St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-07-14
INFANTS CLOTHING,
Eiaporate and Simple Dresses and Petite
coats for the Baby,

ELABORATE and Simple Dresses and Petite
coats for the Baby.
lhe most important dresses IN an
infants layette are half dozen Very
simple little slips that may be used
either for night Or day dresses for the
! hrst month or six weeks of the child's
! lie. These are made of two breadths
OF soft cambria without dressing. each
yard long, sloped toward the top, and
the fullness there held in lengthwise
tucks instead of having separate woke.
Rows OF feather stitching are between
the clusters of tucks; the neck has an
edging Of ValenTennes turned down
around it in a fiat frill instead of stand
! ing, and the straight sleeves are turned
back in little cuffs, and trimmed with
Misunderstanding and edging More
elaborate dresses solely for day use are
of sheer French nainsook about fortv
inches long, with round woke made
up of clusters of fine tucks run bv
hand or hem-stitched, and separated bv
drawn-work, Misunderstanding or
slight vines of embroidery or else very
narrow Valenciennes insertion. Clus-
tiers OF tucks with trimming like that
on the yoke are around the skirt above
deep hem, and they also edge a sash
of the nainsook which may be tied in
great bow in front or back as the
mother chooses. The sleeves are
slightly full, with band at the wrist,
which is tucked, feather-stitched, and
edged with Nalenciennes of soft fine
quality. French robes imported for
christening robes have a deep pointed
yoke OF block-work and embroidery
reaching to the waist, where drawing
strings pass around the figure, or else
only at the back, holding "a full waist ,
gathered there, and also gathered next
the yoke. Embroidery and block-work
sometimes extend down the front of
such robes, but are more often set as
border above deep hem.
Cambria without dressing is used for
the long petticoat next the robe. and
this is also tucked, with feather stitching
Or embroidered insertion, or else it has
a scalloped edge. The flannel petit
coats have light and pretty patterns of
vines or seeded dots Or interlinked
rings done in white embroidery silk
above a plain hem, or else above an
edge OF scallops or of small squares
neatly button-holed. The seams have
brier-stitching (also called feather
stitching) to hold them fat. Barrow
coats are merely bound with twilled
silk ribbon, held by a row of the brier-
along the edge. Instead of
linen cambria shirts, many mothers
prefer ribbed silk or cashmere shirts.
which are elastic and pleasant next the
chlld's tender flesh, these are high III
the neck, with long sleeves.
Shocking is done on the fronts of
the pretty white flannel or cashmere
wrappers worn by infants; the smock-
ing forms yoke in the front, and the
simple trimming is then seed stitches
aiken in white, pink, or blue floss in
;hree Or four rows down the fronts and
around the foot above button-holed
EDGE. A trimming of blue or pink satin
'ibbon three-fourths of an inch wide.
llso pretty for wrappers, is held by
eather-stitching on each edge; it forms I
'orders On the collar, sleeves, fronts
md around the foot, and there are rows
# Misunderstanding between tucks on
he yoke, also tiny loops of ribbon. The
quare of fine white flannel used as a
hawl may have an inch-wide binding
white satin ribbon held by feather
itching; daises or other tiny flowers
re wrought above in preference to the
inc of embroidery and scallops formerly
one. A seconds quare of flannel for head
lanket has oneIcorner gathered to forma
God. Little sacques of white cashmere
ave vine of colored embroidery in ,
ose-bud, daisy, or forget-me-not pat
rms, or else they are simply scalloped,
: they have the favorite ribbon bind
lg with Misunderstanding along the
1ge.-Hasper's Bazaar.