Seven pages of engraved illustrations from the August 1858 issue of Peterson's Magazine. They include a hand-colored Paris fashion plate (Les Modes Parisiennes) and a set of needlework and costume patterns: marking names and initials, petticoat and child's dress embroidery, handkerchief corners, insertions, a patchwork quilt pattern, an appliqué glove-box top, a chain-stitch night-cap, a braiding pattern and a black lace mantilla. It also shows a patented adjustable bustle skirt frame. Captions are the only text.