Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 243, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1915 — FALL STYLES FOR CHILDREN [ARTICLE]

FALL STYLES FOR CHILDREN

School Dresses Are Made in Ginghams, Percales, Linens, Ratines and Piques. Children’s wash dresses suitable for school wear are in ginghams, percales, linens, ratines, piques, cordalines and other heavy wash fabrics. Many are in plain colors trimmed with checked, plaid or striped material, while others are of a fancy material trimmed with a plain fabric. Combinations of middy or blouse of plain color with a skirt of or vice versa, are very pretty. ' Colored worsted dresses are also in a great variety of styles in serges, poplins and checked and plaid worsteds. Some are made, in sailor effect, while others have the middy blouse or the new college blouse with smocking. In dressy little frocks combinations of worsted and silk, such as serge, with plaid or check silk, are seen. Corded and plain velvets are combined with satin charmeuse, or fancy plaid, checked or striped silk. Partv dresses of net, crepe, chiffon or lace are often combined with silk. For older girts three-piece suits are popular. They consist of simple little serge or gaberdine dresses with a short, snappy coat in norfolk, Russian or box effect, of the same material. Flat collars are almost universally worn and sleeves are usually set in at the regular armhole, finished off •with a flare cuff, or made in flare effect starting from the elbow. Belts and sashes are usually of self material, or of the same fabric as the collars and cuffs. ;;; -r—Children’s coats are made with a alight flare In the lower section. Some-, a coat is cut in two sections and

joined together at the normal or slightly lower waist line, this joining covered by a belt or sash. A yoke sometimes appears in the back, sometimes in fipnt. Sometimes as many as four pockets appear on a coat, and they are also used on belts. Smocking and hand embroidery trims wee coats, and braids and buttons trim all coats. Krimmer, beaver, otter, seal, mole, chinchilla, squirrel, ermine and coney, as well as velvet in plain colors and novelty stripes And checks, are used for collars, cuffs and other trimmings.