Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-07-27

81 u h frocks this summer. Rufnes
are responsible for this. 1t is rune
year, If ever there was one, and when
rufies attack grown-up frocks, they
break out in a very fever on small at
tire. Ruffles, ruffles and ruffles has
the party frock for little girl. these
DAYS, many gay ruffles on the skirt
clear to the sash-line; and more ruff
fes on the waist, around neck and
sleeve and sometimes running across
back and front above the sash-line.
When developed in organdie or IN
lowered lawn. these little frocks are
especially dainty and feminine. Ruff
Aes. a parasol, and a big sashbow-
what more could pretty little malo
demand 10 be irresistible?
In striking contrast to the frilled
organdie frocks are straight-up- and
down frocks of pique and linen with
belt far below the natural waistline
and little skirts flaring out below, so
short that they reveal the knee. wee
girls of five to seven wear their petit
coats almost grotesquely short. and
the same very abbreviated skirts are
often noted on lanky little girls OF
seven to ten-when mammas wish to
keep them as juvenile as possible. Az
seven, the small girls frocks should
touch her knee; at eleven they should
drop lust over It; at thirteen or four
teen they should he halfway betweer
knee and top Of buttoned boot; at six
teen-or even AT fifteen II the girl Il
tall and well-grown. skirts shoul'
reach the boot-top, This is, Of course
ct present. the adult length.
But to go back to five years. wher
we started:
A New Middyficd Romper.
The romper has still no rival In ma
ternal opinion, as a play garment 10
tiny people. II is so easy to launde
and gives such freedom TO little limb
Girls and boys alike live In rompei
through most of the day in the priv
acy of the homo garden. and one SCI
the romper even at tho beach or O
the grounds of summer hotels OF
less fashionable sort. The midd
romper pictured. though intended Il
hoy or girl specially pleases the sma
boy with Its sailor-like suggestion
the collar and knotted tie. The mod
pictured Is of white galntea with ban'
Of rose pink at collar and belt and
has a smart buttoned band Of the pin
galatea.
For very little girls the smock al
bloomer combination Is cunning. al
practical also, for play hours. T.
smock simply cut on kimona lint
with fullness shocked In across fro
and back, falls about four inch
short Of the knee. full boomers
90 N
are made Of linen or Of colored char
bray with the shocking done In 81
In self tone, A very pretty little smo
OF this sort If of pin-checked gre
and white Bingham with shocking
green silk. A broad -brimmed pl
hat Of burnt straw has a band a
->-aamers OF green ribbon.
For the older girl Of seven to I
or thereabout, there are play dress
also made over boomers, though
latter are not as obvious as in mi
Juvenile models. A beach dress
a girl Of eight Is Of natural colo
linen crash, with loose blouse g
short, circular skirt, the skirt butt
ing all the way down at the front,
the blouse and attaching itself to
blouse by a single stitched scam
stead or Delt. r|ioo" 9ioeNeS
cuffs and wide, black silk necl
knotted under the turned-back col
finish this comfortable play di
which because Of It's simplicity
the combination OF tan linen and bl
silk tie, has much smartness.
stout little girl looks best IN 10
wasted frock with box pleats at II
and back to give length OF line,
she should wear her belt as loose
possible and carefully adjus
neither too high nor too low.
The embroidered pique frock