St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-08
DRESS AIDS FOR MOTHERS.
Girls, Best Frocks.


dren's parties, dancing school and for
company use at home. For a girl of f1f-
teen have light turquoise-blue, pink,
tan or pearl-gray cashmere made with
gathered skirt. full topped sleeves and
a high bodice slightly pointed back and
front, shirred at the neck and waist
line, and trimmed with bretelles
ending Oh the shoulders in rosetteS of
black velvet. For another girl of this
age have pink or blue China silk.
fashioned with gathered skirt, edged
with boX-plaited ruche OF the material,
full sleeves, and round, full bodice,
with frill of lace turned over from the
Then have a black velvet bodice or
glrdle, round and laced in the
back and pointed in front. If
the miss standing where girl and
womanhood meet"-is rosy bruno tie.
try frock of yellow cashmere, China
silk. wool crepe or bengaline. having
bretelles, shoulder rosettes and rows on
the skirt of No. Z ribbon velvet. Pale
blue gowns are tastefully trimmed with
large sleeves and V-shaped yokes Of
black, blue or red yalvet. Cream-col-
ored dresses for girls over fourteen
years of age have the universally
worn gathered skirts, slightly pointed,
low-necked, full waist, with pulled
sleeves and full guimpe shirred at the
neck, and full sleeves Of plain. colored
or polkadotted silk. as yellow, pink,
blue or mauve. The younger sister
wears cashmere, bengaline, crepon or
China silk gowns in yellow, with high
waist, shirred around the neck, and
waist-line under belt OF black
velvet ribbon, finished with cabbage
rosettes on either side Of the center OF
the waist, back and front. The sleeve
puffs On the shoulder and collar are of
velvet ribbon. Half-low, round waists
are made with velvet yoke, or may be
worn with lace yoke drawn up with
tiny ribbons, knotted in rosettes here
and there. Pale blue surah has shirred
skirt, shirred half-high waist and
full sleeves, with gulmpe
OF Valenclennes threaded with
blue ribbon No. l. Pearl-gray
cashmere frocks are made up with clear,
dark-green velvet trimmings. Large
buttons covered with velvet are worn in
place of the rosettes for change. Vel
vet jacket fronts are dressy for girls
from four to sixteen years of age. One
shade of bright Stem-green velvet RIB
bon is exquisite with pink, and is much
worn by little girls.
The Gertrude Dress.
This is name given to the infants
dresses that open i'll front, which fashion
was first started in London, and is fast
spreading here, as its utility at once i'm
presses any mother. The dresses and
skirts are all shaped as usual, only they
are opened in front instead of i'll
the back, which is at once
more convenient for the dresses
and must certainly be more
comfortable for the infant, who is usually
turned back and forward during dress
ing until he or she must wonder if all
the world is one continual ''go-around."
Mothers believing in natural wool for
undergarments clothe infants in it from
the commencement, using the shirts,
skirts, and even the dresses, which are
CT a fine camePS hair wool taffeta.
which is forty inches wide and S1.25
yard. Physicians now do not advise
linen, so use fine muslin sheets and pill
low slips if anxious about the future
health of the baby. Hair pillows, lightly
stuffed, are also recommended by the
health seekers. Finely-Woven Shetland
wool wells are worn over a very young
infants face.
Dressing Baby Boys.
In the way of headgear, white felt
hats, having ruche of lace dotted with
ribbon rosettes, are worn by boys of one
to two years. Later on they wear tur-
bans of cloth or velvet, having full
crown; Tam O'ShanterS, sailor shapes,
Scotch caps, pork-pie hats, etc.
Their first coats are of white
tufted cloth, astrakhan or eiderdown.
Then they have pea-jackets of
blue cloth. or box-plaited skirts, single
breasted waists. coat sleeves and single
cape overcoats. Beaver and astrakhan
trimmings take well. When a year old
a boy may wear cambria, nainSook or
bingham dresses, having gathered
skirt, shirt sleeves. rolled collar and
round waist fastened with pearl
buttons in the back. The waist
may be box-plaited or tucked, and
the bingham dresses may have the col
lar and wristbands of embroidery.
After dressing in this style for year
and half, these small men arrive at
the dignity of yoke dresses made with
kilt-plaited skirts, having a flat apron
in front. or, if small for their
age, they still wear gathered
skirts of two breadths of double
width goods. The waist may have
jacket fronts, boX-plaitS, or yoke and
belt of velvet or contrasting wooden
material. A lovely best suit for boy
of three years is kilt and jacket waist
of cream serge, with China silk blouse.
A sailor hat of cloth to match is worn,
and white lamb's-wool coat. Leggins