The Russellville Democrat., 1889-05-02
DRESSES FOR GIRLS.
Pretty Gowns Made of Cashmere, NalnsoC
and Other Materials

Pretty Gowns Made of Cashmere, Nainsooi<
and other Materials.
GRAY, green, tan, blue aud old-roso
bordered serges are made up for girls
Of foueteen in one piece dresses buttoned
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
made up in grav-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-iackot with velvet
or bengaline revers, opening over a
shirt waist of white India silk, or tho
silk is crossed on the chest, and there is
the wide folded sash that gives short
wasted effect, and is so becoming to
slight immature figures. The cashmere
sleeves then reach only to the elbow,
with white silk uuder-s' ecves coming
out in a puff attached to velvet wrist
bands.
Wash dresses for girls just in their
teens arc made with bcltcd 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 hrcadths simply
hemmcd. The furnishing houses make
elaborate Tapped Empire waists and
Directoire revers to plain gingham
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
skimpcd in width, and need not be
trimmed, though tucks or insertion
above a hem are in great favor
Girls Of fourteen or fifteen years
wear their skirts reaching almost tc
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, aud
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, yet short
enough TO escape the tiny feet when
first attempting to walk. The extreme.
ly 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 waisied
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
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 plaits in
front and sides, and shirrcd in the
back. White nainsoolt skirts have
three and a half breadths for girls
eight to ten years old, and challi skirts
for girls of ten years have four breadths
White French painsook 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 FUN
and straight with a hem and three
tucks. Mothers, however, make pretty
one-piece dresses of this kind either by
filling cut the neck with guimpe sci
in permanently and adding full sleeves.
or else by making simpler high W aists
with Insertion bands going up over the
shoulders from the belt, or by shirrrg
the top as round yoke, or by intro.
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 q 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
eiled 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 from. has short half-jacket with
Diroctoire revers covered with velvet,
md opening over - gathered vest OF
China silk. This is very pretty in
white wool striped with green and
revers of green velvet, OF course this
requires a guimpe, but in some such
gowns a China silk guimpe and iull
sleeves are set in permanently, OF col !
or in the stripes those OF yellow silk
being especially pretty wit white wool
striped with yellow. -Harpcrs Bar.
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