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THE COURT MAGAZINE.

FASHIONS FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST, 1833.

ARCHERY DRESS.

THE dress is forest green gros de Naples, the corsage of the half pelisse form, high behind, very open on the bosom, and with a lappel which, forming a round pelerine on the back and shoulders, descends in the stomacher shape to the waist. The sleeves, moderately wide at the upper part of the arm, are shaped to fit it exactly from the elbow to the wrist. Blond lace chemisette very open in front, with a falling collar of the pelerine shape. Cherry-coloured taffeta belt. Head dress, a toque of forest green poux de soie, trimmed with a gold band next the face, and a single short black ostrich feather placed on the left side. Bottines of gros Americain to correspond with the dress.

OPERA DRESS.

The robe is composed of poux de soie, a new shade of green, glacée de blanc. Corsage of the demi redingote kind, the shawl part falling very deep over the back and shoulders, is arranged on the latter with a slight degree of fulness, so as to form mancherons: it is cut at the border in round dents, and open on the bosom, displaying a chemisette of plain blond. A row of broad blond lace set on full, stands up in the Medicis style round the back and shoulders, and descends on each side of the bust, becoming gradually narrower to the waist. Short sleeves of white gros de Naples, with blond sabots. Head-dress a beret of a small size, composed of an intermixture of green and white grenadine gauze, and trimmed with a bouquet of short, white ostrich feathers, placed upright on the right side; an esprit attached to the bouquet droops to the left. Gold ear-rings and neck-chain.

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pointed before. Pelerine-canezou of blond lace. A double fall encircles the back and shoulders, the front forms a stomacher. A narrow heading of blond lace stands up round the bust. A fall of lace descends en tablier on each side of the skirt. The hair is parted on the forehead, disposed in full curls at the sides, and twisted in a knot at the back of the head. A wreath of marguerites brought low upon the forehead, passes round the knot of hair, and is intermixed with it. Gold earrings, neck-chain of twisted gold; the pendents, and those attached to the point of the is black blond lace. corsage, are of fancy jewellery, the mantelet

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON FASHIONS AND

DRESS.

VARIETY in materials at least appears to be the order of the day in promenade dress. Clear muslin pelisses, lined with coloured sarsenet, or gros de Naples, and fastened down the front by knots of gauze riband to correspond with the lining, are still as fashionable as they were the beginning of the season; but there is a considerable alteration in the form of the pelerines worn with them. Some are small and round, a double fall, with a square collar trimmed with English lace. Others are pointed in front, and with the material arranged full upon the shoulder, so

as to have the effect of a mancheron. A third kind are quite square, like those worn last year, but not near so large. Whatever may be the form of the pelerine, it is always embroidered, or trimmed with lace. Clear muslin, printed in delicate patterns, and in colours partly full, and partly light, is fashionable for dresses, but not so much so as washing silks bouquets of pink flowers. with white grounds, printed in very small

The most novel shawls are of a new and

peculiarly rich kind of black gauze; they

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are of rather a large size, square, and with broad borders, richly embroidered in different coloured silks, either in fancy patterns, or in flowers. Notwithstanding their lightness, their black ground, and the glaring colours in which it is embroidered, render them by no means appropriate to summer costume.

Poux de soie is the most fashionable material for silk bonnets; white and rose colour are most in request. All have the brim made open across the forehead; but we see some long, others short at the ears. The crown is either of the cone form, and high, or else it is of a round shape, with the material disposed in folds. If riband alone is employed to trim a bonnet, there is only a single light knot on one side, and another behind. If flowers are used, they are sparingly employed, and without any mixture of riband, except the brides. Rice straw and crape bonnets are also fashionable. A good many of the latter are of the drawn kind. Black veils, both of blond and real lace, but particularly the latter, are very much in request.

Poux de soie, mousseline Indoue, painted Pekin, and mousseline de Soie, are the fashionable materials in evening dress. Corsages are cut extremely low round the bust, and are covered, at least partially, by mantelets or canezous of black or white blond lace. Short sleeves, of the double sabot kind, are the most in favour. Head-dresses are principally of hair in evening dress; they are always decorated with flowers. Wreaths and bouquets are equally fashionable. Roses, marguerites, pinks, sprigs of hawthorn in blossom, jessamine, and honeysuckle are all in request. Fashionable colours are the lighter shades of green and blue, straw colour, lilac, different shades of rose and dust colour, and some fancy colours.

COSTUME OF PARIS. BY A PARISIAN
CORRESPONDENT.

It is now the season when the Parisians enjoy the freshness of the evening in the delightful gardens of Tivoli or the superb promenade of the Champs Elysées. The dresses are in general remarkable for the simplicity of their form, and the lightness of their materials, which are nevertheless of a very expensive kind. White organdi, or India muslin, either plain, embroidered, or striped in thick or thin stripes, is extremely fashionable. The peignoir form is most in request. The most elegant of these dresses are trimmed with very broad Valenciennes lace, thickly quilled; the pelerine is double and trimmed in the same manner. Half trans

parent materials of Cachmere wool, of silk and wool, and of foulard grenadin are also made en peignoir. These dresses are always worn over white gros de Naples or sarsenet slips.

The few robes worn by women of high fashion are composed of painted Pekin. They have a white ground, flowered in running patterns of small delicate flowers, in vivid but not glaring hues.

Black lace mantelets are as much worn as ever, but those of blond are now preferred to real lace; indeed the latter is declining very fast in favour, and will probably be quite out of fashion by the end of the season. A good many mantelets are of plain blond net, with a pelerine back and scarf fronts, which descend below the knee. Others have sharp pointed ends, which reach very little below the waist; they descend to the waist behind, and have collars that turu back in the shawl style. The lace employed to trim mantelets is of a very broad and rich kind.

The most novel hats have the brim of rice straw, and the crown of gros de Naples; the former is small and round, the latter of a helmet shape, and drawn longitudinally. The prettiest are those that have the brim lined with rose-coloured gauze riband, the crown of gros de Naples to correspond, and a sprig of flowers of the double-blossom peach placed on one side. A new material for hats, but one which has not yet been generally adopted, is of the fancy kind; it is called bois de Spa Cresontine, and made in different colours, some plain, others quadrilled. These hats are profusely trimmed with gauze ribands and field flowers, and have the edge of the brim bordered with a full ruche of plain blond net. The most fashionable of the new bonnets are composed of gauze ribands joined together; the ribands are disposed in drapery on the crown, and the brims are somewhat deeper than those made of other materials. They are trimmed with sprigs of flowers of one kind only.

Peignoirs of the blouse form are universally adopted in morning dress. They are made very full in front, and the corsage and skirt in one piece. Jaconas-chalys, or cachemires, are the materials most in favour for these dresses. They are worn with collerettes of embroidered muslin, two or three rows of which are quilled to fall over a riband that supports them round the throat, and ties before.

Fashionable colours are rose, bleu-Louise, écrue, cherry, oiseau, aile de mouche, and some of the lighter shades of green.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

THE author of "Selwyn" has a new volume in the press, entitled "Olympia Morata: her Times, Life and Writings." This work has been arranged and compiled from contemporary and other authorities.

"The Van Diemen's Land Almanack" for the current year has just reached this country, and will be published in a few days.

Mr. James Baillie Fraser, the author of "The Kuzzilbash," "The Highland Smugglers," &c. has contributed a volume to the "Library of Romance." It is a Persian Romance, entitled “The Khan's Tale." “Mr. Agassiz's Journey to Switzerland, and Pedestrian Tours in that Country," will appear early this month, accompanied by a general account of Switzerland.

"Friendship's Offering" (the oldest but one of our English Annuals), will appear this season, with its usual style of elegant illustrations and binding,

while its literature will comprise contributions from the most popular writers of the age.

"The Comic Offering," edited by Miss Sheridan, will be published at the same time, bound in mo. rocco, and embellished with upwards of sixty hu-. mourous designs, by various comic artists, and enriched by contributions from the principal female, and other eminent writers of the day.

Mrs. Bray is now preparing a uniform edition of her very popular "Historical and Legendary Romances," to be published in monthly volumes, neatly done up, and at a moderate price; the whole series to be comprised in fifteen or eighteen volumes.

The Rev. Charles Tayler has commenced a series of narratives, in the same style and on the same subjects as Miss Martineau's Political Works, under the title of "Social Evils and their Remedy." The first number, entitled "The Mechanic," will ap pear on the first of September.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

BIRTHS.

At Leyton, Essex, the lady of William Taylor Copeland, Esq., M.P., of a daughter.

At East Horsley, Surry, the lady of the Hon. and Rev. A. P. Perceval, of a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

At Holt, by the Rev. W. R. Taylor, Rector of Barmingham, Thomas Andrews Girling, Esq., of the Grove, Holt, Captain H. P. 5th regiment, to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of the late William

At Woolwich, the lady of Robert Dashwood, of Withers, Esq., solicitor, Holt, Norfolk.

the Royal Engineers, of a daughter.

At St. George's, Hanover-square, Lord Albert

At Arklow House, Connaught Place, the Vis- Conyngham, second son of the late Marquis

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Conyngham, to the Hon. Henrietta Maria, fourth daughter of the late Lord Forester.

At St. James's Church, Captain Charles Crespigny Vivian, eldest son of Sir Hussey Vivian, Bart., Commander of the Forces in Ireland, to Miss Scott, neice to the Earl of Meath.

At Blairvaddoch, Charles Forbes, Esq., second son of the late Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo and Fettercairn, Bart., to Jemima Rebecca, daughter of the late Colonel Ranaldson Macdonell of Glengarry

and Clanronald.

At St. James's Church, William Hawes, Esq., of Montague Place, Russell Square, to Anna, daughter of Samuel Cartwright, Esq., of Old Burlington Street.

At Florence, Alexander Bower, Esq., eldest son of Graham Bower, Esq., of Kincaldrum, Scotland, to the Countess Plagie Kossakowska, daughter of the Count Corwin Kossakowska and the Countess Louisa Potocki, Poland.

At St. George's, Bloomsbury, George Hinde Cripps, Esq., of his Majesty's Civil Service, Cey

lon, to Sarah Elizabeth, second daughter of the late Edward Bullock, Esq., of Jamaica, and of Upper Bedford Place.

At St. Mary's, Bryanston Square, David Thurlow Cunynghame, eldest son of Sir David Cunynghame of Milncraig, Bart., to Anne, third daughter of Lieut.-Gen. the Hon. Robert Meade.

At Westgate Church, Canterbury, J. G. Dalhousie Taylor, Esq., Captain 13th Light Infantry, youngest son of the late Lieut.-Col. Taylor, 20th Light Dragoons, to Sarah Eliza Knyvets, eldest daughter of William Knyvets, Esq., of Ryde, Isle of Wight.

DEATHS.

At Bamff, Lady Dunbar, relict of the late Sir William Dunbar of Durn, Bart., in her 90th year.

At Henlow, Bedfordshire, of apoplexy, in his 68th year, the Rev. John Francis Stuart, Rector of Lower Gravenhurst.

At his house in Manchester Square, Jeremiah Cloves, Esq., in his 79th year.

son of Captain Holman, R. N., and nephew of the celebrated blind traveller. This fine promising young man was 3rd officer of the Horatio, bound to Madras and Calcutta, and he met with his untimely end by falling overboard from that ship in the middle of the night, to the eastward of the Cape of Good Hope.

At his residence, Dover House, Whitehall, Lord Dover, in his 36th year.

Of an apoplectic attack, in his 44th year, the Right Hon. the Earl of Plymouth.

At Great Marlow, Lady Mortlock, widow of Sir John Mortlock.

At St. Alban's Place, Pall Mall, Captain Charles Julius Kerr, of the Royal Navy.

At his residence, Upper Phillimore Place, Kensington, the Rev. Dr. Thomas B. Clarke.

At Farleigh, in Kent, Martha Maria Beresford, widow of the late Rev. William Beresford, Rector of Sunning, Berks, in her 88th year.

At Wimbledon, Sir William Beaumaurice Rush,

At his seat, Baltinglass, Wicklow, the Earl of in his 83rd year. Alborough, in his 50th year.

In Lower Mount Street, the Most Rev. Dr.

Mr. William Henry Holman, in his 17th year, Laffan, Catholic Archbishop of Cashel.

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