HALL DRESS Invented by MM2 Ell 52 JP James: Street Engraved for La Felle Asemblee Tus Fublished Nov. 11810 FASHIONS FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER. FASHIONS FOR NOVEMBER, 1818. EXPLANATION OF THE PRINTS OF FASHION. No. 1.-WALKING DRESS. Garter purple poplin pelisse, ornamented with black velvet: Mary Scot bonnet of garter purple reps silk, ornamented at the edge with a cordon of purple and black flowers, and surmounted by a full plume of tropic birds' feathers, variegated in black and purple. Fan cornette placed under the bonnet; and Castillian double ruff worn under the black velvet cape of the pelisse. Waterloo half-boots of garter purple and black; and lemon-coloured kid gloves. No. 2.-BALL DRESS. Ceres frock, with a very broad border of wheat ears in straw, worked on tulle, and worn over a white satin slip. Toque turban of tulle, elegantly worked with straw to correspond, with Turkish foldings in front of crape and straw interspersed. Henrietta ruff of fine lace, fixed low, and terminating at the shoulders. White satin shoes, and white kid gloves. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON FASHION AND DRESS. 181 of Kent, in St. James's-street: and without farther remarks on that uurivalled taste she has ever displayed in the different articles of female attire, we shall briefly lay before our readers a few new inventions to be seen at her repository. And first, for out-door costume, we beg leave to present to our readers the description of a most elegant carriage pelisse of amaranth-coloured velvet, with a standing up collar; this pelisse is beautifully ornamented with a facing and bordering of the Aix-la-Chapelle trimming, in rich and elegant vandyke puckerings of alternate white and amaranth satin; with this is worn the Aix-la-Chapelle hat, made to correspond, and surmounted by the alliance plume, a beautiful triple ornament of white feathers. Velvets in every article of dress promise to be very prevalent this season; already they have made their appearance in that comfortable and highly appropriate walking costume for November, the spenser. In these the colours vary, and are mostly of a light and summer-like hue; fawn colour, with silk cordons of Pomona green, dove colour with blue, and French grey with maiden's blush. At Mrs. Bell's Mayazın de Modes we have seen a Hussar spenser of black velvet, highly and beautifully finished à-la-militaire. There has been but little alteration in the hats for the promenade; the most approved are of the new shape represented in our Print, and are, for the retired morning walk, generally black. The carriage hats are more various; those of French grey velvet and satin intermingled, with a full THE most eminent and tasteful priestesses of the fashionable toilet are now all preparing to quit their temporary repositories at the different watering-places, and are about to resume their stations in the metropolis, in order to await the arrival of their numerous patronesses of rank and fashion with every auxiliary of taste, invention, and elegance, to aid and, if possible, addplume of feathers of the same colour, are grace to the unrivalled forms of Britannia's lovely daughters. Foremost among those whom genius patronizes, and whom fancy delights in instructing, may be classed the Marchande de Modes of her Royal Highness the Duchess || chaste and elegant. Carriage bonnets for morning excursions are large; some of these are of white and coloured satin in quarters, and are finished by a long drooping white feather; others of fancy straw with coloured satin stripes, with a full plume of white feathers; and a few black velvet hats have already been seen in carriages, surmounted by that elegant appendage a full plume of small white feathers falling, and beautifully playing over the front of the hat, which is partially turned up; to those whose complexions are only tolerably fair this hat is truly becoming; to a belle blonde it is beyond all praise. We have been favoured with the sight of some black velvet dresses now in preparation for the cold and gloomy days of November. They are chiefly calculated for evening parties, but may be adopted as dinner dresses: their sombre hue is finely relieved by rouleaux of white satin round the border over a broad and superb flounce of white blond of a rich and striking pattern. With these dresses are generally expected to be worn a dress hat of black velvet with white feathers, or of white satin, ornamented with the feathers of the tropic bird, a new and unique article of taste and value. Cabinet of Taste; OR MONTHLY COMPENDIUM OF FOREIGN By a Parisian Correspondent. COSTUME OF PARIS. WHEN you bade me adieu a few days since, after passing an unpleasant fortnight in Paris, you seemed half to repent your having taken a trip to this capital at the unpropitious season of short and rainy days; you have, however, you say, considerably enlarged your correspondence on the Continent;-tant mieux. I shall proceed then to perform the part which you have alloted to me, and with which you highly gratified me by saying you were pleased, as your own ocular demonstration made you find my fashionable intelligence to be correct. I will now proceed to state to you what few alterations have taken place since your departure. You were an eye witness that our French ladies of the present day are very unlike those at the latter end of the last century; Next in estimation to the fine light silk velvet, are poplins and reps silk; which latter article is chiefly in requisition for half dress, while cambrics and India muslin | they brave the cold; nor are they retarded still maintain their station at the breakfast table, and for the receiving of personal morning visits. With the déjeûné costume is worn an elegant cornette of an entire new shape, made of very fine net or cypress tiffany, with lace let simply in, but not in profusion, and its sole ornaments narrow rouleaux of pearl-coloured satin: the Mary Scot cornette is also much worn in undress. Amongst the other head-dresses is the dinner cornette à-la-Soubrette, with full crown of net and rouleaux of white satin, separated from the head-piece by a wreath of various kinds of flowers: cornettes for friendly visits are smaller, and are crowned on the summit with a full wreath of half blown moss roses. even by a keen north wind from taking the wholesome exercise of walking: among these our hardy belles, pelisses of coating are preparing, and are expected to be very general for the walking costume this winter. At present the pelisses are made of twilled sarsnet, with capes and lapels, of a different colour to the pelisse, which buttons down the front with straps the same colour as the lapels, each strap having a handsome ornamental button: the sleeves are slashed with satin at the top à l'Espagnole. The pelerine tippets, which you said fatigued your eyes by their sameness in the walks of the Thuilleries, are more in favour than ever, but they have undergone some trifling change; they are now made with long ends, and are generally confined by a broad There is yet a kind of stagnation in fa-sash of ribband; these ends are made one shion this month, till the winter modes become fixed; but we can conclude our observations with the theatrical assurance, that " several novelties are in preparation." longer than the other, and the longest often descends as far as to the hem of the gown border; the sashes are tied before, and the ends hang down with those of the pelerines. Spensers are made to turn back in front The favourite colours are garter purple, with buttons, and have sashes also worn amaranth, a very light shade of fawn-co-with them tied before the sleeves are lour, and French grey. puckered full at the top, and are often |