American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-05-15

Misses Dresses.
MOTHERS have had so much difficulty
in finding appropriate dresses for young
girls just in their teens that furnishing
houses are now making an extra effort to
supply this want. Brown and Quaker
| grays are the accepted colors for these
| demoise]les as well as for their mothers /;
the fabrics are also the same, de bege
and camel's hair over silk being made
up for them in plain colors and in plaids.
The basque, sacque and long, round over
| skirt, or else more fanciful apron, are
the features of girls costumes The
pleated waist so becoming to slight fig
| ures is also used for them, both for plain
| and dressy suits. These waists and
basques may button behind or before &C
| cording to fancy.
For misses of sixteen years there are
| pretty suits of gray camel's-hair sold at
| the furnishing houses for $45. The skirt
reaches to the ankles, and is trimmed
| with shirred tiounce of the material,
edged with a nife-pleating of dark
brown silk. The deep apron over-skirt
Is of plaid gray shades. 1t is pointed in
front, and the plaid is cut bias the sides
are SHRED; the back il very bouffant,
| and the entire edge is piped with brown
silk. The basque is plaid, with brown
silk tabs behind; the sleeves are plain.
Byron collars of the silk used for
trimming the dress and inside linen
collars of the same youthful shape are
worn by young girls.
Vegetable ivory buttons of polished
gray or brown are used ON children's
clothes. They are appropriate and SUBJ
stantial.
De bege is durable fabric for school
dresses and for second-best suits. Plain
gray de bege dresses are made with
basques trimmed with six folds or pleats
OF silk down the front and corded on the
edge. This is most stylish when brown
silk Is used, but gray is sometimes pre-
ferred, and sometimes dark blue. Pock-
Ella of the silk are set on and trimmed
with vegetable ivory buttons and imita-
ton butDn-holes. A belt of the de bege
is worn with basques that have pleated
ffOnts. The apron over-skirt is very
deep IN front and is shirred behind. The
lower skirt has knife-pleating. Such a
dress for girl of fourteen years costs
thirty seven dollars.
Another fashion for girls from fourteen
years OF age down to very small girls is
that of making kilt skirts with side
pleated basques. These are made of
plain or plaid de bege and are trimmed
with gros grain bows of some deep color
prevailing in the plaid. They cost from
fifteen to thirty five dollars suit.
Sailor blouse-waists, with kilt skirt of
the. same plaid wool fabrics, are also
worn by, girls from two to twelve
plaids are used for these pretty little
suits, and the front has row of long
Topped bows of gros grain ribbon. They
have tufned-down sailor collars corded
with silk, cuffs with three buttons set in
a row, and belts of the material fastened
by rosette. Price $3.50 to $13.
Moro dressy suits for girls from eight
to sixteen years of age are made of silk,
partly plain and partly plaid. For in
stance, the lower skirt and sleeves are
of solid blue silk. while the basque and
upper skirt are OF blue and white plaid.
Blue, brown and gray are the leading
eolors for such suits, and sometimes
there are lines or bars of brighter color
Introduced. A skirt of very dark brown
silk has plaid shirred over-skirt made
up of ecru, blue and brown. The BASQUE
is of plaid, and the sleeves are plain
brown. A single shirred fiounce seven
or eight inches deep, edged with very
narrow frill of knife pleating, is the
of young girls dresses. Two rows of
knife-pleating, each about four inches
deep, are also SEEM The bas1ues of
their most dressy suits are in the French
shapes, with very long sides, or else they
are shorter behind than before The
Louisine silks, lightly twilled or else
basket woven, are liked for these youth
full dresses; they form only parts of suits,
as they need solid color to tone down
their brightness.
Linen suits for the summer are of gray
or brown undressed linen. They are
usually in three pieces-basque, over
skirt and walking skirt-and are trimmed
with pleatings and bias bands of
the same. The French basque and the
looser French sacque are made up of this
linen; with the sacque q side-pleated
waist of white muslin is worn. At
some houses these gray linen suits are
deliberately braided with colors, either
brown, blue or black. They cost from
So to 12. For very small children gray
linens are made up with kilt skirts and
sailor blouses.
A novelty for little girls dresses IS
thick linen batiste, buff, blue or pink,
richly wrought with English embroidery
in white. Some of these dresses have
the little skirt covered with embroidery;
the body is then an infants waist or
blouse, with belt, collar, and long sleeves.
Scotch gingham, French cambria and
day dresses, are in broken plaids, checks
and stripes. They are simply made, and
trimmed with bias bands of the material.
Many of these soft-fnished percales re-
semble silk SO nearly as almost to defy
detection, and when made up with nice
attention to details are very attractive.
Dark blue is very popular in these ging-
ham dresses, and those with mingled
blue and rose are gay and youthful
looking.
The wraps for misses and children are
jaunty Jackets of gray, blue, or brown
cloth of very light quality and color.
They are made with French backs that
are quite short, and with longer, loose,
single-breasted fronts. The collars are
Byron shape. and the sleeves are closely
cut. with pleatcd silk on the wrists.
Dark blue and black jackets are also
shown
The new water proof cloaks for girls
are listers, with belt in the back, sew
eral pockets, double breasted fronts but
toned their full length like a redingote,
and folded pointed hood large enough
to be of service. They are made of
light English waterproof, and gray is
the popular color. They should be long
enough to cover the entire dress. Price