. Demorest's illustrated monthly and Mme Demorest's mirror of fashions, 1865 April . SASH LA RUSSE. Of Mexican blue taffeltus, embroidered with whitesillt in the Grover <fc Uaker stitch. Ends scollojiedout and edged with white yak fringe. A\ai£t-band olsilk, embroidered to match. OUK COLORED PLATES. We are getting up, at great exj-ense, a series of col-ored plates, of which the fruit and llower group in ourlast number was a specimen; notliing like them hasever been attempted before by any magazine. Vai-nished with a solution of gnm arable, they are almostequal to an oil painting. Let our yo
. Demorest's illustrated monthly and Mme Demorest's mirror of fashions, 1865 April . SASH LA RUSSE. Of Mexican blue taffeltus, embroidered with whitesillt in the Grover <fc Uaker stitch. Ends scollojiedout and edged with white yak fringe. A\ai£t-band olsilk, embroidered to match. OUK COLORED PLATES. We are getting up, at great exj-ense, a series of col-ored plates, of which the fruit and llower group in ourlast number was a specimen; notliing like them hasever been attempted before by any magazine. Vai-nished with a solution of gnm arable, they are almostequal to an oil painting. Let our young friends try this means of improvingthem, and they will he astonished at the ArKiL, 1865.] MME. DEMORESTS MIRROR OF FASHIONS. 177 SPRING SHAWLS AND CLOAKS. It is a noticeable fact that, the raria-tioiis in fa^liion from season to season, Inoutside garments, are now nearly alto-gether confined to cloaks and mantles,f-hawls demanding, and feceiving, butlittc attention from those whose searchis after novelties. There are certain kinds ot shawls, how-ever, that are always fashionable, and atthe head of these stands the India crCashmere shawls, the Paisley, es-pecially the finer qualities, is also muche-steemed ard is alwa)8 lady-like. Itdisdains the imitations in color and style(.fleeted by th^ Frencli cashmere, andretains all the monorial respectability ofsome old English squire-archy. These, with the manufactures of laceand the netted house-shawls of silk andwodl, constitute the standard styles, untilwe come to the broche ard plaid woolenshawls, for which there is a perennialdemand among the middle and lowerclasses. Paisley shawls have been steadily ad-vancing i
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