Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-08
ALL-WH|TE SEASON
Fashion Says It Must Be So
for the Wee Folks.
BLACK SHOES, THOUGH
REPLACE LAST YEARS PERSIA
BILE FOOTWEAR.
How to Buy Piques, Lawns and Laces
for Growing Families-Other
Hints.
BLACK SHOES, THOUGH


| Written for The Evening Star by Katherine An
| dersnn.
Blessed above all women this spring is
| she who has little ones between two and
| ten for verify the Juvenile fashions are
joy to the woman of economical mind and
| deft fingers.
First and foremost it is to be a white
| season. And what mother who has strug-
gled with the selection of delicately tinted
| wash fabrics will not rejoice in that one
| fact alone?'
For fascinating little frocks, white pique
plain or figured with white dots or tiny
! conventional patterns, linen. madras crash
and all grades of lawn from q very good
quality of native manufacture at 121s cents
| a yard to an imported batiste at S12 are
| offered in bewildering confusion A mother
! who has tided a family of six through sew
eral white seasons tells me that it always
| pays to wash all white samples In this
way she learns how much they will shrink
| how they will look when robbed of their
show window dressing and how close or
| coarse the texture will be after the tub
bling process. Some piques in particular
wash up SO close that they are stiff and
| heavy. On the other hand. lawns priced
| as high as 80 cents a yard sometimes wash
| out to look as coarse as the 12h-cent quail
| lty. This same mother buys her lawn by
the bolt. as different qualities cost more in
| small lots, and the general effect after
washing is substantially the same The diff
| ference between frocks is secured purely by
| the variety of trimmings and designs
In all the dainty lawn or batiste dresses
| SHOWN by importers, the seams display fag-
| citing, hemstitching or drawn work effects
! This is clearly the stamp of hand-wrought
| Juvenile raiment. The mother who has nei-
! Their the time nor the knowledge of stitchery
| to accomplish this work may substitute
very fine beading which Stimulates the
| hand stitches very cleverly. When this is
! employed the edges of the cores are rolled
| very finely and whipped to the edge of the
| beading.
Tucking is enjoying a tremendous vogue,
| but the puffs and elaborate shirrings, which
were a feature of wash frocks last summer
| are little seen, for which let mothers and
| laundresses be thankful.
Ornate Designs.
| One feature of trimming for sheer dresses,
which every proud mother should notice
| particularly, is the rather ornate designs
| for intersecting lace or embroidery. The
intersection does not run round and round
| the skirt and bodice nor up and down, but
| 1t Is laid on in circular, square or diamond
| shaped designs, like the appliques of braid
! employed during the winter. This pattern
may be drawn upon the small skirt or
| blouse by means of a compass or the more
| humble method of laying q small Gun or
| saucer on the cloth and drawing pencil
| lines about it,. After the lace has been ap-
pllqueds the cloth beneath 1t is cut away
| and the raw edges scanned to.-the lace
/ with Infinite care. The skirt and. little
blouse waist of a frock shown at a smart
| shop for clothing youngsters has the lace
| inset in the form of tall, slender VS." Civ
| ing pointed effect to the blouse which
| is extremely becoming to the short rolIy-
| polly type of girl.
With these very sheer dresses are worn
| nat, chubby rosettes of baby ribbon in
hr,oox IN1,
| made, at very small cost, in any juvenile
department of the larger stores. Sometimes
| two rosettes are employed as a finish to the
! square round yoke and at the hack of
the belt, and in this case the rosettes are
| connected by strands of ribbon not draped
plain, but twisted, much as the old-fash-
Toned lamp-llghters of paper We're turned.
| 4okes are being displaced by Dutch or
even deep, square-cut necks and three
quarter, or elbow, sleeves are quite the
| right thing, for the little girls afternoon
lrock. her mamma may mix nansook en-
proioery ana lace on one white frock but
the wee daughters dress is trimmed with
one or the other never both
Frocks Are Full.
Sheer frocks are very full, and six wards
| around the hem is none too wide for the
| girl or eight or ten. This fuffiness-and
| what wee maiden does not reveI in full
pliiowy skirts?-is emphasized by the use
| or lace edging as finish for the skirt ruf
| he. incidentally, it will pay the econom-
lcal mother of several little girls to follow
up sales of Valenciennes. 1t is the hest
| OF all wash laces and should be bought
by the bolt in matching patterns of inser-
| ton and edgfng.
| White shoes and stockings are offarad IN
match the all-white frocks. White stock
| lngs IN very good quality of Isle NAV be
! bought this season for 371a cents Dair
and unless Isle can be purchased let the
| little girl stick to fine black hosiery. as
a cheap cotton stocking in white will ruin
| the effect of the daintiest little frocl Roth
| the ail-patent leather slipper and the fine
Kid boot with patent leather trimmings
are worn with white hosiery
The new all-white coats are easily mi-
| tated at home. For very small children
| the daint1est coats are evolved from the
| best quality Of Irish linen, lawn or piuue
| simply finished with hand-stftchery A
beautiful model on semi-fitted lines was
| full length with a double-breasted effect
| down the front. It's sole decorat tons was
a deep cape and cuffs, hand-emb roidered
| but In pattern that any busy home-em-
broiderer could do at intervals The edges
| of the cape and cuffs were scalloped and
| finished with button-hole stitching. while
| powdering the entire surface of the cape
were small bowknots in heavy Madeira
| embroidery. For wear with these coats
come lingerie hats in matching designs
For instance, with the lawn coat the
matching hat had scalioped brim, pow
dered with tiny bowknots and faced with
| innumerable rows of Valenciennes lace No
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| crown and brim were separated with a
| rose-ruching of the lace.
Shades of Blue
| In color, shade of blue somewhat
| deeper than the porcelain of last season
| seems to be prime favorite. 1t comes in
| all sorts of wash fabrics from serv-
| iceable chambray at 10 cents a yard,
| through the various priced mercerized
| effects, to the best quality of linen AS to
| choice, experienced mothers say that either
| extreme is better than the medium priced
| goods, and very pretty effects are evolved
| from the cheaper chambray stitched with
white and trimmed with bit of hand
! embroidery. The most desirable of these
| little frocks are made with separate collar
| guimpes or berthas, and the handwork in
| white scalloping, bowknots, feur-de-lis
| small geometrical powderlings appear on
! these separate pieces.
| For all-white coats of dressy char
acter either pongee or highly finished
| silk is employed. Very little plain taft
| fetas or corded silk is seen in coats. The
| new sleeves are roomy in the armhole
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