home costume; the trimmings are all of blond, en serpentine, the interstices filled up by gauze ribbons of lapis-blue. Turbans of richly-striped gauze, both white and coloured, are more worn in half-dress than caps; they are smaller than those worn in full dress, and infinitely more becoming. Young ladies, as is usual in the summer months, wear only their hair, well arranged, in plats, ringlets, or large long curls, according as they best suit their features. When flowers are placed in blond caps at friendly parties, they are but sparingly disposed, and consist chiefly of flowers full blown, especially the summer rose. Diadem combs of pearls, placed on the summit of the head, behind a row of large curls, while the smaller ringlets play over the forehead in a light and easy manner, are much admired for evening parties; and this manner of dressing the head is universally becoming. Many dress-hats of a novel kind have appeared at Vauxhall, and at some distinguished assemblies, or parties in the country; the most admired are of French-white gros de Naples, ornamented with roses and hedge-foliage of different colours; they are made to fly very much off the face, and are far from becoming, as they impart much breadth to the face, which, if rather broad by nature, receives by this head-dress an appearance of vulgarity.

The favourite colours are blue of all shades, pink, straw-colour, butter-cup-yellow, green, lilac, and aurora.

Cabinet of Taste,

OR MONTHLY COMPENDIUM OF FOREIGN COSTUME.

By a Parisian Correspondent.

COSTUME OF PARIS.

THOUGH I am willing to allow that the style and taste of English costume has improved in a wonderful degree for some ne years, and that it still continues to improve in rapid progression; yet, without deeming me guilty of nationality, you must allow me to say that every new mode in France is original, and owes nothing to the copyist, while every court belonging to the civilized part of the globe imitates

our fashions, and declares, as par excellence," this is such as is now most in fashion at PARIS!

We, too, sometimes imitate your modes; and the elegant specimens of fashion contained in LA BELLE ASSEMBLEE are much admired by many of my countrywomen: it is but just, therefore, that I should, according to my promise, state to you the changes in our fashions, for your fair subscribers to adopt, imitate, or reject, as may best please them; for it must be confessed that fashion is so whimsical, that some of her grotesque changes deserve to be rejected by good taste.

The weather during the commencement of July was so warm, that even the light muslin canezou was too oppressive for outdoor wear; and elegant scarfs of black or white blond were the only covering over the promenade dresses. As the weather became at times more varied, or in the cool of the evening, many ladies were seen in silk pelisses; one was much admired, of gros de Naples, the colour of the Parma violet; it was trimmed down the front of the skirt and round the border, with a rûche of mingled violet-colour and amber. A carriage pelisse of lilac gros de Naples, trimmed with lilac and straw-coloured rúches intermingled, is also much in esteem. A lady of distinction was lately seen in a carriage with a white blond shawl handkerchief, the collar consisting of three rows of pointed blond.

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The Leghorn hats, which are very numerous, are now often seen adorned with long feathers, sometimes five, sometimes Other hats of this material are trimmed with a cordon of different flowers, with a few blades of grass. White chip and white cotton hats yet prevail. On several of these latter hats is seen a branch of foliage without flowers: sometimes the ornament is five or six ears of maize. A hat has appeared and promises to be fashionable, of celestial-blue gros d'Eté; it is trimmed with straw-colour in long puffings of the same material, and cars of corn. Most of the Leghorn hats are trimmed with two ribbons, each of different colours, in bows, generally pink and sea-green; these hats are ornamented with one plume of cocks' feathers, part of which are the colour of the lees of wine, the other dark