de soie robe, corsage Amazone, made quite high and close, with a jacket rounding off from the front, and ornamented with lattens and fancy trimming to correspond. Long tight sleeve; arched mancheron, trimmed with fringe. Four rows of the same kind, but much broader, are disposed in the style of flounces on the skirt; they are arranged in the drapery style, in the centre. Rice straw chapeau; a small round shape, trimmed in a very novel manner with a twisted band, and aigrette formed of ends of yellow ribbon.

YOUNG GENTLEMAN'S PROMENADE DRESS.

No. 2.

Cashmere tunic plaided in two shades of green, made with a deep square cape, trimmed with a green velvet band lappel and robings of the same. A row of green silk buttons completes the trimming. Grey beaver hat, the crown encircled with a long white feather.

YOUNG LADY'S PROMENADE DRESS.

No. 3.

Pink barege frock, striped crosswise; a low body, and short tight sleeves. cambric pantaloons, and high chemisette. Bonnet of rose-noisette poult de soie'; a very open shape, trimmed with pink ribbon. Pink taffeta pelerine fichu, bordered with a ruche of tulle. Black lace gloves.

PUBLIC PROMENADE DRESS.
No. 4.

Blue striped foulard robe, the corsage high, and partially open in front; is trimmed in the lappel style with passementerie. Long tight sleeve. Two very deep flounces decorate the skirt. Muslin mantelet of a large size, and a double fall. The trimming is composed of muslin and yellow ribbon. Yellow crape chapeau, trimmed with folds and fringed ribbon; it is a small, round, and rather close shape.

MORNING VISITING DRESS.

No. 5.

Taffeta robe; the colour is terre d'alger; corsage à revers, and long tight sleeve. The front of the skirt is embroidered in sentache. Pink tulle chapeau, a moderately close shape, trimmed with ribbon to correspond, a round full white feather, and a pink tulle veil. Rarege scarf.

OPEN CARRIAGE DRESS.
No. 6.

Blue taffeta robe; a low corsage, trimmed with a lappel of two falls, each bordered with effilé to correspond. Short sleeve reaching to the elbow, and finished with a row of the same; under-sleeve of muslin bouillonné. The skirt is trimmed with two deep flounces, cut in large scollops round the border, and edged with effilé. White crape chapeau, demi Pamela, the interior of the brim very full, trimmed with nœuds of pink ribbon and white brides, the exterior with rows of lace, and a bouquet of white têtes de plumes. Lace chemisette, made up to the throat, and lace scarf.

DEMI TOILETTE.
No. 7.

Light brown taffeta robe, corsage a la Vierge, and long tight sleeve. The front of the skirt is decorated with a row of nœuds of passementerie to correspond. The bottoms of the sleeves are trimmed with white tulle, arranged in a novel style of bouillonné. Visite of clear muslin, lined with pink crape, and trimmed with bouillonné disposed in the same manner as on the sleeves, and rosettes and ends of pink ribbon. Pink crape chapeau; a small round shape, covered with folds of tulle, and ornamented in a very novel style, with ribbon so disposed as to have the appearance of a tuft of short feathers.

PUBLIC PROMENADE DRESS.
No. 8.

Poult de soie robe of one of the new neutral tints, corsage à revers, and sleeve tight and a three quarter length over a cambric one. The corsage and front of the skirt are embroidered in sontache. Rice straw chapeau, a small round shape, trimmed with green and white shaded ribbon. Fancy silk scarf.

PUBLIC PROMENADE DRESS.
No. 9.

Muslin robe, a half high corsage, demi long sleeves, and the skirt trimmed with flounces. Chapeau of straw-coloured crape bouillonné, a moderately open shape, trimmed with ribbon to correspond. Sultane composed of black lace, with a scarf-pelerine, and trimming of dark blue taffetas glacé.