MAKING INFANTS' CLOTHES
very lovely ones may be made of crepe de chine or silk with a thinner silk lining. Eiderdown bound with ribbon is also much used for kimonos in the wintry season.
Dresses are made of lawn, batiste or nainsook. The little coats are made of eiderdown, cashmere, silk and sometimes white broadcloth.
Dainty caps are of lawn, nainsook and often entirely of wide embroidery and also of silk embroidered in silk, of cashmere and crepe de chine, eiderdown and a lovely fleecy wool.
Trimmings Suitable For Infants' Clothes: Keep the little morning dresses simply trimmed—just tucks or a touch of embroidery. Little simulated yokes by means of fine beading, the same beading used at the tiny wrists and necks, offer another pretty way of ornamenting an infant's frock.
For more elaborate frocks there are lace edges with lace insertions put on with fine headings and little touches of French handwork. Most of the decoration is around the tiny shoulders, although some of the hems are put on with beading and some are embroidered.
For the little sacks the edges are embroidered in rose or blue and the edges
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