The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-05-03
DRESSES EoR GIRLS.
Pretty Gowns Made Of Cashmere, NaIn.o

Pretty Gowns Made of Cashmere, NaInsook
and other Materials.
Gray, green, tan, blue and old-rose
bordered serges are made up for girls
of fOuSteen in one piece dresses buttoued
behind, with the border around the full
skirt and on revers that extend up the
front. Plaid wool gowns are cut on the
bias throughout while cashmeres are
mado up in gray-blue and old-rose
shades in pretty Directoire styles,
sometimes with the princesse back, and
in other cases the waist is cut of below
the back and side forms and the skirt
attached thereto. The front Of the
waist is a short half-jacI1et with velvet
or bengaline revers, opening over n
shirt waist of white India silk, or the
silk is crossed on the chest, and there is
the wide folded sash that gives a short
wasted effect, and is so becoming to
slight immature figures The cashmere
sleeves then reach only to the elbow,
with white silk under-sleeves coming
out in puff attached to velvet wrist
bands
Wash dresses for girls just 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 breadths simply
hemmed The furnishing houses make
elaborate Tapped Empire waists and
DirectOire revers to plain bingham
gowns and trim them with costly en-
broideries, but mothers who have their
girls dresses made at home need not
attempt to copy them, as the simpler
gowns are quite as pretty and far more
youthful The skirts must not be
skimped in width, and need not be
trimmed, though tucSs or insertion
above a hem are in great favor.
Girls OF fourteen or fifteen years
wear their skirts reaching almost &c
their shoe-tops, and at sixteen or sew
enteen years they put on long skirts,
though this is decided by their size and
development Extremely long skirts
for tiny'little girls have lost favor, and
the GENERAL rule is for girls from three
TO twelve years of age to have their
skirts stop half way between their
knees and the tops of their shoes. The
first short dresses put on an infant must
be long enough for warmth, vet short
enough to escape the tiny feet whom
first attempting to walk. The extreme
~ short waists are no longer made for
little girls, though wide bands Of EN-.
broidery and ribbon sashes are some
times put on to give a short-waisted
effect The skirts, as we have said,
must be amply full At the best dress
makers for children two full widths oil
gingham are in skirts for girls Of two
10 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 plaits in
front and sides, and shirred in the
back. White nainsook skirts have
three and a half breadths for girls
eight to ten years old, and chalH skirts
for girls of ten years have four breudths.
White French nainsool1 dresses 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 being full
and straight, with a hem and three
tucks. Mothers, however, make pretty
one-piece dresses Of this kind either by
filling cut the mock with a guimpe sci
in permanently and adding full sleeves,
or else by making simpler high waists
with insertion bands going up over the
shoulders from the belt, or by shirripg
the top as round yoke, or by intro
ducing embroidery in the under-arm
seams. sloping it to point in the mid
die Of the front of the waist line, and
gathering the nainsook there and
around the neck. Many colored rib.
bons are put around the sides of the
pointed waists of white dresses. for in
stance. two shades of old-rose gros
grain ribbon two inches wide are LAID
along the waist line. with two small
bows in front and a flowing bow behind,
also n small bow on each shoulder.
Scolloped embroidered muslin skirts
are not liked so we'll as those with in
sertiOns and hem.
The new white woods, that have pen.
ciled lines of color in silk are used in
stead of plain white wool for dressy lit
tie Directoire gowns for girls OF six to
ten years The skirt is gathered or
pleated very simply and sewed to "a low
round waist buttoned behind, but which
has long coat tabs down each side from
the neck to the foot Of the skirt, while
the front has short half-iacl1et with
Dirsctoire revers covered with velvet.
and opening over a gathered vest of
China silk This is very pretty in
white wool striped with green and
revers Of green velvet OF course this
requires n guimpe, but in some such
gowns a China silk guinpe and ull
sleeves are set in permanently, of col
on in the stripes those of yellow silk
being especially pretty witt white wool
striped with yellow. Harper BAR.