Morning journal and courier., 1882-10-04
Fall Fashions For Children.
What the Little Ones arc to wear Thi
 Season.

What the Little Ones arc to Wear This
 Season.
 In no country are children better dressed than in America. The constant travel be- tween this country and Europe familiarizes parents with the styles and fashions of other lands, and by amalgamating and adapting them very satisfactory results are attained. Less formal than the French and more artis- tic than the English, the American style of dress for little children combines the advan- tages and escapes the disadvantages of both. The uncertainty of the climate, too, has distinct influence upon children's dress, and every year more attention is directed to con- alterations of health in connection with it. The fragile limbs are better protected we no longer see the exposure of delicate necks. and tender arms, and even for dress occa- sions high suits made, which protect as well as adorn the tiny wearers. All this is as it should be, and while now and again some unwise mother will be found sacrificing her child's health to some passing folly, rule the little ones warmly and sensibly dressed.
 There are, of course, various fashions in chiidrens clothes which pass with little mo- tice, and reformations are taking place all the time, but one fact cannot escape our atten- tion, and that is the increased freedom of limb that is allowed by modern fashion. The Mother Hubbard" style, of which %e have seen the last for 8 while, was 8 step in the right direction in this regard, and it has been more popularly adopted than anything that has arisen for years. Now that 1t Is already fashion of the past, find the influences that introduced it as potent as ever. And the styles for little ones this fall will be as quaint and pretty as those which they re- place For elder girls, combination dresses are to be the mode. Very handsome mate rials, domestic and foreign, are on hand for the purpose. The bright-hued colors of the past season are no longer seen no cardinal reds or brilliant blues to serve founda- tion for decorative effects. On the contrary, the tones for children are the absolutely neu- tral. Olive greens, dark, invisible blues, deep browns and the darkest shades of dull reds are the prevailing colors. Combinations and not contrasts are to be the fashion Such color as is worn will be in the form of trimming for the quaint hats and bonnets which bid fair to be most bewitchingly be- coming to the little wearers. The favorite materials will be rhadames cloth, which is not unlike satin de Lyon in textu1e and ap- pearance; Ottoman cloth, a woolen material with raised silken stripe, and cashmeres velvets and plushes. Shaded plush will be very much worn for the basque waists, which will be in style for girls of 10 and 12, the skirts to accompany them being usually of rhadames or Ottoman cloth. Or if shaded plush forms the skirt, and much of it will be used for this purpose, and is so wrought as to have the appearance of tucks, the basque to accompany it will be of satin de Lyon, velvet or cashmere The trimming for plush skirt will be placed entirely round the bottom, and will generally be of the lighter material used in combination, and take the form of narrow plaitings. very pretty Parisian costume for little girl of 9 or 10 is a combination of ribbed plush and satin de Lyon. The skirt is of the latter material, and has two narrow killings of the same round the bottom, with quilted pufing as a heading The front part of the skirt is trimmed with shirred outings of the satin de Lyon, and the back is perfectly plain, the drapery which depends from the basque forming the necessary trimming. The basque of ribbed plush has vest of satin dc Lyon, and two long tabs of plush fall from either side, forming framework, as it were, for the satin outings up the front of the skirt The sleeves are of plush, with inserted pufdng of satin de Lyon at the elbow, and are deeply shirred at the top and at the waist. Shirrings and outings will be uni versal, forming, in fact, all the trimmings which will be fashionable. For those to whom economy is an object the combination style of dress offers decided advantages, ob viating all extra expense for trimming, and, moreover, making it possible to consider the possibility of turning and twisting the mate- rials for another season, a desirable possi bility which is hardly considered by those who set the fashions.
 For smaller children, the princess dress will again be in favor, not, however. with the simplicity which marked it's earlier introduc- tion. On the contrary, the little frocks will be very much trimmed. PuffinRs and shir- rings down the front and round the skirt will be usual, and the favorite style for the back is to be @ combination of large and small pleatings shirred at the waist. Even for very small children sombre colors will be preferred; with the exception of cream shades, which entirely replace the old-fash- toned white. Cream colored cashmere, trim med with lace, will be fsvorite combination. Lace trimmings will be universal this fall, and allow scope for any measure of expense. With the exception of edgings imisating more costly laces, no other trimmings will be found upon the fashionable dresses either for large or small children.
 But it is to the bonnets and hats, which are to complete the costume, that we must look for novelty this year. The prevailing style for very small children is to be the Queen Anne poke or, as it used to be fami- liarly called the scuttle bonnet. Anything quainter for little girls cannot be imagined. The favorite materials will be soft plush, beaver and felt. The scuttle crown will be of one material and the front of another, while the color will depend largely upon the lining of the front. This lining will general ly be of shirred satin or ottoman ribbon, and will be shirred upon reeds so that the inside shirring will frame the face and the front, but stand out around it. The outside trim
 
 bows. The tips of the plumes will fall over the front and rest upon the hair. Larger girls will wear hats of felt, plush, or velvet, with wide brims, depending downward upon the right and turned up on the left trimmed with plumes and rich silk cords and tassels. The colors for hats will be uniformly dark, grays, greens or browns. No bright felt or felt spotted with colors will be worn. All the color will be in tho trimming, which, as we have said, will be mainly limited to the lining of brim, plumes and cord.
 Fashions for boys do not vary those for girls do, but this season new style of Jer- sey suit will be introduced which is woven throughout, and fits to the figure like skin Rolled caps accompany the suit. The inten- tion of this suit is to afford entire freedom of limb, and the youngsters dressed in them will appear like small athletes They will at least be very becoming to the figure. There is nothing of any novelty to report in fall wraps, either for boys or girls. Light cloth coats for the former are much as usual, and the mantle, with cape with shirred collar, will be worn by girls All the walking | sacques and cloaks we have seen rather for winter than fall and it would be little premature to discuss them but as prophetic of the coming season, we may assert that | furs and heavy plush trimmings will be uni versally worn, with mixed cloths of dark | combinations of color In Paris @ favorite dress for young girls in the evening is one | of Grecian form, with a plain skirt embroid- cred round the edge in Grecian design, and a full waist, with what is known the pep lum tunic that is to say, a tunic longer at | the sides than at the front and back. belt 1 is wora round the waist, and bracelet to match on the arm above the elbow. The effect of this style is heightened by the fash ion adopted with it, of wearing three mar row bands of ribbon across the head, which are tied under the hair at the back in long loops with ends. The material of these dresses is either fine muslin surah silk, of cream color, the bordered design being en- | broidered in colors.