Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-29
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Practical and Useful Suggestions for &c
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Practical and Useful Suggestions for Eco
| nomic Housewives.
What is called the 'laveuse" or milk
maid skirt, is good and stylish design
for both light wooden and wash fabrics
In this the plain overskirt is turned
back with deep revers on the right side,
| the narrowest portion of the revers
reaching to the belt, and it is drapeo
very high on the left side. A yoked,
belted bodice suits with this kind Of
skirt. If your goods are part striped
and part plain, use the plain for under
and overskirt, sleeves and full part oil
bodice, and the stripe for revers, yoke,
belt and cuffs. II your goods is plaid
and plain, use the pla d for skirts, etc,
and the plain for yoke, revers, etc.
A zouave jacket over full vest also
suits for bodice to the milk-maid skirt.
or the bodice may be made full surplice
with the V-shaped front trimmed in
some way similar to vest. For quite
young girls and misses, yoke bodices
are very much the style. Many young
ladies are embroidering the yokes. belts,
cuffs, ETC., of chambray, organdie,
batiste, and even zephyr gin CHAINS.
Multi-colored fast-dye cottons are used,
and the stitches are executed in what is
called Russian embroidery that is usual
ly done in bright silks. This kind of
embroidery does not take long, and is
very effective.
Foot-plaitings on skirts have almost
disappeared. This does not mean that
they are not used, but that they are put
almost out of sight. If the lower part
OF the skirt has a trimming fold, the
foot-plaiting is made very narrow and
set underneath it, so that only about
half of it is in sight. The reason for
not dispensing with it entirely is be-
cause it saves skirt from much wear
and tear. 1t takes up the dust and mud
before it reaches the skirt proper, and
can be renewed when soiled more read
lily than the bottom of plain skirt can
be renovated. But as little trimming is
now put on street suits, the foot plating
must be placed so as to be as little con-
spicuous as possible.
There are, as usual, summer fashions
for children as well as grown people,
but, after all, the most important thing
to be noticed in making clothes for chill
dren is to see that they fit comfortably.
Grown people, who are supposed to have
more ambition and perhaps pardonable
conceit in regard to the appearance they
make in their costumes. will often under
90 much inconvenience and submit al
most to pain in order to have their
clothes seem to fit well and look
stylish; but with children it is
different. Grown people make them
selves miserable at their own
option in doing this, and if they are
foolish enough to do SO, have them
selves only to blame; but the mother
who forces a little child to wear gar
ment that hurts or even Inconvenience
her free motion and play of limbs, does
not deserve the name she bears. Good
sense rather than fashion should govern
the designing of children's clothes. Let
them be quite loose enough to insure
the free movement of every part of the
body. This can be done compatibly
with all neatness and grace of design.
Dresses need not hang in bags on a
child's form and make it look as though
her garment had descended to her from
The present style of dress for little chill
dren is the long SKIRT reaching to the
ankle, the short waist, sash-bound, and
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the head, or the scoop bonnet. tied I'M
der the chin with ribbon strings in a
little prim bow. These quaint, big hats
and bonnets make children S faces all
the prettier and more cunning by the
contrast of the small, infantine features
and baby expression, with the old
womanly-looking bonnets; and, as some
one has somewhat POLITICALLY said, the
present style of children's hats and
bonnets ''tie in many a mothers
heart''
AS to the long skirts, it is but fair to
acknowledge that they are great draw
back to the free motion of a little child
in its play and gambols, and in our es-
timation should be used only with the
"dress-up' suits that children wear
when not expected to race and romp at
large. For everyday wear there can
be nothing more suitable than the
'Mother-Hubbard' style, and it is used
by as many ultra-fashionable mothers
as by those who are less so, for the rea-
sons given. Guimps and yokes of col
ored goods for white dresses, and of
white for colored ones, are seen on chill
dren's dresses for nearly all ages-from
the very youngest to young ladies. This
is good fashion, as they can be made
separately from the full body as we
have before described, and different
ones used at different times, making
pretty changes with the same dress
Cor. Ohio Farmer.