Summer dress fabrics

Usage examples of ginghams.

The women washed dresses, pink ginghams and flowered cottons, and they hung them in the sun and stretched the cloth to smooth it.

Like certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they show finely in their first newness, but cannot stand the sun and rain, and assume a very sober aspect after washing-day.

These rags in bales, of all hues and qualities, the lowest condition to which cotton and linen descend, the final result of dress—of patterns which are now no longer cried up, unless it be in Milwaukee, as those splendid articles, English, French, or American prints, ginghams, muslins, etc.

I listen to the finches chirp and sing, working on my quilts which until recently brought me no public acclaim, but which were attractive combinations of calicos and ginghams and made-in-U.

There were big, rawboned men in the Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes and women in fresh-washed ginghams and sunbonnets.