Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-13

Does your particular memory go
back to the days when to dress boy
child as a Highlander was to prove
yourself In the fashion? The swagger
of the Gordons was not even omitted
from the clothes for small girls. Scotch
bonnets were MS common among chill
dren MS they are now among men.
But ii Is not possible for the war
to leave all forms of dressing free
from its sinister influence.
1t touches the clothes for the young
In gentle way, and the way is not
Objectionable. Middle youth, as 1t Is
expressed at seventeen and younger,
finds the avion of France and Italy
the most picturesque fields from which
to draw fashion here and there.
The oblong cap, the flowing cape
with one end draped over the shoulder,
are neat and attractive fashions to use
up for the summer season. An illu'
sive kind Of Sam Brown belt is be-
coming a bit common, but 1t too finds
an abiding place on the coat of a
slim little suit.
Now, however, that such a big ma,
jority of young women find that public
opinion permits them to wear breeches,
cap and coat for war relief work, they
are less apt to use up the military
ideas In the more feminine costumes.
In children's clothes there Is little
of the war that can be adopted, but
the plaid sashes from Scotland and
Naples and Rome, the short black
coats, the multiple pockets, are evil
dences that war has thrown its shad'
ow downward to the cradle.
Adopting Fashions of Age.
Between the nursery and middle
youth there Is mass of children that
must be dressed well throughout the
hot season, and for these the design
ers have turned out enough fashions
to supply the demand of a continent
of grownups. They smack of sophis-
ticatlon some of them, and are taken
directly from the clothes of their ell
ders.
There Is the surplice bodice. the
Martha Washington collar which re-
sembles handkerchief, the patent
leather belt, the umbrella skirt, and
the short seeves-which, after all, age
has merely pilfered from youth this
spring.
There are still touches of an older
war in the retention of the top hat
and cape coat in two colOrs, which was
adopted from the directoire and the
consulate, after the designers could
not force them upon women with any
degree Of success last winter.
The organdie frocks, which spring
like mushrooms from Bar Harbor TO
the Florida coast this year, are found
to be admirable for youth when it Is
parading- itself in the afternoon.
Grown-Up Fashions in Miniature.
II Is a fact that you cannot fail to
observe, if you have had occasion to
study the recently produced clothes for
little girls that some Of the styles bor-
rowed from-6r, rather, suggested BY
the styles launched this spring for
mammals clothes have done rather
better in the juvenile version than in
! the adult. Whatever may be the fate
of the eton jacket in grown-up cos
tumery, true 1t is that not one woman
In ten can wear 1t to advantage. In
short, the eton jacket style goes very
much better with children than with
their mothers or big sisters. Likewise
the collar that is always part of the
picture with the eton jacket-the
roundabout collar, that seems to make
double chins triple, and hides all the
prettiest curves In the grown womans
neck without concealing any of the
ugly ones. 1t is emlnently becoming
on n little girl; In fact one never
knows what an entirely adorable spot
is to be found at the back of a little
girls neck until one has seen 1t In this
eton collar.
Copyright, 1918. by the Mcclure Newspa'
per Syndicate.)