Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1875 — Misses’ Dresses. [ARTICLE]

Misses’ Dresses.

Mothers have had so nodi diffleufty in finding, appropriate dresses for young girls just in their teens that furnishing houses are now making an extra effort to supply this want. Brown and Quaker grays are the accepted colors for these demoiselltes as well as for their mothers; the fabrics are also the same> de bege and camel’s-hair over silk being made upj or them-in plain colors and in plaids. The basque,sacqueandlong,rcmndover- • skirt, or else a more fanciful apron, aretile features- of girls’ costumes. The pleated waist so becoming to slight figures is also used for them, both for plain and dressy suits. These waists and basques may button behind or before according to fancy. For misses of sixteen years there- are pretty suits of gray camel’s-hair soid at the furnishing houses for $45. The skirt reaches to the ankles, and is trimmed with a shirred- flounce of the material, edged with a hnife-pleating of dark brown silk. The deep apron over j skirt is of plaid gray shades. It is pointed in front, and the plaid is cut bias; the sides are shirred; tho back is very bouffant, and the entire edge is piped with brown* silk. The basque is plaid, with brown silk tabs behind; tile sleeves are plain. Byron collars of the silk used far trimming the dress and inside linen collars of the same youthful shape areworn by young girls. Vegetable ivory buttons of polished gray or brown are used on children** clothes. They are appropriate and substantial.

De bege is a durable fabric for-school-dresses and for second-best suits. Plain fray de bege dresses are made witia asques trimmed with six folds or pleatso£ silk down the front and corded -on theedge. This is moat stylish when brown silk is used, but gray is sometimes, preferred, and sometimes dark blue. Pockets of the silk are set on and trimmed' with vegetable ivory buttons and imitation button-holes. A belt of the de bege i» worn with basques that have pleatedfronts. The apron over-skirt is-veiyr deep in front and is shirred behind; The lower skirt has knife-pleating. Such a dress for a girl of fourteen years costa thirty-seven dollars. Another fashion for girls from fourteen.* years of age down to very small girls iathat of making kilt skirts with- sidepleated basques. These are made of plain or plaid de bege and are trimmed with gros grain bows of some deep, color prevailing in the plaid. They cost from fifteen to thirty-ive dollars a suit. Sailor blouse-waists, with a kilt skirt of the same plaid wool fabrics, are also worn by girls from two to twelve years old. Blue, gray and' brown plaids are used foe these pretty little suits, and the front has a row of longlooped bows of gros grain ribbon. They have turned-down sailor collar* corded with silk, cuffs with three buttons set in • a row, and belts of the materiahfasteaed by a rosette. Price $5.50 to sl2.

More dressy suits for girls from eight to sixteen years of age are made, of mlk, partly plain and partly plaid. F<* instance, the lower skirt and sleeves are. of solid blue silk, while the basque and. upper skirt are of blue and white plakL. Blue, brown and gray are the leading colors for such suits, and sometimes, there are lines or bars of brighter color introduced. A skirt of very dark brown' silk has a plaid shirred over-skirt nuukv up of ecru, blue and brown. Thebascpfr is of plaid, and the sleeves .are plain, brown. A single shirred, flounce seven, or eight inches deep, edged with a very, narrow frill of knife-pleating, is the, trimming most used for the lower skirt, of young girls’ dresses. Two rows of knife-pleating, each about four inches deep, are also seen. The basques of' their most dressy suits are in the French shapes, with very long sides, or else?they are shorten behind than' before. The Louisine silks, lightly twilled or-else basket-woven, are liked.for these youthful dresseas they form only parts o® suite, as they need solid color, to tone-dqwna their brightness. Linen suits for the summer are of gray or brown, undressed liken. They. are. usually in three pieces—basque* overskirt and walking skirt—and are trimmed' with pleatings and bias bands off the same. The French basque and thee looser French sacque are made up of thin linen;, with the sacqne a side-pleated waisfc of white muslin is xor% Aik some houses these gmy linen, suits- are elaborately braided, with either brown, blue or black. They • cost from $6 to 12. For very small children grey linens are made up.with kil:t skirts re sailor blouses. A novelty for little girV dresses, is thick linen batisie, huff, blue or plait, richly wrought wilh English embroidery in white. Some of these dresses have the Httle skirt covered with embroidery; the body is then an intent’s waist « blouse, with belt; collar* and long sleeves. Scotch gingham, French cambric and domestic percales, chosen for girls? everyday dresses, are in broken plaids, checks and stripes. They aresimply made, and trimmed with bias bandaof the material. Many of those soft-finished percales resemble silk, so nearly as almost to defy detection* and when made up. with nice attention So details-are very attractive. Dark blsa is very popular in these gingham dresses, and those with mingled, blue asd rose axe gay and youthfullooking The wraps foe misses and children are jaunty jackets of gray, bine, or brown cloth of very light quality and cotor. They are made with French backs that are quite short, and with longer, Arose, single-breasted fronts. The collars are Byron shape, and the sleeves are closely cut, with pleated, silk on the wrists. Dark bine and black jackets are also shown .. The new water proof cloaks for girls are Ulsters, with a belt In the hack, several pockets, double-breasted fronts buttoned their full length like a redingote, and a folded pointed hood large qnough to be of service. They are maae of light English waterproof, and grav fa the popular color. They should neloWf enough to cover the entire drees. Prwf $lB for large sizes.—Harper’* Borer,