NO season has offered such _variétés_ in costume as the early part of the present month. Fancy dresses of the most _outré_ description have appeared, even in the streets. Short waists and long, full sleeves and empty, broad skirts and narrow, whole skirts, half skirts, and none at all, have been indifferently worn. For the _Promenade_, rags and tatters of all kinds have been in much favour; very few buttons are worn; and the coats, waistcoats, and pantaloons, have been invariably padded and stuffed with hay or straw. We observed several _exquisites_ making morning calls in scare-crow great-coats; the skirts, lappels, collars, and cuffs, picturesquely, but not too formally, jagged _à la Vandyke_. The prevailing colours--all colours at once. Wigs have been very general--both _en buzz_ and _frizzé_; these have been commonly composed of deal shavings; but in some cases of tow, and sometimes horse-hair. For the evening party, a few squibs and crackers are stuck in the _perruque_ or hat, and the boots and shoes are polished up with a little pitch or tar; sometimes a Catherine wheel has been added _en coquarde_. Frills, collars, and ruffles, of _papier coupé_, have entirely superseded those of cambric or lace, and shirts of every description are quite discarded. Paint has been in much request, and ruddle seems to have been preferred to _rouge_; patches are also much worn, not on the countenance, but on the clothes; for these the favourite _matériel_ is tartan, plush of any colour, or corduroy. Several dandies appeared on the 5th with gloves, but they are not essential requisites to be in the _ton_: canes are discarded; even a riding-whip would be reckoned to evince _mauvais goût_, but a half-penny bunch of matches “_à la main_” is indispensable to a fashionable aspirant. The old practice of being carried abroad in chairs has been universally revived; and it must be confessed, that it exhibits the Figure to much advantage. [Illustration] Amongst the _Nouveautés_, we observed the following _Caractère_, as making a felicitous _début_. The coast was _à-la-militaire_, of the colour formerly so much in vogue under the name of _fumée de Londres_, turned up with _flamme d’enfer_. It was _garni_ with very dead gold; and slashed _à l’Espagnole_, back and front. The pantaloons were equally _bizarre_; one leg being composed of Scotch tartan, and the other of blue striped bed-ticking, made very full, _en matelot_, in compliance with the prevailing taste for navals. The wig was made of green and white willow shavings, with a large link for a _queue_, tied on with a _nœud_ of red tape. The hat, brown, somewhat darker than the Devonshire beaver, but disinclining to black. It had no brim, and was without a crown. A tarnished badge of the Phœnix Fire Office, on the bust, gave a _distingué_ air to the whole Figure, which was going down Bond-street, and excited a sensation quite _à-l’envie_ by its appearance in the World of Fashion.