Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-09

immaculate and to that end must have an
enormous supply Of clothes.
Everything must be made with great
care and daintlness, but as for pretentious-
ness or elaboration-no indeed! The woman
who could we'll AFFORD to turn her small
daughter out to play in lace trimmed and
hand embroidered clothes is the one who
puts that same small daughter into denim
overalls or jumpers OF linen or Bingham.
There are mothers who have fancy for
dressing their very small girls always in
white--white linen or pique made in the
simplest fashion for morning and general
hard wear. thin little frocks of lingerie
materials for more elaborate dress; but the
average little girl after she leaves her long
baby frocks and her very first short frocks
behind has a supply Of play frUcks in ging-
ham, colored dimities, linens. etc. and some
of these little frocks are extremely cum
ming.
Lovely. narrow embroidery edgings and
insertions, fine and sheer enough 70 look
babyish, are used for small childrens
frocks, but chiefly upon the heavier ma
terials. such as pidues and linens and
ginghams. Colored embroideries trim some
of the one-toned linens and certain Bolton
embroideries in reds and blues are effective
upon ecru, string color and similar soft
colorings.
The simpler forms Of hand embridery.
such as embroidered wafer dots upon plain
bands are much liked for the trimming
Of plain tone linens and in concession to
the liking for browns attractive little play
frocks Of Russian or blouse and skirt de-
sign have been made up in plain Irvine
color. ecru, khaki and natural toned linens
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dickey or guimpe is desirable with frock
Of this type, as the brownish colorings are
likely to be unbecomlng next the face and
to look hot. unless lightened by relieving
note Of white.
Embroidery Trimmings.
The Irvine colors and kindred neutral
brownish tones are often embroidered in
white and made up with white shields or
guimpes, and play frocks on this order are
both practical and cool looking. Open
work embroidery OF the English eyelet sort
combined with blind embroidery trims
many of the smartest little frocks in linen
or pique a very little Of such embroidery
combined with button-holed scallop edging
furnishing the most effective of trimmings
for such firm and heavy materials. Ma
chine buttonhole scallop embroidery can
be done at very slight expense at any or
the various sewing machine shops. and Is
good device for the finishing Of linen or
pioue collars. cuffs, etc.
The French pique, fine and soft and
laundering with little or no starch, Is ex-
cellent material for child frocks and coats
and though more expensGve than the ordi-
nary piuue and not always readily found Is
preferable to the cheaper and more ordi-
nary qualities.
Fine Scotch ginghams are among the
stoutest and most serviceable OF the col
ored stuffs suitable for little play frocks
and the little pink and white and blue and
white checks in these ginghams are peren-
NAL favorites with the makers of chill
dren's clothes. Some dear little jumpers
and play frocks are shown in brown and
white check this spring, the check being
small and the brown OF a bright, clear
shade Pretty Scotch Bingham jumpers
! in three tone checks, a brown and dull
blue and white combinations or dark
/ blue, light blue and white, are popular.
Figured dimities with white grounds and
very tinted designs in pink are childish
materials which make up into dainty little
! frocks with trimmings OF narrow valen
ciennes and very narrow fine embroidery
beading The dotted dimities, too, are
| good, especially those in which pin poin
dots of white are very thickly sprinkleC
upon a ground Of light pink or blue.
OF course no colored material will stand
| constant laundering as well as white, anC
for that reason many women contend tina
all white is in the long run the cheapes
thing the small child can wear. A touci
of vivid red is always bright and at
tractive in combination with Irvine color
ecru or white. and this touch is frequentl!
achieved through embroidered dots o
French knots in bright red.