Plate 70.

The back of a collar or cape, about one-half size. Miss Van Houten saw the model from which she embroidered this in the trousseau of a friend, who had just brought it back from Paris. She said it was the only thing for which she envied her friend, who replied, “Then make one like it yourself”; and she did so, in the six weeks before her marriage. It has long lappets in front. (See description of Plate 65.)