The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-14
Summer Fashions for Children.

Philadelphia Press.
Exceeding quaintness and picturesqueness
are the prevailing characteristics of the dress
of the children of the present day; and the
little folks, with their guimpe dresses and
large shirred bonnets, look for all the world
as though they had just stepped from between
the leaves of Kate Greenway picture book.
The guimpe may be either separate, sort of
shirt with yoke and full sleeves, over which
is worn a full apron, low-necked, and with
shoulder straps, plain or puffed in lieu of
sleeves; or the dress may be all in one, with
yoke of tucked cambria set into full shirred
skirt, and full straight sleeves with white
cambria gathered into a tucked cuff at the
wrist. Blue, pink, Turkey red and crushed
strawberry are the favorte colors for these
dresses but all shades and all colors are
worn, and many of them are made all in
white with Jokes of embroidery, the French
yoke dress, in fact, is nothing less than the
guimpe all in one color.
Very popular, also, is the old-fashioned
dress with baby waist gathered to a yoke,
and again to belt, with straight round skirt.
Some mothers like this very long WASTED,
while others run to the other extreme, and
put the belt almost under the arms, after the
fashion of the First Empire. This model is
equally pretty in sheer white lawn, with lace
embroidery for trimming, or in bingham
self-trimmed.
A pretty costume for miss oftwelve years
is of ecru pongee with tapered plastron, and
broad sash of seal brown silk. The dress is
cut square at the neck over yoke of Irish
point embroidery, and the skirt has straight
drape cut in tabs and bound with brown silk
over knife pleatings of pongee alternating
with silk.
Jersey suits, consisting of a plated skirt of
cashmere or flannel In gay plaid, worn with
a Jersey in some color to harmonic, are very
popular for seaside wear, and charming even
ing costumes are made by taking jersey in
some bright color or delicate evening shade,
trimming it with collar, cuffs and border OF
open embroidery turning up on the jersey.
and wearing it over white skirt covered
with founces of embroidery to match. PGn-
cesse slips and plated English sacques are
the favorite shapes for the useful ginghams
which most mothers prefer for morning wear
in the country and at the seaside while the
sailor suit of flannel continues indispensable
to every girls wardrobs for damp, cool days.
Fashionable small girls wear their dresses
quite short, coming but little below the knee.
The stockings are very long and the short
drawers do not show. AS the girl grows
Older the dress is gradually heightened, and
miss in her teens wears it to the top OF her
high shoes, or perhaps little shorter, if she
has older sisters. Pique dresses are made In
one piece either sacque or princesse, for
girls under eleven, over ten they wear the
piece suit, jacket and skirt, the jacket
almost as long as a polonaise. Stockings
must match the dress or the ribbons worn
with it in color; black stockings are, how
ever stylish with every color. Boys wear
only dark colored or gray hose, and for them,
also, black is the acme of style. Many
ribbons are worn-sashes bows, shoulder
knots and full bows on the hair, which is
shinged or stralghtly banged in 'front.' and
crimped and lett flowing beii.d. Very few
mothers let their children near low shoes,
since physicians condemn them as fruitful
source of weak ankles.
Wide round hats, shirred hats of bingham,
and Kate Greenway bonnets are alike popu-