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LA BELLE ASSEMBLEE.

FASHIONS

For AUGUST, 1807.

EXPLANATION OF THE PRINTS OF FASHION.

ENGLISH COSTUME.

KENSINGTON-GARDEN DRESSES.

No. 1.-A plain cambric round dress, a walking length. Roman spencer of celestial blue sarinet, with Vandyke lappels and falling collar; finished with the same round the bottom of the waist, and flowing open in front of the bosom. A village hat of Imperial chip, with bee-hive Crown, confined under the chin with ribbon the

colour of the spencer. Cropped hair, divided in the centre of the forehead with full curls. Gloves and shoes of lemon-coloured kid. Parasol of salmon-coloured sarsnet.

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jonquil sarsnet, ornamented with a wreath of similar flowers. Hair a waved crop; oval hoop earrings; York tan gloves; shoes of jonquille kid; parasol of bright lavender blos om.

cambric, with gored bosom, and slasheri sizeves. No. 4.A plain round gown of the firest Lace tucker, with hell-s. Doed edge. Robe pelice of jasnot muslin, bordered all round with needle-work and Vai vke. A Gipsy hat of satin straw, with edge d-la Levaux frise tied across the crown, and under the, chi with a handkerchief of Par n, or coloured sor-net. Bosom of the gown confined with a bow of ribbon to correspond. Straw-coloured kid gloves and shoes. Parasol of shaded green sarsuet.

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GENERAL OBSERVATIONS

ON THE

PRESENT STYLE OF FASHIONABLE DECORATION.

HAVING given, in regular progression, our delineations and remarks on the various fashions of the passing season, we at length offer to our several readers a close of equal animation, attraction, and splendor. We scarcely ever witnessed a peri d when taste and fashion were more perfectly in unison; nor any season when clegance and grace shone with such unrivalled fascination. Not only amidst the assemblies of rank and opulence, but in those simple unob trusive adornments appropriated to the intermediate station-in those chaste habits becoming

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