The Delineator
April, 1911
FOR THE LITTLE CHILD
LACE-TRIMMED DRESSES
AND BRAND LINENS
A NEW ONE-PIECE SLIP
Design 4593, French dress, suggests almost a tailored effect, so clean cut is its outline. It is one of the smartest models for a little girl. The body and sleeve is in one, and the dress is closed the entire length of the back with buttons and buttonholes in a fly. This method of closing the garment is an advantage in laundering the dress.
Materials that make up most effectively are very fine serge, albatross, challis, linen, repp, pique, chambray or poplin. Braiding seems always a most fitting garniture for a child’s dress. The yoke outline and edges may be simply braided and clusters of buttons placed at intervals along the panel front.
For a child of five years, three yards and one-quarter of material twenty-seven inches wide will be required, and two yards of material if thirty-six inches wide. Three-eighths of a yard of contrasting material twenty-seven inches wide will be necessary for back band-yoke, belt and bands.
Design 4593 may be obtained in nine sizes, from two to ten years, price fifteen cents.
One of the simplest styles for a child’s dress is the little French model described in design 4566. The neck may be finished high or low, in a Dutch round style. Although shorter sleeves seem rather more attractive than the longer ones, it is possible to adopt either form in making this little dress. The material that suggests itself, first, for this model, is batiste or any of the soft wash fabrics. Cross-bar is being used a great deal, and for this little frock nothing could be more effective. This material is sheer with a smoothly-finished texture and the bars over the surface have a somewhat decorative quality. Children’s dresses made of this material need very little ornamentation. Simple motifs in vines and buds may be embroidered about the neck.
For a child of five years, two yards and three-quarters of material twenty-seven inches wide will be required, or two yards and three-eighths of material thirty-six inches wide, with one yard and one-quarter of insertion.
Design 4566 may be obtained in five sizes, from two to six years, price fifteen cents.
A dress for small boys is portrayed in design 4542. Dresses like this little model are most essential for a small boy’s comfort, and in order to keep him quite healthy and happy, he must have many changes of practical and seasonable garments. A morning of hard play always makes him ready for tubbing and fresh, crisp clothes by afternoon. Some little people are such vigorous rompers that three suits a day are none too many. In constructing the garment, linen, galatea, pique, poplin, madras or chambray may be utilized. Linen is more appropriate for dressy wear and galatea for hard service. Instead of using contrasting material, the trimming pieces may be hand-scalloped and worked with dots.
For a child three years of age, two yards and one-eighth of material twenty-seven inches wide will be necessary, or one yard and five-eighths of material thirty-six inches wide, with three-eighths of a yard of contrasting material twenty-seven inches wide for belt, collar and overlap.
Design 4542 may be obtained in four sizes, from one to four years, price ten cents.
One of the most charming little frocks for very small children is illustrated in design 4587. This is a tucked dress with a panel front. The neck may be finished high with a little frill or cut low in a Dutch, round style. The shorter sleeves are generally liked for the daintier frocks in a child’s wardrobe, but the full-length style may be adopted in making a more practical dress. Sheer batiste or linen would be especially lovely in this model, the front panel giving an excellent opportunity for a dexterous needle to execute little festoons of sprigs and blossoms over its surface. If a plain material of heavier weight is used the panel front may have its edges scalloped and worked with dots, and the long-waisted body emphasized by a crush sash. Chambray would make up well in this model, and it would not be so expensive as the choicer weaves of linen. Poplin is also used extensively for these little frocks.
For a child three years of age, two yards and three-quarters of material twenty-seven inches wide will be required, or one yard and seven-eighths of material thirty-six inches wide, with three yards and three-eighths of wide edging, and four yards and five-eighths of the narrow edging.
Design 4587 may be obtained in six sizes, from one-half to five years, price ten cents.
The variety in children’s clothes is unusual this season. Design 4561, a one-piece dress, displays still another phase of the peasant lines or body and sleeve in one. The garment is slipped over the head and closed at the sides. The low neck may be either square or round. The most amateurish of home seamstresses should be able to construct this model, which is conspicuous for its simplicity; one imagines that two or three such dresses might be achieved during the gossiping hours at a “porch-party.” Laundresses would exclaim with delight if all small clothes could be adjusted to the ironing-board as handily as this may be. In using a plaid or stripe one selects usually the leading color in that plaid for the plain material forming bands or belt. Leather belts are, however, generally worn. If one appreciates that there is no garniture so charming and appropriate as hand-embroidery, she will introduce it wherever she can, for it will ornament everything this year. Serge, linen, pique, poplin, madras, challis, galatea and chambray are suitable and durable fabrics. Crochet or pearl buttons may be used.
For a child of five years, one yard and seven-eighths of material twenty-seven inches wide will be necessary, or one yard and five-eighths of material thirty-six inches wide, with one-quarter of a yard of contrasting material twenty-seven inches wide for trimming bands.
Design 4561 may be obtained in eight sizes, from one to eight years, price fifteen cents.
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