New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-08
81 RECORD OF FASHIONS LATEST Wt1lMS
Trig Costumes for Schoolroom
For Which Peats and Braid and Little Touches of Color
Add Verve and Charm to Simple Fashions-The
Easier These Little Dresses Are to Put on the
More Practical They Will Be and the More
Often Worn by the Busy Child

girl in her teens. In fact. the favored
trimmings for all young girls dresses,
whether on the Norfolk lines or others,
is the narrow braid, bound button holes
and fancy buttons. loops and pipings. II
is in these pipings that the touch Of colo,
can be successfully brought IN. The plaid
silks are an ideal medium for this pur-
pose. They also find an appropriate
place in the Jokes, deep cuffs. belts and
crayats
Vyng with the Norfolk dresses In
popularity are the Russian blouse effects,
which are particularly chic and good
looking on youthful figures. There 10 a
tremendous amount OF style In the per
fectly plain serge dress fashioned on the
Russian lines, even though there may
not be q vestige of trimming. Other mod
els are made with the guimps Of white
lingerie material and trimmings Of braid
and buttons. Here again pipinss and
cravats add tho color note. An especially
pretty Russian dress had several new
features. The skirt, although plain In
the front, had the double box pleat IN the
back. The blouse was trimmed with but
The sleeves were set on TO the long shout
der-lnown by many as the kimono
shoulder-and were slightly gathered into
the deep cuff marked with the buttona
very shallow yoke of the net softeaed
the neck.
The comfortable old MILDLY suit has lost
none OF its popularity. In navy blus
serge, with its usual accompaniment Of
brald. cravat and sleeve emblem, n ID
quite az practical as in linen or duck<
The regulation MILDLY blouse IL likewist
adopted in this heavier material with
successful results The pleated skirt II
generally OF the serge but the skirts OF
duck, pque or linen are sometimes worn
with the serge blouse. The illustration
shows the practically Of the sailor suit
There are lnnumerable little one piece
dresses buttonng either directly down
the center or at the side, which can be
made very effective by a little braid
pipings and buttons. One charming frock
showed a yoke and sleeves Of plaid silk
with distinct red tints which frightened
the sombre blue IN a truly girlish fash
ion. The plaid silk peeped out again In
the pleated fans which had been inserted
I'm the center side seams Of the skirt AZ
the bottom
The chemisettes or vests which are 50
smart this season. can also be adapted
TO these school frocks with good results.
A good looking tobacco brown dress was
enlivened by softly folded vest OF plaid
silk. which extended from the neck, soft
ened by a creamy batiste collar. 10 the
waist line and lost itself under the dark
brown leather belt with motifs OF red.
The sleeves TO all these gowns arc long
Some have the deep cuff. others the regu-
Iation shirt cum. They may set fatty into
tho regulation armhole, or may he az
tached TO the extended shoulder. The
enlarged aruhole is likewise used, Al
though not as universally. They are suf-
fciently rOomv to permit perfect free
dom Of movement.