A set of 18 engraved and hand-colored plates from Peterson's Magazine, March 1858, showing mid-19th-century fashion and needlework. They include Paris fashion plates, bonnets, head-dresses, collars, sleeves, children's fashions, a morning robe, a fichu and a basque. Needlework designs include embroidery patterns, braiding, a chain-stitch cuff, a bead-net head-dress, a toilet sachet, a slipper watch-basket, and crochet items (a square-crochet d'oyley and a petticoat border). The pages are almost entirely illustrations with captions only.