Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1876 — Children's Fashions. [ARTICLE]

Children's Fashions.

Little girls, from six to ten, wear hats which tarn down all round and up in the hack. The flowers and bows are placed on top. Brown, white, and White and navy blue combined, are the favorite colors. Older girls wear turbans; and especially the Derby; these have scarfs of soft twilled silk In Madras colors, or plain colors, and a stiff wing on one side. Sailor hats are of dark bine straw, the brim turned up all round. For little boys these sailor nata are more like those worn by Portuguese sailors; the magic words “Invincible,” or “ Serapls,” In gilt letters on the front, give them a thoroughly nautical appearance. Scotch caps, in blue straw, are also very novel: these have the thistle in oxidized silver in front. Children’s dresses are still worn kilted; in plaids the blouse shape is a special favorite for boys and girls of five or six. It is sometimes made double breasted, and is confined at the waist by a scarf of soft woolen material, the color of some stripe in the plaid. Often the edges of the blouse are cut in squares and bound. The very plainest methods for making up children’s garmenta.prevail, simplicity in trimming being seen in all the samples sent from Europe. The favorite style of street garment for little girls is of gray cloth, with gabrielle front, sacque back and gilt plaitings set in at the waist; a broad sash starting from the side seams ties loosely at the back just above the kilt plaitings. Variations of this, in which embroidered bands or silk galloons define tabs and pockets on the front of the dress, are found in all the children’s dress departments. Little boys wear English walking jackets over their kilted suits; these have galloons of worsted or silk as binding, ana handsome oxidized buttons. Wide embroidered bands come expressly for babies’ dresses; these are also to be found in ecru linens, as well as white materials. Sashes are brocaded in satin on silk, Ivy-leaves, convolvulus flowers and shells being the newest patterns. Continental sashes in red, white and blue ribbons with fringed ends are also sold for children.— I\T. i. Evening Poet.