Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-21
Little Girls Clothes.

first put on up to five or six years of age
are still popular when the yokes are cut
in square POmpadour shape and the skirts
finished with Spanish fiounce. A new
effect, however, is given to these little
dresses by laying boNpleats down the
front and back, instead of merely gather
ing the fullness into the yoke. There are
three broad box-pleatS in front and three
behind, reaching only to the waist-line or
below the hips, or else within finger
length of the little Spanish fiounce This
makes the dress less bulky than the full
slips gathered to the yokes, giving the
slender appearance which now seems to
be as fashionable orthese little folks as
| for their mammas. White nansook slips
made in this way have three broad rows
of open-worked insertion down the yoke
with clusters of tiny tucks between, and a
frill of edging as a border. The Spanish
f1Ounce, abb ut two fingers deep and scant-
| lily gathered, is tucked and edged with
embroidery. The peculiarity of the Span
ish founce is that it is not set upon the
skirt, but the skirt is cut off and the
| flOunce sewed to the edge. Palmer nam
sOoE dresses have no yokes, but the whole
| waist is tucked from the neck down, and
the skirt is in one piece with the waist.
| Box pleatS with fine tucks between make
pretty waists.
Simpler dresses than those Just de-
scribed, and more stylish because more
clinging, are made with box-pleats from
the neck down to within two or three
inches of the edge of the skirt, and fin
| ished with Spanish tlounce. They have
no yoke, and the only seams are those
under each arm. The material is first
sewed permanently in three boX-pleats,
each nearly two inches wide, with space
between, and is then cut out by long
sacque pattern. The garment fastens be-
hind under the middle box pleat. The
| pleats and f1Ounce are most effective when
the pleats are not sewed all the way to
the top of the founce, and this is done
in snowy little white dresses of fine mus
lin; but for cambrics, ginghams, apd
| linen lawns that are to be often laundried,
mothers stitch the box pleats all the way
down to tie flOunce; bias band of the
cambria is then used as heading for the
tiounce. These lengthwise box pleatS
must not be stitched on the edge, but are
merely sewed in the middle once, opened,
and pressed fatty. Dresses made in this
way are worn with or without sashes, ac-
cording to fancy. The skirts reach near
| ly to the top of the buttoned shoe, but
must be short enough to show something
of the colored stocking. The sash and
stockings, also the hat trimming, match
in colors, and may be either plain solid
color or else have white bars on cardinal
red, brown, navy blue, or else very pale
blue The colored stockings are clocked
in bars on the instep, or in lines up the
sides, halfway to the knee, and are of
solid color above. Pale blue and rose
colored stockings are very popular. Ecru
Balbriggans clOcked with colors are the
! only white stockings now worn, as col
Ored hosiery is used with white dresses.
Little girls do not wear pique dresses
as much as formerly, the fine soft wool
ems and fannels with white lace trim
mings being used instead. Piques
are still made, however, with princesse
fronts apd backs as far down as the hips,
where kilt pleating is set in the back, and
a sash is used to cover the join; the sash
may be of pleated pique or Of ribbon.
Repped piques are preferred to all others,
and the trimmings are embroideries and
SMYRNA lace. @
Fine twilled woois and basket-woven
stuffs in colors are now imported for chill
dren's dresses in light qualities that are
| not warmer that piQue, and do not soil so
easily. These are made up in the prin-
ce8se styles and the Breton dresses, with
all the weight suspended from the shoul-
| ders, and in one piece, so that the skirt
cannot be always separating from the
body, nor is the little figure confined by
the belt Newer still than these is the
fancy Just imported from Paris of making
these dainty woolens up in the simple
box -pleated sacques described above for
cambria and gingham dresses, and finish
ing them with the inevitable Spanish
fiounce. The upper part, which comes
in nearer contact with the body. is lined
throughout with soft white muslin. The
neck, sleeves and fiounce are trimmed
with Smyrna insertion and lace, either all
white or partly cOlOred; the insertion, as
well as the lace, is laid plainly on the
colored goods without gathers, and is
more effective thus than when edging 1t
merely, orzwhen the material is cut away
| beneath the insel ton. Cream-color, rose.
tilleul, pale blue, and navy blue wool
dresses are made in this way. Garments
similarly made, but slightly shorter, are
used for wraps or walking coats, with
white dresses showing beneath. There
are also shorter Breton sacques of these
woolen goods made gay with braids and
Estrings of buttons. These have square
collars and square pockets.
/ With the first short clothes are worn
close cottage caps of plain white muslin,
made over white or coloIed silk Innings,
and trimmed with insertions and edgings
of Valenciennes lace, or else the partly
colored torchon lace. More muslin and
less lace is used in those caps than was
formerly done Girls of two years and
upward wear sailor hats of colored striped
straw, with the brim faced with colored
satin slightly puffed on, and band and
streamers to match. Cardinal red sailor
hats are very much worn. 1t is the fancy
to set these hats On the back Of the head,
as old sailors wear them. Tie front hair
is " bang eed' in short fringe on the fore
head, and the back hangs loose and flow
ing. Other most picturesque hats for
small girls have the brims turned up in
front and rolled against the high, round
crown, while the back of the brim is
turned down. These have striped straw
crowns, while the brim is a plain color.
There are also charming little japanese
hats of satin straw, made as fiat as din
ner- plate, and trimmed with a bouquet of
flowers set far to the back OF the center.
The sashes worn all around the figure
must be very wide, and show nearly their
whole width in front. They are passed
loosely around halfway down the skirt,
and hang in long looped bow behind.
Shoes without heels are worn by all small
children.-H0Tper's Bdznr.
The DOuble-NOte SWindle.