Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1914 — SLIP MAY BE ELABORATE [ARTICLE]

SLIP MAY BE ELABORATE

Dainty Work Altogether Permissible on Garment for the Smallest of the Small. There is but one joy greater than making one’s wedding outfit for the mating with the one man—that of making a layette for the first little one. The materials must be of the softest and finest and the stitches of the smallest. The little everyday slips will, of course, of necessity be rather simple; but it is now permissible to have a rather elaborate dress for baby’s dress-upftime, even though she is the tiniest of the tiny. Some of us. do not approve of much elaboration for children, and so there is, for us who so disapprove, a compromise between elaboration and simplicity—the little smocked garment. The small yoke will be so tiny that but two rows of the smocking will be’ required to form it The neck is cut low and square; not low enough to expose the little chest, but a trifle lower than Collarless. The whole garment is made in one and the yoke defined only by smocking. On the left side is placed a streamered rosette of ribbon. If desired, a row or two of smocking may be put about the bottoms of the sleeves. White thread and not silk should be used for smocking, as silk will yellow and form an unsightly contrast with the white ma-, terlal.