Huntsville gazette., 1886-05-08
BOYS. SUITS.
Pretty Summer, Clothes for BOYS from
Three to Eight Years Old.

Pretty Summer Clothes for BOYS from
Three to Eight Years Old.
Small boys wear white muslin yoke
slips, precisely like those worn by little
girls, until they are two years old, and
it is the custom with fashionable moth
ers to keep them in these little frocks
until they are two and half and in
many cases three years of age, How
ever, this matter of changing the dress
to more distinctively boyish style
depends good deal on the growth of
the child, as tall boy of two years
should be dressed like boy; hence at
the furnishing houses there are one
piece dresses and sailor suits made in
the same designs for boys Of two years
as for those of four and even six wears
of age. For these dresses are blue or
white flannels, pique, shepherd check.
white linen and ginghams in small
checks, stripes or in solid dark blue or
brown. The little dress all in one
piece buttons down the front, and has
a single box plait down each side Of
the front. The back has one box plait
down the middle to belt which is set
in the under-arm seams, and buttoned
low in the middle of the back; the skirt
in the back is then finished out with
kilt plaits. This may be varied slight
ly by tapping the fronts to make them
double-breasted, and using two rows
of buttons, either of colored pearl or
metal on hannels, and of white pearl
on wash goods. Another dress all in
one piece has the waist very long, and
a skirt all around laid in box plaits.
The waist has two box plaits down the
front and back. and when made of
flannel row of braid half an inch wide
may be down the middle of each plat
A belt. also braided. extends all
around, and hides the joining of the
waist to the skirt. Still another FASH
ion, especially pretty for pique dresses,
has square yoke and either three or
five box plaits the entire length of the
garment both in front and back; these
plaits are sewed permanently as low
as the belt, but are only pressed in
the skirt. The separate belt is two
inches wide. edged with Hamburg edg-
ing, and held on BY straps on the side
seams. Sailor collar and deep cuffs
with embroidered edging. The last
dress buttons in front, but other pique
dresses are made to button behind, with
tucks down front and back, and fulness
added in wide plaits on the sides below
the waist line. Two rows of insertion
may be let in between tucks down the
front. Sailor suits of flannel or pique
tho l. Il
too well known to need description.
Boys from four to six or even eight
years of age wear two-piece suits with
a kilt sewed to silesia waist that but
tons in front, and over this is long
jacket coming below the hips. This
jacket, when made of blue, gray, or
white flannel, or pique, or shepherds
check, may be a Norfolk jacket with
two box plaits down the single
breasted front, two box plaits behind,
and a belt worn below. Metal. but !
tons and belt clasp or else tinted
ivory or pearl bottoms with eyes are used
of the color of the material. Corduroy
suits are made in this way in white,
brown and gray shades, and the shep-
herds checks are in black and white,
brown with white or dark blue with
white. There are also pretty Scotch
Cheviots in tan and other brown shades |
in small irregular plaids for these suits.
More dressy fine cloth and pique suits
with a kilt skirt have the jacket slashed |
behind and cut away square at the
waist line to simulate vest, while still |
others have revers turned back from |
this simulated vest. There are wide
pocket flaps on each side, but no belt.
Wide linen collars are worn with these |
suits, hence there is no collar to the |
jacket. Sailor blouse-waists are also |
worn with kilt skirts by boys not yet in
short trousers. The new spring over
coat for such boys has shoulder cape
and short wasted effect. Polo caps
and straw sailor hats are chosen with |
reference to the Ha1per's Bazar.