Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-04-05
THE HOUSEHOLD.
SPRING FASHIONS FoR GRLS.
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Wash dresses for girls in their teens
are made with belted yoke waists and full
sleeves, fine tucks forming the yoke and
the tops Of the sleeves, or else shaping the
wrists The skirts are of four straight
hreadths, simply hemmed The skirts must
not be skimped in width, and need not be
/ trimmed, though tucks or insertion above a
hem are in great favor. Girls Of IL or 10
years wear their skirts reaching almost to
| their shoe-t tops, and at l6 or IA years they
put on long skirts, though this is decided
somewhat by their size and development.
| For girls from three TO 10 years the skirts
stop half way between the knee and the top
Of the shoe. Two full widths Of bingham
are used in skirts for girls from two to four
| years. and three widths in those for six.
year old girls Cashmere skirts for girls of
eight years have three breadths, laid in
triple box pleats in front and sides and
shirred in the back White nainsooks skirts
have 81 breadths for girls eight TO 10 years
old.
Dresses of white French 'nainsook for
| girls of ten years and less are made with
separate guimpes, the waist being low and
pointed, Of solid embroidery Tapped in front,
and the skirt full and straight with hem
and three tucks Pretty one piece dresses
of this kind are also made, either by filling
out the neck with gumpe set in perma-
nently and adding full sleeves, or else by
making simpler high waists with insertion
bands going up over the shoulders from the
belt, or by shirring the top as a round yoke,
or by introducing embroidery in the under
arm seams, sloping it to point in the mid
die of the front Of the waist line, and gath
ering the nainsook there and around the
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white cambria or Of embroidery and white
cambria sleeves are often sewed in bingham
and percale dresses for girls from three to
ten. A square from the tops Of the should
er seams halfway down the back and front
of finely tucked muslin is set in plain round
waists of pink, buff or blue bingham, and
the long full sleeves are of white muslin
gathered to band, with short caps or half
long sleeves of the Bingham above. In
other gingham waists V of all-over white
embroidery descends from neck to waist
| line in front, while another pretty way is
to insert tucked cambria four or five inches
| wide straight down from collar to waist
and then add revers of embroidery at the
sides of the tucking, making their points
meet on the middle of the tucked front.
For the smaller girls sash of the material
is sewed in the under arm seam and tied in
bow behind each end of the sash is a
yard long and about six inches wide.
Dressy little Directoire dresses for girls
from six to ten are made of white wool
goods with penciled lines of color in silk.
The skirt is simply pleated or gathered and
sewed to low round waist buttoned be-
hind, the front having a short half Jacket
with Directoire revers covered with velvet.
opening over a gathered vest of China silk
The silk and velvet should match the pencil
stripe in color
Spring jackets for misses in their teens
are little changed from last year, the new
est having short Directoire revers turning
back from a vest of lighter cloth than the
| Jacket, while many retain the single revers
of last year, or are slightly loose in front.
tapping double-breasted with two rows of
buttons. listers. the Connemara cloak
and the Directoire shoulder-cape will also
be popular
For girls of four to ten years are long.
straight coats with large sleeves of the new
| spring cloths in gray, ecru, fawn, green.
copper or metallic blue. They are made
straight and slender, with fiat pleats laid in
the middle back seams, double breasted full
sleeves, and are just long enough TO con
ceal the dress skirt. They are trimmed
with collar, revers and deep cuffs of velvet,
ana have ribbon two inches wide twisted
around the waist, ending in front and back
| with two full bows with notched ends
Other cloaks are made with round waist
and pleated skirt with a pleated girde, and
triple capes neatly stitched on the edges.
Round hats for girls in their teens have
low crowns and projecting brims, and for
everyday wear will be trimmed with wide
ribbon, while for best wear they will be
tiower-laden. Toques and turbans in round
and oval shapes will also be much worn.
Smaller girls will wear Empire bonnets with
poke fronts holding flowers inside and &C.
! centric bows of ribbon on their crowns.
There are also quaint Quaker bonnets with
straw fronts close to the ears, and high
crowns of lace or silk The brms of round
hats are not faced, and many are not wir
ed. The brims of Leghorn flats are fan
tastically curved, and are trimmed with
wreaths aud white ribbons, or else with
short h.lc yellow ostrich plumes
Turned dUwn pleated frills Of embroider-
ed muslin are used for the neck and sleeves
OF little girls dresses, and they continue to
wear large IS lte neckties with embroidery
or drawnwork, tied in a great bow at the
throat. Larger girls haste narrow feather
edged ribbon, white or colored, in the neck
and sleeves, and tie in small bows Color.
ed ribbons will be much worn with chill
dren's white dresses. Black stockings are
retained for children, and buttoned shoes
without heels are worn by girls up to the
age oil ten years. -Hdtper'S Bdzur.