Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1915 — FOLLOW FASHION OF ELDERS [ARTICLE]

FOLLOW FASHION OF ELDERS

Costumes for Bmall Girls Are More or Less a Copy of Those Worn by / the Grownups. Faithful to tradition, the fashions of the nursery and school room are following those of the drawing room, and girls from seven to seventeen are wearing long-waisted dresses with frills or plaits to give the basque or tunic effect. A very soft shade of red, like the wild rose, is popular for their tailormade suits, and with it is worn black headgear in the form of pliable velvetfelt or chenille, black shoes and stockings and black gloves. Military overcoats are desj&ned for little boys and girls, as well as for senior wearers. The collars and belts are distinctive characteristics of the models and on the collate are emblems of gilt or silver braid. When the Russian inspiration is not pressed unduly it Is accountable for some very handsome effects in braiding and finger-width fur trimmings upon open-air suits, and for particularly becoming collar bands, short and upright, or a roll of fur that clings closely round the neck. Pure colors are accepted now. It would seem that everything is to be simple. • So we see a green that is the usually aocepted dye, not olive, lime or pastel* but just-a pure green, and a brown afl honest Both are called Russian, and the brown is the accepted tint of the leather that smells so sweet.