Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-03
Batist@ Frocks for Little Girls

, made with Il high waist line and a round
yoke that drops off the shoulders with
very small puff sleeves that remind one
of the delightful children on Lawrence's
cauvases or some old daguerreotype
These dresses are, many of them, made
uD with combination of Irish lace and
hand embroidery.
The long wasted dresses have sashes
that are usually run through wide en-
hroidered insertion. One almost never
sees the sash tied straight around. 1t
is usually worked in and out through
the fabric of the frock.
Colored Linen Frocks.
Colored linen-pink. blue. green and
yellow-is seen in some of the new
frocks of more substantial sort. The
newest development of these frocks is in
the separate overlapping waist portion
a sort of sleeveless holero that slips on
over the skirt which is fastened to
lining body which also holds the sleeves.
Often in these frocks the sleeves and
collars are made of white muslin or linen.
Buttons of white crochet are the most
acceptable trimmings for this sort of
frock
Many of the new lingerie dresses are
finished around the hem with a trim
ming of lace-sometimes narrow and
sometimes several inches wide. But ism
there something prettier. daintier, III
better taste about the plain hem? Don't
you truly think that the simplicity of
a straight line around the bottom of the
frock is more suitable for the little girl
A row of Irish lace insertion at the head
of the hem is much more effective than
a row of edging at the bottom.
There is an unusually large variety OF
little girls coats this year And OF
them all there is nothing prettier than
the coats of silk popln. either plain or
in MORE finish. The best trimming Tor
these coats is one that has recently been
shown by a speciality shop for children.
1t is simple and easily washed-wide col
lars and cuffs of plain white batiste
edged with inch-wide valenciennes lace.
The New Little Boy.
1t seems, to see the clothes that are
built for little boys to wear nowadays
that a new order of little boys must
have come into existence. A few wears
ago we had the Buster Brown young
ster, with his full, easy-to-wear kn1ck-
erbockers. his loose, long wasted coat
that covered all discrepancies at the
waist line. the large belt that could
never get out of place and the collar
that was. if properly fitting, as comfortt-
able as no collar at all. But now for
the last six months fashion has banished
the rollicking lad with the Buster Brown
suit and in his place We have very
proper lad with straight up and down
breeches-that brook no bending over.
They are buttoned up high and tight
on the waist and the waist is buttoned
within an inch of the lads skin across
the chest. A Straightforward standup
collar fits at the neck and the sleeves
are as long and straight as are the
breeches Sometimes these tight little
suits are developed in pink and white.
sometimese in blue and white and some
times in all white. Cotton poplin seems
to be the favorite material chosen. One
variety of the new suit developed IN
pure white showed a two-inch cotton
pleating at the cuffs and around the
neck. It would be model lad. indeed
who could endure the discomfort of stiff
frilling at his hands and neck. but pre-
sumably the model little boy has come
into fashion.