. Babyhood . BAB YHOOD. 35 thoroughly boyish -looking dress, and it caneasily be cut after a well-fitting under-waistpattern. A New Style of Bib. Babys bib is usually given to running up un-der the chin, and a sensible manner of obviat-ing this trick isplainly shown inthe accompany-ing picture. Anyold bib may be soarranged by add-ing the band atthe bottom, whichcloses in the backby means of abutton and but-ton-hole or tying-strings. The oneabove illustratedis made of pique, decorated with fancy stitchesand edged with linen The Gertrude Baby Suit. For the information of new readers of BA
. Babyhood . BAB YHOOD. 35 thoroughly boyish -looking dress, and it caneasily be cut after a well-fitting under-waistpattern. A New Style of Bib. Babys bib is usually given to running up un-der the chin, and a sensible manner of obviat-ing this trick isplainly shown inthe accompany-ing picture. Anyold bib may be soarranged by add-ing the band atthe bottom, whichcloses in the backby means of abutton and but-ton-hole or tying-strings. The oneabove illustratedis made of pique, decorated with fancy stitchesand edged with linen The Gertrude Baby Suit. For the information of new readers of BABY-HOOD it should be stated that the Gertrude suitis a reform method of clothing for babies duringtheir first few months of life, and does not in-terfere with the ordinary outside dress or slip, insuch styles as taste may dictate, being a clothing-suit rather than a dress-suit. It was fullydescribed, with pattern outlines, in BABYHOODNo. 19. The comments and queries printed below areselected from a large number of letters which wehave received on this subject, and are fairly re-presentative of all. (It will probably be need-less for us to print further discussions on thesubject.) The various questions—or the mostimportant ones—raised resolve themselves intothese: 1. Can no improvement be made in the materialfor the underskirt ? (In the original lecture by , the designer of the suit, it was statedthat Canton flannel is the best we have at pre-sent.) 2. Isthere no difference to be made in the suit onaccount
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