New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-16
Comfortable Clothes.
In Selecting the Child's
Wardrobe That Considera-
ton Should Be
Uppermost.
S(D RESS your children comfort
ably" is plea addressed

ably" is plea addressed
to every mother. At no
other time, perhaps, is the absolute
comfort and freedom of the child in
its relation to its clothes more i'm
portant than when it is romping about.
Usually the first consideration of the
modern child's wardrobe is its design
ing, but of greater Importance is COM
fort, for upon ease and freedom de-
Ponds the tranquility of the child.
When freed from the oldtime dis
comfort of tight bands, starched col
lars and cuffs, bunchy underwear and
many underskirts, the child is able to
lose itself in play, and thus wholly for
get its clothes. In this century of the
child no phase of its development,
moral or physical, is overlooked. and
in the adoption of the ssner things in
dress it is but natural that children's
garments should record a strong bet
tering influence as well. Simplicity Of
construction and scantiness of material
60 hand in hand with what is consid-
cred best for the child. This is both
pleasing to the mother and the laun-
dress, for it saves time in dressing and
labor in laundering.
Front Buttoned Garments Convenient.
"Why button the children's clothes
down the back" is a question that has
confronted many designers who have
been endeavoring to make clothes that
will help teach the child to dress itself.
Up to the time it reaches its teens a
child has no difficult lines or form to
dress, so why should it matter where
its undergarments are fastened? It il
a very simple thing to make little
underwaists, drawers and petticoats to
fasten in the front, and how much more
practical such garments are only
mothers who adopt this method can
tell.
Many changes have taken place in
children's underclothes. owing to the
straight dresses and closely fitted eff
fects that arc now being adopted both
for the child in arms as well as the
older one. The new fashions have had
their effect in both the cut of the vari-
Gus garments and the number worn.
Children are wearing fewer garments
than they ever did, but those that they
do wear are more carefully chosen than
heretofore.
Boomers Replacing Petticoats.
For girls between the ages of four to
perhaps twelve boomers are replacing
petticoats for morning dresses, made
always Of the same color as the dress
and, if possible, Of the same material.
To-day it is more noticeable than
ever how many dresses fasten down
the front or side-front. This enables
the child to dress herself. The dress
shown in the illustration opens at the
side-front and hangs loosely from the
shoulders, barely touching the child
and adhering to the straight up and
down effect much in evidence in
yomen's clothes. 1t is made of green
corduroy, with draped plain velvet
sash placed below the natural waist
line. The set-in sleeves are very COM
Portable, indeed. 1t is most practica!
costume of a style that is most becom-
ing to most little girls between the
ages of eight and twelve. Navy blue,
brown, black or green may be chosen,
according to the coloring of the child.
Basques for Children in Evidence.
Every season it is more noticeable
that children's clothes arc being made
after the style of their older sisters
This autumn the basque dresses are
being reproduced in miniature to nj
girls of from twelve TO sixteen. In
fact. the basque is what the children
have been wearing for some time past
and while il perhaps has not been rec
oenized in the sailor blouses and long
wasted dresses it has prevailed just
the same. The models of this season
are a little more fitted. perhaps, but
otherwise they are not changed to any
great extent.