The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-12-30
DOLLY'S WARDROBE
Her Gowns Should be Cut
After Your Own
Patterns.
EDNA LYALL's PERSoNAGEs
The Popular Authoress Tells OF
Her Literary Work-The Tur-
keys Wishbone-Useful
ness of Deceit.
EDNA LYALL'S P%ERs0NAGES

A man writing in the current issue of
a popular magazine says II must con-
fess that I like to see a woman dress a
doll, and the older the woman the better
/ like to see her. There is something ex-
tremely fascinating about 1t to me. / can
watch her by the hour as she s~traightens
out the miniature petticoats, fits on the
Liliputian stockings or tucks on the Won
derful bow at the throat, which always
makes a doll look SO fetching to me-. and
without which / can never imagine the
dress of a really well-bred doll to be com
plete. All this makes a woman feel young
again, and why should it not? The good
Lord knows we have enough in this world
to make us grow old; why not haveNa few
things to make us grow young?"
The dressing of dolls is a feature of
Christmas. The doll that will really
please a little mother is one that is thor
oughly fin de steele as to her wrap, hat
and all the appurtenances of her costume.
Patterns, which come with explicit direc-
ions as to the cutting and making of
these tiny garments, render this a simple
matter. Few are ingenious enough to
evolve these patterns out of their inner
consciousness, or clever enough to reduce
the pattern of a forty inch skirt to a 0
inch one without bungling the work. The
fifteen.or twenty cents expended in pur-
chasing the pattern is money well spent.
These patterns come in the very latest
styles of full skirts, blouse, waists, golf
capes, or even evening gowns. The sizes
vary from those suited to a doll measure
ing a few inches in height to those which
approach the realm of babyland.
In making doll clothes one prime essen
tial-if they are to really please-is that
they shall come on and off, having actual
buttons and button-holes, and bon fde
hooks and eyes.
A charming doll dressed in this city
last week destined to find its way to
Washington to one of the little babies OF
the Cabinet, was turned out a modish and
stylish young woman. Her lingerie was
lace trimmed and beribboned and fashion
ed from fine ~nainsook. The petticoat of
~changeable rose colored silk had a ruffle
of black lace, falling over a narrower
one of silk. The skirt of the garment
was of fine dark blue cloth, silk lined,
well stiffened, cut in the latest flare. A
dust ruf1e and a binding of blue velveteen
finished the bottom. The bodice, of fine
plaid silk, was made with tight fitting
back and blouse front and trimmed with
the narrowest of black velvet ribbon,
put on in straps over the shoulders, fast
ened with diminutive brass buttons placed
in groups of three. The sleeves were
very full.
A golf cape was the wrap. 1t was made
from rough blue cloth, with a small plaid
lining. The hood, of course, was made
with the plaid side showing, as were also
the straps, which buttoned at the back,
Fastening the cap in conventional style.
The hat, of blue felt, was trimmed with
blue plaid ribbon, with two stiff quilts at
the side, robbed from the Japanese feath-
err buster.
A style of dress much in vogue for dolls
at present is dainty little gowns of sheer
white null, trimmed with the finest of
Hamburg edging and finished with but
terhy bows of blue or pink ribbon. They
offer the great advantage of being easily
laundered, emerging from a bath of suds
and water as fresh and dainty as when
new. hi little gowns of blue or pink
chambre are very popular. Also those
made from fine Bingham.
Such accessories to a dolls outfit as
parasol, rubbers, macintosh, and ever
umbrellas, are all obtainable at the large
shops nowadays, and the shopkeepers
drive a brisk trade in these small affairs
during the holiday season.