from shoulder, the rest velvet, tight to arm; square Italian head-dress striped, with coloured beads round neck. PEASANT GIRL. Pink silk skirt with claret velvet round the hem: white silk apron striped horizontally with many colours; claret velvet bodice with pink revers over low-cut waistcoat to match, crossed with gold bands, long sleeves; coral necklace; head-dress to match apron, fastened with gold pins; tambourine in hand. (See Italian.)
NEEDLES AND PINS. This dress is after the Mother Hubbard order. (See Hubbard and Workbox.) A quilted skirt, with chintz train; low black velvet bodice, fichu; powdered hair; cap and pointed velvet hat. In front of the dress every kind of needle and pin is inserted. Pins forming the motto: "Needles and pins, needles and pins; when a man marries his troubles begin," on the train.
NÉGLIGÉ DRESS, 1791. Petticoat and sacque of brocade, with ruffles; pointed shoes; feather and pearls in hair; mouche on cheek and chin. A négligé is often made of muslin, trimmed with lace, and looped up with ribbons over petticoat.
NELL GWYNNE. Long pink skirt, with blue tunic; low bodice; full puffed sleeves, slashed at shoulder; hair curled and confined by pink ribbon; low muslin fichu about the shoulders, the ends tucked into the front of bodice. She is accompanied by a pet lamb. Or, blue satin skirt draped with brocade; black velvet bodice with the Nell Gwynne hat having loops of satin ribbon; blue stockings and shoes.
NEWHAVEN FISHWOMAN. (See Fish-girls, &c.)
NEWSPAPERS. (See Press.)
NICKLEBY, MRS. Widow's cap; a plain skirted black gown, a pointed bodice cut en cœur at the neck, with a turn-down collar and bishop sleeves, with muslin cap; or, instead of the cap, a large old-fashioned coal-scuttle bonnet, with plaited border and large veil, or with a close plaited border to a cap with a raised crown. Sometimes she has a shawl about her shoulders; sometimes a pelerine coming to the shoulders, with a frill round.
NIGHT. A long black tulle fashionably-made evening dress, spangled with silver stars and crescents, silver crescent ornaments, silver belt; a crescent on the head, and long crescent
