Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-07
FASHIONS.
Gossip About What Children Wear, and
What Is Becoming to Them.

Gossip About What Children Wear, and
What Is Becoming to Them.
No material is more popular for young
misses and little girls street suits than
the soft, checked silks, that are both mod
crate in price and durable IN texture. The
fashion of making them is simple o in
expensive, that is, so far as trimming is
concerned, for nothing but the material
is employed, or the same quality of plain
silk, in box-plaited ruches, raveled out.
At a leading house was seen a very pretty
model designed for a miss of thirteen,
hat embodIes a leading summer style of
trimming. This consisted of the skirt cut
to the tops of the boots, with front and two
side breadths gored in the usual manner,
and two straight bIeadths behind, gathered
full az the back. The material was a grass
green and white checked silk, and the
trimmings We're pinked. On the bottom
of the skirt was a single iounee seven
inches deep. This was headed by three
scant rufties standing upright, n above
another. Each one Of these was caught
to the skirt of the dress at intervals Of an
inch or two, to keep them in place. Il
should be understood that these were all
cut on the bias. A strip of the silk, W
inches wide, and pinked on each edge,
ran round the top of the %1Ounce, to hide
where it joined the ruffies. This was
sewed through the center by two rows Of
machine stitching, a quarter of an inch
apart. The overskirt to this was a short,
square apron front Joined to two pointed,
Wtng-lke sections, each section composed
of three graduating pieces overlapping
the other. The first OF these was trim
med with a strip of the silk three inches
wide representing a hounce, similar to
the bottom of the lower skirt; three
pieces of silk pinked on the upper edge,
rising an inch above the other,
headed this, with a narrower row
through the center. The two upper leaves
had a garniture precisely to match, only
narrower, and consisting of two upright
headings. No jacket or paletot accompa-
MED this, for the street. Instead, there
was a high body closing behind, with
green silk crochet buttons, and bretelles
that gradually widened from the belt to he
shoulders, finished with the same sort
of trimming on the overskirt; the sleeves
were coat, with a pinking of silk around
the waist. to which were added a short
sash and bow, decorated to match. An
other dress was of the same pattern and
shade of silk, with the difference that the
trimmings were composed OF a little dark
err shade of plain glace silk, cut into
straight lengths three inches wide, a Y
eled out on each edge, and box plated in
the center. The Overskirt to this varied
from the other by having a plain pointed
section on the hips, between the apron
and back part of the pannier. This was tor
a girl Of eight, and was cut to reach an
inch or two below the knees.
For anything thicker than this for COM
mon wear and cool days, especially for
travelling, the small black and white
shepherds plaids win be employed, trim
med with bands of black velvet.
For very full dress, to be worn to par
ties, the best qualities of glace silks are
made up with Overskirts of white tulle
edged with pufings or ruches of the
same, and lOoped with tiny bow-knots
the color of the dress, or a pretty contrast,
like very pale pink and blue, or pink and
sea green, with broad ribbon sashes to
correspond. Such toilets are usually low
in the neck; this, however, should be de-
eided a good deal by the beauty of the
shouIder-for it would be in quite as bad
taste to dress a little girl with low corsage
and short sleeves, il her neck n arms
were slim and bony, as it would be if she
had already reached young ladyhood.
Tiny bracelets for the arms are admissa-
be on such occasions; also, a chain neck
Zee, or a ribbon with a locket attached,
Tor the neck.
Fancy coIored shoes are always adopted
for dressy occasions, generally to match
the color of the dress; the same may be
said in regard to gloves.
White Swiss and Paris muslin, elabO-
rately trimmed with V-alenciennes lace,
is still as much worn now as ever by those
children whoSe parents can afford the ex-
pense. But a very pretty material for
handsome dresses, that are to be worn for
semi-dress occasions, is the French main
sock, a very fine sheer texture that looks
like cambria. 1t retains its freshness
much longer han either of the other fab
RIGS mentioned, and looks almost, if not
quite, as lovely. The material is a yard
and a half wide, and sells at 81 30. 1t can
also be made up very elegantly with
Valenciennes lace, but, such garniture
being too expensive for any bat people of
means, a simpler method is
adopted of trimming with ruffies and
tucks. The skirt in this fabric should
be straight, that is, the breedths are not
gored, and are gathered into the belt with
more plainness in front than behind. The
bottom is turned up in a hem three inches
and a half, and a ruffie placed above this,
or on it, the same width our or five tiny
tucks head it, running Straight around,
and then a ruffie, and so on, alternately,
to the knees. The overskirt is straight
like the lower one, with two ruffies and
rows OF tucks. The waist is a French
yoke, outlined by a narrower rufie, and
the coat sleeves have the same, turned up
from the wrist. A sort of open work ma
terial called revering is used a good deal
in place of the tucks, with a colored rib
bon sewed underneath to give it bright
ness. The yoke is also sometimes made
of it.. Victoria lawns from 40 to 20 tents
a yard are used for plain ummer dresses
at home.
As all these little dresses need something
to go over them in the coo days, sailor
sacks Of white honey-comb cloth and
opera flannel, trimmed with raveled-out,
box plated ruches of glace silk are the
ne Plus ultra of fashion.
Girls still wear their hair like naiads Of
the sea, carelessly floating. 1t is gener-
ally dampened and braided up over night,
to give it, when let down, a wavy look.
Very small girls part of the front hair,
comb it pack plainly from the face, braid
and tie it with a bit Of bright ribbon an
inch or two from the ends, which are left
loose and falling over the back hair,
which is floating. Older girls give the
same crinkled appearance to the hair by
braiding, but after 1t is taken out the
front is parted of, and a round comb or
6llet of ribbon passed through or tied
around It. The front locks are then
turned back from the face in a loose fluffy
manner, and caught carelessly with a hair
pin stuck through the comb.
AS the season advances, just enough
variation is noticeable in hats, for adults
as well as children, to make a new one
necessary to those who love variety, and
have plenty of means. The most popular
hat for girls demi-tOilets, is the Tip
Top" a brim hat, with a tiny crown. 1t