The fashions for the winter 1677-78 (figs. 16-19) may be followed in the pages of the _Mercure Galant_, but, since these four fashion plates were also distributed separately, their connection with it has often been overlooked. The same is true of the large engraving of the interior of a milliner’s shop (fig. 20), the items in which were numbered and described in the text of the _Mercure Galant_. Donneau de Visé depended on trade support and took the opportunity to mention names wherever he could. The new fabrics displayed below the shelves are distinguished by letters; the one on the right (letter M), for example, is an Italian yellow satin brocaded with white and violet. Other small figured fabrics, he wrote, might be obtained away from the Palais “chez le Sieur Baroy, au Cloître Saint Opportune,” and ribbons might be found from Sieur le Gras in the Palais itself. The editor de Visé gives thanks to M. Bérain (1637-1711), designateur ordinaire du Cabinet du Roy, and to M. Lepautre (1618-82) for engraving the plates. [Illustration: Figure 21.--SUMMER DRESS of a gentleman. He wears a linen waistcoat garnished with lace, and a long wig (cf. fig. 18). From the _Extraordinaire_ of the _Mercure Galant_, June 1678. (Author’s collection.) {caption at end}] The summer fashions for 1678 were illustrated in the next _Extraordinaire_ number published on July 20 and represented by a gentleman (fig. 21) and his lady (fig. 22). Details of these plates are poor, and, although they are taken from the Dutch edition, the original designer and engraver must have been far less competent than either Bérain or Lepautre. [Illustration: Figure 22.--SUMMER DRESS of a lady with a pleated lace (_Point d’Angleterre_) petticoat. From the _Extraordinaire_ of the _Mercure Galant_, June 1678. (Author’s collection.) {caption at end}] The winter fashions for 1678-79 were described in a long article in the ordinary October number of the _Mercure Galant_, which, for the costume historian, is of great importance, since it deals among other topics with the evasion of the sumptuary legislation by the fashionable world. The fashion plates are by a new artist and are reduced to two (figs. 23 and 24). [Illustration: Figure 23.--GENTLEMAN in winter attire supposedly just returned from the army. He ordered his gray cloth suit from Sieur Gaultier, whose shop, “A la Couronne,” was located in the Rue des Bourdonnais. From the _Mercure Galant_, October 1678. (Author’s collection.) {Habit d’Hyver 1678}]