Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1911 — THE BOUDOIR DAME FASHIONS DIARY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE BOUDOIR DAME FASHIONS DIARY

COLORS FOR SPRING

EDICT OF FASHION IN CHILDREN’S .' GARMENTS. Should B® Combined With White to Have the Proper Effect—Long Bodice and Bkirt Still - Favored. Children’s fashions all have an especial charm when madto up in spring materials, and this year a look of ununusual novelty is added to this blitheness. Color put on white is lmmense!y in vogue, bands, yokes and cuffs in the most vivid hues showing on snowy tittle frocks and aprons. This color note with white may take the form "of a very effective if simple embroidery

on a fine frock of marquisette, which texture washes like a t rag, and very often the needlework in heavy blocks wHI contain half a dozen rich colors. A deep red, blue of the most Intense sort, black, orange, mahogany and green are tints that appear in this needlework, which, whether haqd or machine made, is called Bulgarian embroidery. Of course the small frocks so treated need to be dry-cleaned as the vivid trimming used cannot be eounted on to stand the rigors of the washtub. - ’ Nevertheless, many a little lawn and linen frock may show needlework in one or three of these rich colors, tnd if the garment comes from a first elass place—perhaps a shop that makes a specialty of juvqnile wear— It is pretty likely to be warranted as washable. With the bordered muslins, lawns, swisses and challies, —for challle is included among the wash materials —the contrasting banding wHI be used with charming effect at the bottom of little skirts, about the cut-out neck and at the edge of sleeveß. All white frocks are seen in plenty and surely nothing could be sweeter for very young children, but when the child haß passed five a touch of color is newer, and it is apt to appear if only in the form of ribbon knots and sashes. As to design, the garments of the girl of seven, perhaps, are pretty apt to show Borne of the lines of her mamma's frocks, for kimono cuts are used for bodices and there are many little one-piece gowns almost identical in line with those for grown-ups. The difference comes in an easy width of the skirt, in a decolletage of the neck and in very short sleeves, all raiment distinctly for summer wear showing these last points.

Models for the tinier children have the babyish features suited to pudgy Infantile figures, and with the dressbp wash frock it is pretty much the rage to have the child look as much tike a French doll as possible. The long bodice and skirt—that is no more than a tiny flounce with, edge somelimes falling short of the child’s knees —still comprise the favored model, but instead of the distinct sleeve the bodice portion of the smart garment is cut in one with these details. In fact, it is well nigh impossible to escape the kimono influence, and allbough it may be run in the ground after awhile for the moment it is all powerful. Among the accessories for little girls are delightful aprons, which, since they are skirt length, may be used on a hot day in the house or country without a frock. These graceful and important details may be of the plainest linens or ginghams, but mothers who like the neatness and coquetry of the apron, often turn out cunning little affairs of dotted swiss with lace edges for wear with quite fine frocks. The "cook’s apron” Is the next style, the rear bands fastening at the shoulders being an exact imitation of some

of the apron cuts used by chefs. The little quantity of goods needed for this apron should recommend it to mothers who like their children to present a neat appearance at home and who cannot afford too many changes of frocks. Then quite a gay and childish look can be given the small garment with the use of a colored cotton with small Mother Goose figures for the banding, one such being employed in this case fifk a brown linen.