. Then there are travelling-dresses in black silk, in
pongee, velour, in pique, which range in price from $75 to $175. Then
there are evening robes in Swiss muslin, robes in linen for the garden
and croquet-playing, dresses for horse-races and for yacht-races, _robes
de nuit_ and _robes de chambre_, dresses for breakfast and for dinner,
dresses for receptions and for parties, dresses for watering-places, and
dresses for all possible occasions. A lady going to the Springs takes
from twenty to sixty dresses, and fills an enormous number of Saratoga
trunks. They are of every possible fabric--from Hindoo muslin, 'gaze de
soie,' crape maretz, to the heavy silks of Lyons.

"We know the wife of the editor of one of the great morning newspapers of
New York, now travelling in Europe, whose dress-making bill in one year
was $10,000! What her dry-goods bill amounted to heaven and her husband
only know. She was once stopping at a summer hotel, and such was her
anxiety to always appear in a new dress that she would frequently come
down to dinner with a dress basted together just strong enough to last
while she disposed of a little turtle-soup, a little Charlotte de Russe,
and a little ice cream.

"Mrs. Judge ---, of New York, is considered one of the 'queens of
fashion.' She is a goodly-sized lady--not quite so tall as Miss Anna
Swan, of Nova Scotia--and she has the happy faculty of piling more
dry-goods upon her person than any other lady in the city; and what is
more, she keeps on doing it. To give the reader a taste of her quality,
it is only necessary to describe a dress she wore at the Dramatic Fund
Ball, not many years ago. There was a rich blue satin skirt, _en train_.
Over this there was looped up a magnificent brocade silk, white, with
bouquets of flowers woven in all the natural colors. This overskirt was
deeply flounced with costly white lace, caught up with bunches of
feathers of bright colors. About her shoulders was thrown a
fifteen-hundred dollar shawl. She had a head-dress of white ostrich
feathers, white lace, gold pendants, and purple velvet. Add to all this
a fan, a bouquet of rare flowers, a lace handkerchief, and jewelry almost
beyond estimate, and you see Mrs. Judge --- as she appears when full
blown.

"Mrs. General --- is a lady who goes into society a great deal. She has
a new dress for every occasion. The following costume appeared at the
Charity Ball, which is _the_ great ball of the year i