Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1911 — TRIFLES OF THE WARDROBE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TRIFLES OF THE WARDROBE

MODES FOR CHILDREN SPRING GARMENTS FOR YOUNG GIRLS ALREADY SHOWN. Tendency Is Toward Full Ungored Skirts, and Collarless Neck Still Rules—Pretty Little Frock of Gingham or Finer Material. “Dear me, how soon spring comes!” the shopper thinks as she goes down the street these last days, for there already are the signs in the windows —yards and yards of dainty wash fabrics, with all their various trimmings, in enchanting spring colors. How the window dressers get the unoat fabrics to look so beautiful —to look so much like flowers and little children—is a mystery to the passerby. But there is everything folded over and puffed out and twisted this way and that in’ just the right manner. And when you inquire about prices the obliging shopman tells you, and truthfully, that everything will be dearer by and by, and that many of the lovely patterns now seen will not be reproduced. Really tiny children are in clover, ;for their frocks are the simplest, long‘bodied affairs, or else Mother Hubbard slips that hang from the shoulders, and at most a pretty yoke or aklrt frill film these, and as quantity in wash things is now much more considered than quality the very modesty of the baby girl clothes makes It pos* sible to have a greater number. of things. The Illustration shows a smart little frock that' might be developed from two kinds of gingham or be a much finer affair in a little silk and wool, .jta the present instance the frock is of a figured chaliie trimmed with plain Silk, and the way the bands are buttoned down over the trimming is a new and smart idea. In the way of color combinations for wash materials the main part of this dress might be made of a blue or pink ehambray and the trimming part of black and white. Or one part of the dress could be in a plain cotton and the trimming of a figured or striped oottnn in the same color. Again, the model is admirably suited to a pretty childish silk, and with this velvet ribbon could be used for the three _hgnds back and front, and chiffon for theSfcirt border* bust band, sleeve edge collar band. In 'fact, there are~tfny number of ways of varying the design, the only restriction being that any figured goods must show a small and childish pattern. For a practical dress, too, the Belt

would be of the goods and the un|dersleeves of plain lawn or a thin silk. In the way of coats, I would advise the mother who likes the dollquafUy for her baby daughter’s dress to get a pale blue or pink linen or pique for her baby’s summer coat and trim it with a coarse white lace. These deli-cately-tinted wraps, made in the usual sack shape, though with shawl revers that come to the waist, will be very smart, and for the hat the coat material may be used with the head-

piece made after the style of the usual little wash hats with puffed crowns buttoned on to a plain brim. Spring millinery Is shown at this time for children, but the weather is far too unsettled for it to be advisable, unless the hat la of silk and very nearly as warm as the winter one. Many silk hats In the basket and bowl shapes liked for young fry are made of a dark silk or satin, with a wide band, finished at the side with a square bow, of a light, embroidery, r