For The Ladies

[From tho New York Sim.] It will, we know, be a subject for congratulation to all ladies to learn that " calicó dresaes " are again in fasbion. Tliat calicó is no longer kept within doors, in the form of morning wrappers and chamber robes, but brought out in styles that simtüate fonlards; it is goiug, as soon as the tieather is a little warmer, to be scen on the streete, made up in pretty coniposite costumes that can scarcely be distinguiahed from summer silká. The figures and. colora of these calicóes firt iftgeniously made to favor this simulation. They have solid grounds of dark or pale blue, purple, grey, brown, and ftill glossy black, on which are bars, checks, plaids, stripes, or more dashes of color or of white. Some of the stripes are jardiniere; thftt is, flWered. A few have bouquets of flowers or aprigs; comparatively few are sprinkled with leaveá and single flowera on the solid ground. These prints are of all kinds, American, English, and French manufacture. French percales and cámbrica and lawns are also brought out in the same style, and intended likewise to be worn on the strtiet, or on the promenade at watering places and summer reaorts. There are two styles of make-up lor these calicó dressea, equally popular and equally pretty. The firat is the princesa polonaise, worn over a skirt moderately flounced or ruffled. The polonaise ia very long, buttoning up all the way from the bottom to the throat. . It fits tight to the figure, and ia draped in the "pull-back" style in which we are sorry to say all draperies are arranged. The back of the corsase is in the Marguerite style, with a point fitting over a broad box pleated bouffant, which ia looped gracefully over one of .thoae deformities, a long bustle. These are nniversally worn, and with the present style of draping the skirta make a woman look like what Punch styles "a Venus de Medici before and a Venus de Hottentot behind." Tlie tximminga of these calicó costumea are of the same material of a different figure, as, for instance, stripes are ueed to trim figured goods, and plaids for striped, or vice versa. The sleeves, generally of a different kind of calicó trom the basque or corsage, are coat-shaped, and trimmed with severa! overlapping ruffles at the wrist, falling toward the hand, or with deep gauntlets of the trimming material, ïbe other popular style of making priut suits is vith a deep round overakirt, draped back, and a basque with a Continental waistcoat. Sleeves with gauntlet cuffs, and one deep pocket, placed low down on the left side of the skirt.