Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1915 — New Models in Little Girls’ Dresses [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

New Models in Little Girls’ Dresses

For little lads and lassies of six years, or under, suits and dresses for ordinary wear, are made of cotton or linen materials, the year round. This is in accordance with the increasing favor for wash fabrics in all apparel, which grows, along with the advance in cleanliness and knowledge of sanitation, throughout the country. In the spring the young people are provided with light-weight cotton or linen clothing, and in the fall the heavy weaves are relied upon to furnish suits and dresses.

This adoption of wash dresses has caused the numerous aprons formerly needed to disappear from the little girl’s wardrobe and has eliminated a lot of extra work. Very thick and heavy coats, leggings and other outer garments are provided for the little one’s outdoor wear, but for indoors the mother guards against having her children too heavily clothed for comfort in the schoolroom or home kept sufficiently warm.' - Designs for wash dresses are only successful when they allow easy laundering. Two new and pretty models are shown here made of heavy linen or cotton rep, which comes in many attractive and stable colors. At the right, a dress is shown in dark blue linen with pialn collar and cuffs in white. A full-front panel is smocked (with white thread) at each side of the front opening. It fastens with small, fiat pearl buttons and loops of fine cord.

The dress hangs straight from the shoulders and is finished with a threeinch hem. The sleeves are straight and gathered into the cuffs which turn back. They are cut three-quarter length. At the left a dress in brown rep is shown with collar, cuffs and pockets lo white linen. There is a belt which can be detached when the dress is

laundered. It fastens with buttonholes over small, flat, bone buttons, which are sewed to the dress. Like nearly all the new models this dress fastens down the front with little buttons and loops. The pockets are machinestitched to the dress and are practical. The same model is madfe in many color contrasts —pink pockets, collar and cuffs on a s white dress, tan on brown, blue on tan, etc. Old-fashioned needlework, In decorative stitches, is an elegance which those who know how, may add to children’s dresses. 'Nothing is prettier or more appropriate. Pockets are quite the vogue and are an item of much interest and pleasure to the small people who possess them.