The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-05-12
Short Clothes.


dresses shortened to escape the floor,
and not to be In the child's way when il
first attempts to walk Sashes are little
used with these dresses, as they appear
to cut the short figure in two, and the
flowing effect is simpler and every way
prettier The first short wrap is usually
white or pale gray ia sacque shape, with
cape, and should be deep enough to
cover the little white dresses. The
second set of short dresses, put on at the
age of two years, or at eighteen months,
if the child is large, has more variety OF
shape, and a good deal of color is then
introduced both in the dresses and
wraps The guimpe dresses, flowing
Mother Hubbard dresses, and the half.
loose English princesse dresses are worn
by girls Of two years. White dresses OF
muslin with guimpes are for the incest
occasions, while those of colored cash
mere, flannel, Chambery, lawn, Scotch
ginghams, in pale blue and pink, and
the darker Turkey red cOttOns and
sprigged satteens, are also worn with
white muslin guimpes, or else with
simulated guimpe of the material of the
dress. This guimpe may be separate
high-necked waist gathered to belt,
and with long, slightly full sleeves made
worn with any low-necked, short
sleeved dress, or else 1t may be square
yoke and long sleeves Of the muslin, to
which the little full dress, white OF
colored, is permanently attached. The
effect OF square low neck with short
pulled sleeves passing high over the
shoulders is most liked for these dresses,
and the little yoke slips SO long worn
may easily be given this appearance by
adding puff above the arm-holes, and
placing edging to stand erect along the
edges Of the yoke in front and back and
above the shoulder puffs. Such a
guimpe OF white muslin may have a
dress of pale blue, buff, pink, or straw
berry cashmere, or of embroidered mus
lin, white nainsook, cambria, Cham
berry, ecru batiste, Scotch ginham, linen
lawn, or of light or dark blue flannel.
The dress may have rows of stirring
massed in the centre of the back and
front, and hang loose thence, or be
shirred again all round below the hips,
and sometimes the flounce of embroid-
cry is attached to the waist in this
cfuStcT VI Shifting. AuSlC ule hioo
guimpe dresses with tucks or box plaits
and insertion down the close front,
with full backs that are shaped into the
figure by wide sash like strings of the
material sewed into the side seams just
at the waist line or else far below the
hips, and tied in large bow behind.
Another plan with mothers Is that OF
letting the child wear its white muslin
yoke slips to serve as a guimpe and
petticoat, and putting on over this a
low-necked dress of cashmere or mus.
lin. which may have a belt, and look
like peasant dress, or else it may be
shirred below the hips. That this makes
the child look bunchy does not matter,
as all dressing for very small children
is now very full and nothing so quickly
appearance of scantiness either in
length or breadth. For travelling and
summer dresses in the country gray
blue, garnet and brown flannel dresses
are made with simulated grimpes of tho
same, or of white cashmere, or of
flannel of contrasting color, and rows
of braid to match the guimpe trim the
skirt, sometimes heading tucks that arc
SO useful for frightening the skirt as
the child grows or the material shrinks.
Mother Hubbard dresses of full straight
breadths gathered to q plain or shirred
yoke are liked for everyday dresses OF
wash goods and for the electric and
navy blue and strawberry red dresses OF
cashmere or of flannel that children now
wear with French aprons of sheer white
Victoria lawn, or cross-barred muslin,
or French nainsook. These aprons are
half-high and square on The shoulders,
or else round and low in the neck,
with the merest strap of cdging, a little
puff or cap for sleeves, and are long
enough to entirely cover the dark dress
which may have grown shabby during
the winter, and needs the touch of
freshness that the white apron gives.
and straight, but for those who are
quite plump there are aprons with fitted
fronts, striped and bordered with inser
ton, or else with box plates down their
whole length, separated by inch-wide
rows of insertion. White cotton sat
teen in plainreps, or striped like dimity,
or else with woven jacquard designs
of leaves, stars and daisies, is the
novelty that rivals pique for the half-loose
straight English dresses that are made
all in one piece, and are known as Prin-
cesse dresses. These dresses now have
lengthwise tucks, or else box plaits and
insertion, from the neck to the hips,
where there are basque-like pieces adj
ded to pass around the hips, and UNDER
meath this is sewed a plating like kilt
to finish out the garment the proper
length. Embroidery is the trimming
for these thick white dresses, and SINH
lar designs are made of nainsook with
lace, but for most of the dresses worn
by very small girls embroidery is the
trimming preferred. New caps for girls
of two years are of Irish point embroid-
cred muslin in close shapes, with ruff
ile OF embroidery on the edge. There
are also small pokes with cap trim
ming inside the brim, and others with
pulled soft crown and plated front.
Large brims with low crowns are seen
on the straw hats to be worn by the
smallest girls, and these are colored to
match the wrap worn with them, or else
they are white English straw trimmed
with colored pompons and ostrich tips,
and lined throughout the brim with dark
satin, or ii may be with velvet. Their
pretty spring and summer wrap is
half-long straight sacque of English red,
darker garnet, or electric blue cloth,
with white brandebourgs across the
fronts, white braid in rows on the edges,
and large white pearl buttons. This is
short enough to display the tlounces or