The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-08-01
MODES FOR CHILDREN.
How to Dress Boys and Girls Neatly an,
Attractively.

Attractively.
Now that the season is we'll estab-
lished, it is a pleasure to chronicle
the doings of fashion with regard to
children's apparel. The simplest styles
are the most popular and by far the
prettiest, and manufacturers have re-
sponded to this preference by preparing
the finest cottons. the softest and most
delicate woolenS, and mixtures which
are the most effective when made up
without elaboration. White fabrics of
all kinds are chosen for the midsum-
mer dresses worn by both large and
small girls, making beautiful effects by
the use of embroidery, lace and ribbon.
Plain woolens of fine texture in white,
cream and light shades generally are
very much employed, and form an ex-
cellent foundation for trimmings of
guipure and embroidery, which may be
wrought separately or on the dress ma
terial. A very pretty dress for girl Of
ten is made of pale willowgreen CASH
mere, and is cut in princess shape at
the front and back. At the sides the
skirt is joined to the bodice under belt
of ribbon. A blouse front of pale green
silk is gathered at the neck and waist,
but finely plated below, and is fastened
to the dress diagonally from the right
shoulder down under band of hand
some embroidery. The back is arranged
in triple box-plait starting at the
neck under collar of embroidery and
ornamented with long loops and ends of
narrow ribbon. The ribbon belt begins
under the plat and ties in front. The
sleeves are very full and are drawn in
above each wrist under band and bow
of ribbon, and knot of ribbon is also
placed up the left shoulder. This dress
would be equally pretty in washing ma
terials trimmed with embroidery, and
the drapery might in this case be al
lowed to fall in natural folds instead of
being plated, a style more suitable for
washing dresses.
A pretty little dress for a girl from
eight to fourteen years old is made of
plaid fabric, either of wooden or Scotch
zephyr, and has the front and sleeves
cut on the bias, while the back is
straight. The body is gathered at the
neck and waist at both front and back,
and fastened in front invisibly among
the folds of the material. A ribbon
band around the waist is folded to
point in front, and there are long loops
and ends on the left side of the front
and at the center-back The full sleeves
are each drawn in with ribbon at the
wrist, and a bow is placed at the inside
Of the arm. The back part of the skirt
only is cut on the straight, mounted
with gathers at the waist, and bordered
with a deep flounce of embroidery laid
on fiat. The collar is deep rutfie of
embroidery closing at the back.
A neat summer suit for a boy from
eight to eleven years is made as follows:
The trousers are of white flannel. and
are cut in true sailor fashion, while the
blouse is of marine-blue flannel, en-
broidered in white, with white shield.
The sailor cap is also of the blue flannel.
Simple dresses for little boys of four
and five years are made in sacque
shape, either in serge or seersucker, and
trimmed with fiat bands of embroidery
The front is closed diagonally from the.
left shoulder, and belt of embroidery
fastens with a buckle or metal clasp.
When the material is serge, little
polo cap of the same, with broad band
of the embroidery, is made to complete
the costume.
A great many girls hats for summer
wear are made of fancy straw in white,
black, ard colors, especially beige. The
crowns are low and fiat, the brims wide
in front, and are either wide and turned
up against the crown at the back, or
very much shorter behind and concealed
by trimming. Leghorn hats are the
standard kind for children's broad brims,
and they are allowed to droop limp
about the face, perhaps weighted here
and there by flower-branches. Many
light and cool hats for little tots are
made of Liberty" or China silk shirred
over reeds or wire.
The most satisfactory everyday
dresses for children, being at once cool,
durable and cheap, are make of cross
barred linen, the kind which is sold for
glass toweling. 1t only costs twelve
cents a yard, and the prettiest possible
dresses for both little boys and girls
are made into kilt or gathered skirts
and blouse waists.-Leslie's Illustrated