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Paris Fashions for April, 1856. 'The three figures represent the newest forms of sleeves and corsages which have appeared this season...Chapeau de Taffetas, rose, trimmed with ribbons and little May-roses in the cap...Robe: stripes of colour on colour, and à Grecques découpées; four flounces to the skirt...Corsage à pointe, ornamented with braces découpées...Under-sleeves of English point lace...Flowers: Forgot-me-not in the cap. Lace scarf rounded off behind. Robe of taffetas d'ltalie mauve...Robe of gros de Tours, with flounces, the first formed by a wide round basquine, and covering, turn by turn, the skirt...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.