Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1916 — FOR JUVENILE WEAR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOR JUVENILE WEAR.

New Fabricsand Styles Have Been Introduced. Brown Gabardine Bids Fair to Be Popular This Spring.

As an accentuation of the change that has taken place in juvenile clothes, there is a new frock advanced as the most correct model for spring; it is made of brown gaberdine embroidered in yellow, with a yellow satin blouse. The use of this fabric and this color Is unusual in children's clothes, and it shows that we are tending away from the conventional theories of what should be worn and dipping into the region of the unknown. It is quite true that the tiniest youngsters have worn woolen clothes when no attempt was made for fashion and only comfort and health were considered ; but whenever there was even the smallest altar to fashion raised in the sewing room, small children were kept to washable materials. Another new frock for children that is quite different from the ordinary and shows the new movement toward originality, has a tight-fitting bodice of blue velvet with a blue-and-white checked taffeta skirt. Ope of the most startling house gowns that has been invented for children which was worn as a page costume at a smart wedding, had a skirt built of many ruffles of white silk net, topped by a short, white satin bodice with

slight shoulder straps of tulle. The gown was an exact replica of the most fashionable frock that is being worn by young women of twenty, and yet, the interesting fact about it was that the dress was definitely youthful. In addition to a few pink rosebuds, a pair of flesh pink socks and heelless, white satin slippers with ankle straps took all the sophistication away from the frock. The milliners have kept up with the dressmakers in devising new kinds of things for children, and one of the new straw hats to be exploited in the spring has a tulle crown through which the hair shows. As a rule, quantities of tulle are, not used in juvenile hats, although miles of it have been employed everywhere else. The fashion for colored worsted flowers has crept into small hats, but many of the critics have regarded it as more suitable there than any where else. Of course, the present fashion for smocking spreads over into young- , ster’s clothes, and the .brilliant smocks of colored satin and crepe de chine have been imitated in small frocks. Entire frocks of pale yellow or blue-and-rose-colored china silk'are smocked at the shoulders, the wrists and the hips, the letter holding the fullness into the figure and obviating the necessity of a belt. Summer frocks of fine muslin or organdie will have smocking of cambric thread with no other ornamentation used but a bit of lace at the wrists and neck. (Copyright, 1916, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)

Coat of Blue Serge, Cape and Belt Trimmed With Gold Braid.