Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1915 — Practical Model for the Schoolgirl [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Practical Model for the Schoolgirl

Cotton fabricd are wonderfully diversified in weave and coloring this year. Any sort of fabric, from the sheerest laces to those resembling corduroy in surface and weight, may be had in cotton, and therefore its usefulness Is increased. But the standard weaves are unaffected by the new ones, so far, when it comes to quantities used. Ginghams, Chambrays, dimities and lawns make up the bulk of wearing apparel for children. Ginghams and chambrays, in everyday wear for children, deserve all their popularity. The ever-present plaids and stripes have been most tastefully wrought out. They seem to have lent some inspiration to those who design dresses for the schoolgirl. The plain colors are liked for little girls and boys alike, and many combinations are notably good in which plain colors are used to decorate the plaids or stripes, or this is reversed and the body of the garment is of the plain fabric with the trimming of the figured. In the striped patterns the management of the stripes is cleverly contrived to make trimming effects, so that the garment is all of one kind of goods.

A very excellent model in striped gingham, trimmed with a plain color, is shown in the - dress for the little miss, which appears here. It is a twopiece frock, very plain and easy to launder. The long-walsted bodice fastens down the front under a plait made of the gingham with stripes running crosswise. The skirt is laid in a shallow double box plait at the front and back and hemmed with a four-inch hem.

The sleeves are three-quarter length, finished with turnback cuffs of plain chambray. This is decorated with a narrow flat braid in white. There is a small sailor collar to match and a narrow band at each side of the waist of the plain chambray. Instead of a girdle there is a set-on piece of the chambray cut in two points at the front and straight across the back. This is furnished with two very practical little pockets. The dress fastens with small buttons and buttonholes set on under the front plait. But flat pearl buttons, in groups of three, make the neatest of finishing touches, placed on the front of the plait.