Eight pages of illustrations from the July 1858 issue of Peterson's Magazine, covering mid-19th-century women's and children's fashion and needlework. They include a hand-colored Paris fashion plate (Les Modes Parisiennes), millinery and shawl engravings, a watering-place costume, lace mantillas for summer, and children's fashions. Embroidery and needlework patterns include a petticoat bottom, a collar and cuff, a skirt pattern, a baby's bassinet cover, and an escallop shell fringe. There is almost no running text, only captions.