Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-07-13
CHlLDREN'S CLOTHES.
Midsummer Modes for the Little
Folks in Town and Country.
Guimpe Dresses and Jersey Suits-Pretty
Costumes Of Various Kinds, Both
Fashionable and Cheap-Hois-
cry and Rbbons-Fash-
ionabe Notes.

Exceeding quaintness and picturesque
ness 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 bon
nets, look for all the world as though
they had just stepped from between the
leaves of a Kate Greenaway picture
book, The guimpe may be either sep
arate, sort of shirt with q yoke and
full sleeves, over which is worn full
apron, low necked and with shoulder
straps, plain or pulled, lin lieu of sleeves;
or the dress may be all i'll one, with
yoke of tucked cambria set into a full
shirred skirt, and full straight sleeves Of
white cambria gathered into tucked
cuff at the wrist. Blue, pink. Turkey
red and crushed strawberry are the fav-
orIte colors for these dresses, but all
colors are worn, and many ofthem are
made all in white with yOkes of en-
broidery; the French yoke dress, In fact,
is nothing less than the guimpe all in
one color.
Very popular, also, is the old-fash-
toned dress with baby waist gathered
to yoke, and again to bolt, with
straight, round skirt. Some mothers
like this very long wasted, while 9TH
eTs run to the other extreme, and put
the belt almost under the arms, after
the fashion of the first Empire. The
model is equally pretty in sheer white
| lawn, with lace embroidery for trim
ming, or in Bingham selftrimmed.
The Russian Blouse.
There is quite fancy for the Rus.
sian blouse, especially for the wO0lens
| and for swahs, and many dresses are
| thus made shirred round the neck In
Mother Hubbard style, and falling low
on flOunced skirt. Quantities OF lace
and bows of ribbon are frequently
used on such costumes; others
have no trimming beyond plait-
| ings of the material and deep face
collar and cuffs. Loose fronts, a Ia Bern
| hardt, are very becoming to misses, and
are also much liked for small girls. y
very pretty imported model is of polka
| dotted fOulard, cream with garnet dots,
with full-putfed Bernhardt plastrou
down the front of garnetsurah and wide
| sash OF the same coming from uuueI II,
caught up at the back in full bow and
loose ends. \ side pleating of surah fin
ishes the skirt of the dress, and there IS
also a pleated Mother Hubbard collar
and cuffs of surah. Very stylish is an
evening dress of pink and surah-a full
pleated blouse, held above a pleated
Skirt by broad sash of the same. This
skirt, or pleating, is half covered by
Irish point embroidery laid flat on the
mat erial, and there is,a deep square col
! lar and cuffs to match. The sleeves
are in tight coat shape with full shout
| der pulls of the material. y pictur-
esqe dress ofpale blue sateen with yoke
| of the open fabric known variously as
Italian embroidery and Swiss lace.
Three rows OF shirring hold the dress
10 this yoke, and below 1t is laid in side
plaits under full draped sash OF the
same material. Below this sash etWo
rows of lace, matching the yoke, each
row falling over 81 de pleating OF SATIN
! Deep cuffs of lace to match.
and