Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-07
SMALL CHILDREN.
The Kind of Clothes Which Are Worn
the Children of Fashionable Mothers.


the Children of Fashionable Mothers.
Yoke slips remain in favor for the
first short clothes worn by infants.
The square yoke is preferred alike for
white muslin. or colored bingham. and
Chambery dresses. The modified
Mother Hubbard dresses have the yoke
of white tucked muslin, with perhaps
some insertion or brier stitching done
in rows with embroidery cotton; the
dress of pale pink or blue bingham is
attached to this yoke in French gathers,
and bow of bingham strings is tied
above the shoulders, or else a shoulder
strap is cut in one with the bingham
dress. The sleeves are of white muslin
gathered to tucked wristband, and
edged with a scalloped frill; the neck
has a similar friIl.
The white yoke and white sleeves
initiating a guimpe, or else the sepa-
rate guimpe waists, are on the dresses
larger girls put on when leaving off
slips. The simplest of these have full
waists gathered to belt all around, or
else with only belt in front, while the
back is in one piece with the skirt, and
is shirred on drawing-strings, over
which sash Of the bingham or Cham
berry is tied The full round gathered
skirt OF two straight breadths simply
| hemmed, or with some tucks just above
the hem, completes the dresses with
belted waists.
The Gretchen or peasant dress is
made as it was last year, with a low
| necked round waist to wear over a
! guimpe. This waist has sometimes a
vest of embroidery or OF tucked mus
| lin. or of putfs of muslin set down the
| front and held there by three or four
straps of the Bingham or Chambery of
the dress wrought with white cotton in
brier stitching; the backs may each
have short side form, or may be sin
gle pieces buttoned by small pearl but
tons. A gathered frill OF embroidery
forms the sleeves, and is around the
! low neck, which is now cut only half
low and round rather than square; the
| frjll on the neck should be sewed on
with a binding or facing so that the
right side will droop down on the bod
ice. A sash of the goods two fingers
wide is seWed in the under-arm seam
and tied behind in a large bow with
longer ends. The gathered skirt has
| two straight widths tucked or merely
hemmed. The newest Gretchen dresses
are made more fanciful by cutting the
waist with a slight point in 'front.' and
adding an over-skirt which is merely a
straight rutfie half the length of the
lower skirt gathered in one with the
lower skirt to the waist. To make
| these the embroidered Chamberys are
used for the waist and over-skirt
,>1oin oI-i,.& tbo
white dresses made in this way are
all over embroidery, wide scalloped
| flounce with open patterns beng used
| for the lower skirt and narrower
| tlounce for the upper skirt, while the
waist is made of the wide fiounce, with
the scalloped edge passing down the
| front each side of the pointed vest. A
| long-lOOped bow of satin ribbon may
catch up the over-skirt on the left side,
and there is a smaller square bow
| placed on the right shoulder. The
scalloped frill around the neck is two
inches deep. The only white dresses
| that rival these are of French nansook
ornamented with many tuckS in the
skirt and vest, with rows of brier
stitching between. The guimpe UNDER
waist is tucked only at the top in yoke
shape as far as is visible above the low
waist of the dress.
All skirts for the smallest girls are
made quite long, reaching to the
ankles: those for girls of four or six
years are shorter, yet these must fall
far below the knees.
The summer novelties are etamine,
canvas and scrim dresses ornamented
by drawn-work of narrow satin ribbon
passed through the meshes of the can
vas in group above the hem, and
forming the entire vest of a Gretchen
waist. Foulard silks of cream, rose or
blue ground with flower clusters in
them are made up in low-necked baby
| waists with short pulled sleeves, a belt,
and full skirt, to be worn over a mus
lin guimpe, and ornamented on the
right shoulder and the left side of the
skirt with a bow of ribbons COM
| bining the colors in the foulard. Dark
blue, pale blue and Turkey red cottons
embroidered nearly all over with white
| are used for little girls peasant dresses.
The Scotch gingham may be of a solid
color, or checked, or in larger blocks
with embroidered squares in them, and
there'is also fancy for using the wide
stripes and large plaids for these little
| women, though they are rather more
appropriate for their brothers dresses.
Wash dresses for boys of two years
| are of white Victoria lawn. or of plain,
plaid or striped Bingham, laid in ten
or twelve pleats down the front and
back; these pleats are tucked to the
waist, but merely pressed below. A belt
is across the back, and this garment
may be buttoned behind, or else yoke
| may be set across the top of such
dress, and it is then buttoned down the
front. Such dresses are also worn by
girls, but are then furnished with sash
of the muslin across the back. With
these pretty pleated dresses of white
muslin small boys wear a smart cravat
of gay checked silk passed under the
round collar and tied in large bow.
For boys of five years are pique kilt
skirts worn under long English sacque
of embroidered pique that opens over
Breton vest attached to the waist of the
kilt skirt.
Jersey waists of solid color are worn
with gay striped skirt and sash by
both girls and boys from four to eight
years of age. White flannel suits have
q blouse and kilt skirt ornamented with
blue or red brier stitching, or else with
gay-colored wool braid.-Harper's Ba.
gar.