Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31
Few Real Laces Used.

Few Real Laces Used.
These laces are not real, of course; but
never We're limitations more cunningly con-
ceived, and in some of the Valenciennes
patterns, especially, the rare designs of
the antique webs are faithfully reproduced.
At the shops which cater to the older and
more solid trade, all of the fine underwear
laces may be found. Smart women buy
them now, and since it is once more the
fashion to sew, many a feminine tea is
made peaceful and pleasant through a bit
of pickup work.
When ii comes to underwear for chill
dren, so cheap and well made are the shop
things that it seems a waste of time TO
ashton them at home. Underwear for
small fry also aims more at comfort than
at beauty of make and material. There
are cute chemises. simply edged at the
neck with Valenciennes lace, for lassies as
young as six, but the corded body, with
drawers of heavy drilling, worn over
warm merino underVest, is seen more gen
orally. The buttons of these are put on
comfortably with tapes, and for girls the
insertion of several whalebones sometimes
gives infantile garments maturer i'm
portance. PetticoatS for the maiden age
are made with waist band merely, which
is pinned to the boned body at several
points. But for smaller girls the same
white long-cloth and Hamburg embroidery
are sometimes made into sort of princess
robe, which for misses who will not hold
themselves straight is likewise often boned
at the back French mothers are very
exacting as to the Tet of children's clothes.
so girls often forced into boned gar
ments at a surprisingly early age.
Plain in Front.
To keep the skirts out at the back in
the correct Partisan fashion, the robe ct
ticoat has one or more founces put on full
and further stiffened at the bottom with
trimming. The front of the garment is
antlrr n1ni,a a.
A quainter petticoat has a full-tucked
and embroidery trimmed skirt gathered to
plain, short-waisted body. The neck and
armholes of this are embroidered and seal
Hoped by hand.
Winter night garments for both boys
and girls are in warm materials, with pa
jana forms as first choice. Pajama suits
for little girls are Smartened with pretty
ribbon borders, and the trousers of the best
models are made so wide as to seem almost
like divided skirts. Night drawers of cot
ton flannel, including even sock cut for
chilly feet, are also shown for both sexes.
But many children resent the Imprisonment
of both these and the pajama suits, so for
such there are regulation nighties in the
SAM ccddling flannels used for grown-ups.
The white pants worn by boys in dresses
are narrow in the leg and simply edged.
Drawers for girls smarter, though the
very wide models of the grown-up world
are not approved. \ long-cloth model much
liked is in knicker form, with a band and
frill of embroidery finishing the gathered
legs, which, in length, is nothing at all.
In fact, drawers for children are almost
all seat, for the minute the leg is length
ened the garment becomes combining. The
| heaviest long-cloth, and even sheeiing, are
materials used, with such stout Hamburg
embroideries as go with these materials.
An innovation in childrens underwear
is the introduction of odd animal designs in
some of the band trimmings used upon the
pajama suits. Elephant and bulldog heads
do 10 dnnS olyn cni 10 t,o1
pleasant. They also match some of the
startling papers used in the fashionable
nursery, which may have all the animals
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renelv around the frieZe MARY DEAN