The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-19
Tub Frocks All the Year Round in Warm Houses
Velvet Makes the Prettiest Dress-Up Coat and
Bonnet Wee Scotch Lassies in Plaids- Silk
andWool Lansdow for DressyFrocks

dren's sewing, and take a deal of
pleasure in planning and contriving
the. little garments. Such a mother
should carefully consider current
styles. for fashions are as decided
and as changeable=in children's wear
as in toggery for grown folks, and
the little froek hopelessly behind the
style is not attractive even if ex-
quisitely made and of finest material.
A day should be spent first, looking
about the shops, studying styles and
making mental notes of what is new
and smart. The favored fabrics for
children's wear may be ascertained,
the correct length of skirts and waist
lines; the way sashes are tied; what
sort of trimmings are used-and how
they are used; and the proper kinds
of footwear and headgear.
Another day will be spent in laying
in materials; bolts of lace; yards of
braid; pretty remnants of machine
embroidery broad ribbons for sashes
and rosettes, and all the little sewing
room needs which may be procured
so easily from a list at the notion
counter. but which are so tiresome
to provide separately when over
looked. Given a seamstress of ordi-
nary skill to run up seams on the sew
ing machine, make buttonholes and
otherwise assume the burdensome
part of the work; and two or three
good paper patterns; a weeks work
in the sewing room should satisfac-
torily finish UP the children's ward
robe. for good" for better and for
best"
Coats Should BE Bought Ready-Made.
The out door togs should be pur-
chased ready made. 1t is impossible
to achieve--in the home sewing
room-the effects of natty smartness
combined with simplicity of cut, OBJ
tainable in tailored garments of even
inexpensive character. If moder-
ately priced coat is purchased. how
ever, all the more care should be
given to the selection of hat and boots
for these accessories If correct in
style and spic and span in condition
will carry off almost anything in the
coat line.
Buttoned boots are considered cor
rect for street wear and the normal
child will require at least three pairs;
one pair of patent leather boots with
cloth or dull kid tops for Sundays
and "best" wear and two interchange
able pairs of school or play boots of
dull calf with buttoned tops and
rather stout welted soles. Rubbers
should be purchased at the time boots
are selected, and the child's name
should be written on tape with in
delible ink and pastel inside each
rubber--to avoid loss at school or
kindergarten. Tan calf buttoned
boots may be provided for school and
play wear if they are preferred, but
for wear with elaborate garb black
boots are the only correct style in
winter.
If the child is dressed entirely in
white-white coat, hat, furs and frock,
white buttoned buckskin boots and
white stockings are permissible; but
there is strong favor this season
for black boots with all street cos
tunes, white stockings being worn
with such boots If desired. In the
house buttoned strap slippers may ac-
company pretty frocks. and the child
who dwells in a home heated by steam
to summery temperature, may wear
short socks all winter long. For the
street, of course, long stockings will
be substituted, or leggings donned-
unless the little one is always smoth-
cred under fur robes in a heated
| limousine.