The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-15
SMALL CHILDREN.
The Kind of Clothes Which Are Worn b
the Children of Fashionable Mothers.

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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 shoulder
strap is cut in one with the bingham
dress. The sleeves are of white muslin
gathered to a tucked wristband, and
edged with scalloped frill; the neck
has similar frill.
The white yoke and white sleeves
initiating 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
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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 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
frll on the neck should be sewed on
with 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 4
straight ruffle 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-sk.rt
on plain lower skirt. The
white dresses made in this wav are
all over embroidery, wide scalloped
tlounce with open patterns beng used
for the lower skirt and narrower
fiounce for the upper skirt, while the
waist is made of the wide flounce, 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-sk:rt on the left side,
and there is smaller square bow
placed on the right shoulder. The
scalloped frill around'th neck is two
| inches deep. The only white dresses
that rival these are of French nainsook
ornamelted with many tucks in the
skirt and vest, with rows of brier
stitching between. The gu mpe under
waist is tucked only at the top in yoke
shape as far rs 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 ornameuted
by drawn-work of narrow satin ribbon
passed through the meshes of the can
vas in a group above the hem, and
forming the entire vest OF a Gretchen
st Foulard silks of cream, rose or
blue ground with flower clusters in
them are male up in low-necked baby
waists with short pulled sleeves, belt,
ard full skirt, to be worn over a mus
lin guimpe, and ornamented ON the
right shoulder and the lett side of the
skirt with bow of ribbons conn.,
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 solid
color, or checked. or in larger blocks
with embroidered squares in them, and
there is also fancy for using the vide
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 gingham. 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
NAV be set across the top of such IA
dress, and it is then buttoned down the
front. Such dresses are also worn by
girls, but are then furnished with a 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 low.
For boys of five years are plque kilt
skirts worn under a long English sacquc
of embroidered pique that opens over a
] Breton vest attached to thewaist of the
kilt skirt.
Jersey waists of solid color are worn
with gay striped skirt and sash by
both girls and boys from four 20 eight
years of age. White flannel suits have
q blouse and kilt skirt ornamented with
blue or red brier stitching, or else with
gay-colosed wool braid.-Rarper's b.
gar.