The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-12-24
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Girls Dresses.

FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Girls Dresses.
The dark solid colors enlivened by gay
Oriental trimmings are used for chii-
dren's and misseI dresses in precisely
the same way described for ladies.
Cashmere, camel's-hair and other
wooden fabrics are chosen for the skirts
of dresses, while gay broche goods in
palm-lea designs make the basque or
other over-dress, and border the plain
skirts. Gendarme blue, garnet and
deep green are the favorite colors for the
plain fabrics. while great deal of old
gold and red appear in the material
combined with it. For the combination
dresses worn by girls from twelve to
sixteen years two pieces are most used,
viz, a short panier polonaise with a
plain skirt, or else a double breasted
coat with plated kilt skirt. The
polonaise may fasten behind or in front,
according to taste, and is very prettily
trimmed with a point in front beginning
at the neck and ending at the waist line.
This point is made Of shirred satin run
crosswise in small tucks, or else of
plated plush in lengthwise plaitings; a
reverse Of the satin or plush trims each
side, and long -looped bow of satin rib
bon is placed at the point. The fullness
concealed under the bow spreads out to
drape the hips, and is fastened behind
by two Marguerite bows. The skirt to
wear with this polonaise may be of the
same material shirred down the middle
of the front, and bordered with shell
flounce, or else it may be of corduroy,
velveteen, silk or velvet, made perfectly
plain, or else edg ged with narrow Dox-
plating that peeps out from beneath the
skirt braid. For making such suits
there are stylish shades Of blue or gar.
net camel's-hair sold at 81 to Sl.25 a
ward, double width, and these can be
worn over plain skirts of gray corduroy
that comes in broad line stripes, at
eighty cents yard. or else in the cordu-
roy velvets that have fine stripes, and
cost Sl.25 a yard. These are single
width goods, and arc really striped vel
veteens; the colors are gendarme blue
garnet, brown and green. The gay ORR
entail cashmeres used for over-dresses or
for trimmings cost from $l.50 to SIS o
yard, according to their width and
quality.
Tie only costumes made entirely of
one fabric for misses are those of cloth
or of corduroy, and these usually con-
sist of three pieces-a coat basque, or
else a plated waist belted in, and a
round apron over-skirt draped very high
on each side above plain skirt simply
stitched, or else kilt skirt. The coat
basque is double or single breasted, and
of medium length, stitched on the edges,
and trimmed with gilt or cut steel but
tons. Ifa plated waist is preferred On
account of giving roundness to a slen-
der undeveloped figure, it is made with
three box plaits stitched down the front
to the waist line, and the same number
of plaits are in the back; the garment
extends straight around below the hips,
and is hcmmed there, but the plaits are
lcfb loose, being merely pressed instead
of being stitched down. Gendarme blue,
bottle green, or navy blue cloths are
preferred for these costumes; next in
favor is the English homespun cloth in
checks or ecru and brown, or else two
shades of olive; this is loosely woven,
and not heavy. There are also cloth
finished hannels in nice blue shades that
are quite heavy enough for dresses to
change with the English homespun snius,
and these two dresses form an excellent
winter outfit for the. school-room.
Among the ready-made suits at the fur
nishing stores brown or blue fiannels are
made up and fancifully trimmed with
old gold braid. These have kilt skirt,
with crinoline lining in the tox plaits,
while around the hips is drapery like
plated SCARF The coat is tight in the
back, but loose in front. and has a deep
collar. Sometimes the hip draperysis
cut in two points in front, and there are
two hanging ends. These are made for
misses Of sixteen years, and also for
little girls four years OF age. The prices
range from 80 to $3.50, according to
size.
For smaller girls, for very small girls,
from four to eight years OF age, dresses
are preferred in single piece cut in the
English styles illustrated in tho Rautr.
The fronts are usually made to repre-
sent Jackets and vests by arranging the
trimmings to do so, while the b lck has
some plating set in below the waist
line These may be made of claret,
brown, blue or drab flannel and trimmed
with gay India figured goods or with
some striped satin, or else they are en-
tirely of the fancy plaid hannels once
used solely for lining gentlemen's over
coats, but now liked for these little
dresses on account of their quaint color
ing, such rs drab with red, green with
red and navy blue with white or with
red. Those dressy princesse dresses
have three knifc-plaitings across the
back instead of the single kilt or box
plating, and these have a bouffant effect
added by little sash tied below the
hips. A dark green cashmere princesse
dress with three knife-plaitings and 4
CAV India scarf with square collar OF
the India goods, is very pretty; seal
brown cashmere is made in the same
way, and piped with pale blue, cream
color or bright red. Corduroy in the
Arab shades makes beautiful little prin-
cesse dresses that serve also for walking
coats. The gAyest trimming for these
is velvet in bright Scotch tartan plaids
used as n vest and pipings. with occa-
sional glimpses of red satin facingss.
Mothers who prefer quiet colors use seal
brown plush or velvet for the square
collar, cuffs, pockets and pipings of cor
duroy princesse dresses.
THERE'S no change in the white dresses
worn by little girls under four years of
age. Mothers who do not like to use
white dresses all the winter get solid
colored flannels in the new peacock blue
and dark claret colors, and ma Ike pretty
little box-plaited blouses precisely like
the white muslin slips 80 often described.
They have merely three box-plaits in
front and behind nearly the whole length
of the garment, and wide belt of the
annel is strapped on low on the hips.
These are preferred to plaids or checks
for the tiny girls! Warm knitted leg
ginps for children to wear in the carriage
are sold for seventy-fve cents. The
knitted drawers that were formerly
shown only in white wool are now sold
in pale blue, navy blue or garnet, and
cost from Sl.35 to Sl.50.
Solid-colored stockings are preferred
for misses ard children. The peacock
blue and garnet stockings come IN shades
to match coiored dresses, and are also
worn with white dresses. Scotch plaid
and striped stockings are the second
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