Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-03-26
GIRLS. elNoHAM DRESSES.
The Tendency to Make These Useful
Gowns Very Simply

The Tendency to Make These Useful
Gowns Very Simply.
Scotch gingham dresses are made up
at this season for little girls to wear all
the year, alternating them with their
white irocks, and for larger girls to
wear throughout the summer The new
chine-1gured ginghams in detached flow
ers or in wide stripes are chosen for
even very small girls: also the clan
plaids. the small checks, and stripes
both narrow and wide. in yellow, green
or lavender, alternating with white, as
well as the familiar pink, red or blue
stripes and checks.
The sensible tendency is to make these
useful dresses very simply, with high
round waists, giving them a smart look
by making the full sleeves very high on
the shoulders; yet low waists worn over
guimpes are still preferred by many,
/ while others simulate a guimpe by in
1 Producing embroidery, or white tucked
nalnsook plastron, and white sleeves
sewed permanently into the high ging-
ham waist. Most waists are round. not
! pointed In front, their only seams being
/ those under the arms and on the shout
4 ders For the smallest dresses these
round waists are plain over their
/ so1t cambria lining, with sash
OF the gingham sewed in the side
seams and tied behind. The trimming
Is open patterned embroidery, two or
] three inches wide, passing up over the
! shoulders as bretelles, and also forming
the turned-down collar and the small
cuffs of the large sleeves Other small
round waists have four lengthwise box
plaits in frontand back separated by en-
broidered insertion there are three rows
OF lnsertion), with sleeves of mutton-leg
shape, cut each in one piece, very full
and high above the arm-hole. then
tapered to tit the arm below the elbow.
ne skirt, of two straight breadths with
four-inch hem, is long enough to fall
halfway between the knees and ankles.
Extreme styles are avoided in these
dresses, such as the French frocks with
long waist and short skirt, and the Kate
Greenaway gowns with short waists and
and long skirts that trip the child as
she walks
Baby waists for bingham dresses with
belt of embroidery will be worn with
a high, round and shallow yoke of en-
broidery by the smallest girls. while
those from four to ten years will wear
similar waists, and also low n cked baby
waists, over high gu;mpe with long
sleeves. Such waists are not lined.
Bias sleeves are effective in these waists.
with puff at the top formed by band
of the embroidery.
Pretty round gingham waists for girls
OF six years are of plaids made bias in
sfront, and Tapped from shoulder to waist
line with a tucked muslin plastron set
between. The Tapped edges OF the front
are straight, with two tucks and hem
along each edge: they begin at the top
OF the shoulder seam, meet on the bust.
and lap to the waist line, and this ar
rangement brings the plaids bias along
the sides. A of tucked muslin ap-
pears in the opening below the throat,
and is usually part Of an entire muslin
front set underneath from side seam TO
side seam, but tucked only where il is
visible. The straight back has two
tuckS down each side of the buttons; a
sash of the gingham made of two ends
sewed in the side seams is tied behind !
in great bow Other plaid bingham
fronts cut entirely bias are turned back
in narrow reverS from the waist line to |
the shoulders and edged with embroid-
cry, of embroidery filling up the
middle. Still other waists have square
jacket fronts turned back at top in short |
revers, and open over plain round |
waist that has a broad box plat down |
the middle trimmed with cdging down |
each side; a row of tiny pearl buttons |
set very near together is down the mid |
die OF the plat.
The straight skirts of girls dresses are
made very full this season, two breadths |
of Scotch bingham being used for girls |
of four years, two and a half breadths |
for those of six or eight years, and three
and half breadths for ten-year-old |
girls; more exact dimensions can not be
given for dresses of growing girls; but |
mothers must see that their skirts arc
full in the back and sides and not too
scant in front. When trimming is used
on skirts it consists of cluster of tucks
or rows Of Insertion above hem, Wash !
dresses have their skirts gathered all
around at the top, but those of cash
mere, challi, or India silk may be varied
by side plaits or box plaits in front and
gathers elsewhere. -Harper's Ra.asr