Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1918 — Cotton Clothes for Little Folks [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Cotton Clothes for Little Folks

Show windows have been filled with cotton clothes for little girls that are about as refreshing and pleasing to look at as a spring garden. They start out with the advantage of lovely colors and carry on with the simple lines that belong to little girlhood. The dresses are beautifully designed and the designs carried out with appropriate and exquisite finishing touches, in accessories and in purely decorative details. There are wonderfully fine tones of yellow, which appear to be favorites, and the usual good assortment of blues, light green, rose and huff. Designers like to use white with all these colors in collars, cuffs, pockets and in yokes and set-in pieces. Dotted swiss, set in in short panels, and white pipings are among the new developments in decorations. When yellow, rose and pink are used with white, needle-work in simple stitches and figures, and French knots are done

in black and white. With blue and green dresses touched with white in narrow cluny edgings or pipings, gayer colors are used, like rose and green, in prim little flower forms. Dutch blue and the Copenhagen and delft shades look well with narrow edgings of cluny lace and embellishment of pearl buttons. A dress made in a yellow shade somewhat deeper than maize is shown in the picture. It is of plain gingharp, and no one can hope to improve upon its style for a little miss anywhere from four or five to eleven years old. The skirt is set on Jo the yoke with four plaits at the balk and front, the collar, cuffs and pocket all of white kindergarten cloth, or other substantial weaves and the embroidery is in white and black cofton.