Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1913 — FOR THE LITTLE ONES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOR THE LITTLE ONES

FASHION’S DICTATES OF THE SEASON PERMIT DISPLAY. * Accordion-Pleated Crepe de Chine Model, Shown Here, Is One of the Prettiest That Has Been Evolved This Year. This is an age when elaborate and expensive clothes are not only permissible but essential to the small child who is dressed according to fashion’s word. To be sure, play clothes and street frocks are simple,-even If they are expensive, but afternoon clothes are not only expensive—they are elaborate as well. The frock illustrated is one of the charming accordion-pleated crepe de chine models made for little girls. The dress is simple enough in outline, but the yoke is of real baby Irish lace, and the crepe de chine, to be durable and yet soft and thin, must be expensive. Some of the frocks for very little girls, like the one described, have high waist lines, but many of them have the belt fastened well below the knees. Ribbon belts are almost exclusively used for little girls. Sometimes the crushed and folded ribbon is fastened about the frock with invisible stitches, sometimes it is run through embroid-. ered beading, sometimes through buttonholed slits in the skirt of the frack. Hand tucking and hand embroidery are combined with expensive lace to make children’® clothes elaborate. One lovely frock shows a band, of tiny pink

roses embroidered just above the hem of the fine lawn skirt, another band about the neck, and others about the edge of the elbow sleeves. Fine val lace is set in belotv the embroidery on the waist in elaborate design, and the skirt is finished with hemstitching. Shepherd checks in black and white wool are popular for street frocks for small girls. These frocks are simply made, sometimes in Norfolk coat style, with black patent leather belts and flat linen collars, sometimes in Russian blouse style with collars of Irish lace. . Leather handbags for children are sold to match any conceivable colored frock. They are carefully made of good leather and are simpler as well as smaller than full-sized bags. Handkerchief linen is used for some of the daintiest of the small girls’ frocks. Fine India and linon lawn are also used. Marquisette and voile are used, too, and prove serviceable as well as dainty. It should be made up rather simply, as it is itself decorative, and rather heavy for children. It is especially pretty for children if It is trimmed only with heavy cluny lace. Tucks, too„ look well in voile, and a model child’s frock of the material is made with three tucks about an inch and a half deep running around the skirt just above the three-inch hem. They are machine stitched.