Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18
Fashions for Girls.
CHooL-G iris DRESSES

The convenient mode prescribed for school
girls dresses, says Harper's Basar, is the
box plated blouse-walst with two skirts, or
else the single skirt with a loose belted polo
naise. The dress skirts of girls just in their
teens should reach their ankle; younger girls
are wearing shorter skirts than formerly.
Flax gray linen suits, cool and not easily
soiled, are boon to the schoolgirl. They
should be make simply, and may be entirely
without trimming; at least bralding and
embroidery are superfuous. On the skirt
put one deep kilt pIeatlng, or else two gath
cred straight h0unces hemmed below, and
each headed by bias band. Make the polo
naise a loose double breasted front, with ad-
usted back; hem the edge, or else face 1t !;
put two rows of iarge pearl buttons down
the front; make square pockets and cuffs,
and wear with a Russian leather belt. This
suit will require a white habit shirt beneath :,
but if the polonaise is made single-breasted, ,
the skirt may be dispensed with. For plain
prints, percales and linen lawns, choose those
with fine stripes, or else small polka dots.
Put two straight gathered f0unces eight or
ten inches wide on the skirt; make an apron
front over-skirt with long full back breadths,
and trim with q rut1e, or else merely hem
put from three to five box-pleats IN the back
and front of the blouse, and add standing
English collar, or else high fralse. The
sleeves may be coat-shaped, with cult, or
| else lrill falling on the wrist; II the shirt
sleeves of last summer are worn, the cuff is
turned downward and made fariDg toward
the hand.
| Guipure lace sacques are objects of desire
by Young misses; if simply shaped and
| tastelully made, they serve to make the sImp-
pest lawn sui. look quite dressy. The Ger
man imitation guipure netting, In rose pat
terms or in stripes, Is used for this purpose,
and the edge or border is of real guipure
lace. In very simple sailor shape and in
small sizes these are sold as low as $l2.
For commencement dresses and other gay
occasions, young girls wear white Swiss or
organdy muslin dresses, trimmed with rutfss
edged with Valenciennes, and Frightened up
by wide sash of watered ribbon, or grena-
dine, or of twilled silk placed just below the
waist, around the hips, and knotted loosely
low on the left side Of the back. pretty
model for such dress has four tapping box
plated founces on the skirt, each founce
being five inches deep, and edged with Val
enciennes the simple round Over-skirt ha;
one fJunce, and above it is a row of length
wise bands OF insertion, with a b0x-plalt OF
muslin between; the blouse-waist is formed
entirely OF long bands of insertion, separated
by box-pait high Medici fraise trim'
the neck, and a rufle edges the wrists OF th(
coat sleeves.
The sailor-shaped Rabasas hat of rough
looking MackInaw, trimmed with band anC
: steamers OF black velvet ribbon, is worn b,
yodpg girls Sometimes white daisies or ros
clusters are stuck III the hat-ban0. The ha
is worn far back on the head, or else on on
side in a saucy way that is very becoming t
fresh, piquant faces. The Reubens hat an
the Mcdlci, with the brim turned up hlg
and closely on both sides, are also much at
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