shionable
coiffure for full evening dress. They should be mounted on a spring or
wire, which passes over the upper part of the head, leaving the feathers
to droop on each side. White ostrich feathers mounted in this style are
frequently tipped with gold or silver. An elegant fancy head-dress, is
composed of feathers, blonde, and gold. On one side, a small tuft of
white marabouts, intermingled with bunches of grapes in gold; on the
other, instead of feathers, puffs of gold blonde, intermingled with
grapes--the back part of the coiffure of a small point or half
handkerchief of gold blonde, edged with gold fringe or passementerie.
Time was, when a milliner would have made three separate head-dresses of
materials composing the one here described; the feathers, the grapes,
and the gold blonde would each have been separately employed, and it
would have been deemed impossible to venture on their combination. But
such is the change in taste, that this head-dress is admitted to be one
of the most becoming productions of the season. A wreath, in the style
called the _guirlande pompadour_, is composed of roses of several shades
of pink, fastened on one side by a bow of azure-blue ribbon, lame with
silver--a bouquet of the same ribbon to fasten up the jupe of the dress,
of white moire antique, trimmed with blonde. A head-dress, in the style
called the coiffure Italleone, is of bows of cerulean blue velvet
mingled with strings of pearls: on each side, ends of blue velvet edged
with aiguillettes of pearls. Pearls and beads of other kinds, especially
those of gold, silver, or coral, are very generally employed in
ornamenting head-dresses. They are twisted with bows of ribbon or
velvet, and are arranged in loops at each side. Loops of coral beads or
of artificial Christmas berries, combined with bouquets of scarlet
geranium, have a pretty effect. Flowers are, as they always have been,
and are likely to continue to be, the favorite coiffures for ball
costume. For young ladies, no other ornaments are admissible.

[Illustration]

In the first of the above figures we have an _Opera Dress_ of white
organdi; the skirt extremely long and full, and with five flounces, each
edged with two rows of narrow lace set on a little full; _Sortie de Bal_
of white cashmere wadded throughout, and lined with satin, couleur de
rose, the form loose, with extremely wide sleeves, and trimmed with
velvet the same color as the lining. When the hood is not drawn