The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-04
SMALL GIRL S READY MADE
DRESSES ARE CHEAP
Stylish Models in Wash Materials
Can be Purchased for 81
and $3.50.

Dresses for small girls are 20 pretty
land inexpensive this season that IL
seems a waste of time for mothers TO
make them at home.
Indeed, It is astonishing what pretty
frocks can be bought for II.
For instance, a guimpc dress OF
plain percaie, material that always
launders, in one piece model. TRIM
med In Russian effect an,l closing
down the back, has skirt pleated
into the belt.
The low cut waist and the white
arm holes are trimmed Win bias
band of plaid, which extends down tho
left side over the belt to the hem OF
the skirt. The belt Is of the pcrcale,
agreeably relieved by white piping
This is an excellent model for warm
weather.
Another style dress at a dollar Is OF
chambray. IN pink, blue or tan, with
pleated skirt, the neck cut in round
Dutch edged with a band piped with
white. which extends to the belt down
the left side of the waist. The sleeves
are long and finished with cuffs piped
with white. For school or morning
wear this Is an exceedingly good mo-
del. Dresses at the price. named Will
fit girls from six to fourteen years of
age.
One of the cmartest models in the
whole collection of girls dresses
shown in one shop was marked at
sl.75.
1t was in black and white checked
gfngham. and strictly tailored. The
long waist was made with two box
y eats coming from shouldnr- belt
front closing was simulated by
r.eans OF white piping and three
large buttons. The neck was finished
WITH Dutch collar faced with white
pique and pointed cuffs to match con-
fined the three-Quarter length full,
sleeves.
The skirt was laced in box pes ts
all around and taken into belt piped
with white.
The models described by no means
included all those offered at prices
from one to two dollars. A very pret-
~ Russian dress model for afternoons
that would fit girls from six to twelve
years Of age was fashioned from repp
In tan, pink, blue or white.
II was made with three box pieats
PACK and front from shoulder to hem,
the pleats freed at the waist line to
provide fullness for the skirt.
Between the pleats the plain mate
rial was embroidered from neex 70
belt, giving the effect of an embroid-
cred waist crossed by box pleats. The
belt also was embroidered, ana So
We're the cuffs trimming the full
length sleeves. This model was mark
ed at s3.75.
L "A DAINTY but inexpensive froek that
should launder neatly was made in
sizes Tor girls from six to fourteen
years OF age 1t was of crossbar lawn
developed on tailored lines. Tue skirt
was pleated into a novel belt Of The
material finely tucked. the tuckinx
going around the waist instead of the
usual up and down effect The little
tucks appeared again upon the waist
betwee ndeepr tucks which reached
from shoulder to belt. The neck WIS
cut In Dutch square and edged with
embroidery mitred at the corners in
lie nat, and the three-Quarter length
sleeves were finished with cuffs of the
embroidery.
This was neat design, and while
II might appear plain from the above
description the crossbar fabric p-c-
vents too plain an effect
FOR afternoon wear in warm veg
ther such little dress would be ex-
eeealhsiy comfortable. 1t can be
bought for s1.s5.
Dresses that girls will wear for best
or for graduation from grammar
scnool are made from embroidered
hounclngs In charming designs and at
prices correspondingly low.
One model at $3.50 has "a full gath
cred skirt of the fiouncing, white the
waist is made with a yoke of insar-
ton lace supporting a lower portion
OF waist fashioned from the fiouncinr
( the border being first edged with lace.
then arranged to overlay the yoke.
An embroidered motif of .embroid-
n Ion
the chin. The sleeves are threc.cu1r-
ter length and are trimmed with laea
ana insertion. A sash OF soft r;bbou
completes this pretty frock.
ELIZA BETH LEE.