The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-02

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 costumery, true it is that not one woman in 10 can wear it to advantage, One need not be a student of anatomy
 nor possess a very keen feeling for pro- portions to know that it never, never will do for the woman with broad hips,
 and it never never will do for the wom-
 an with no hips at all. Like the straight, | untrimmed sailor hat that came in with
 1t, 1t is uncompromising and unkind to | the average woman, whereas it serves only to enhance the charm and grace of
 the woman who has little more than
 her share of radiant youthfuness. But | children are all youthful, and the ques- | tion of hips somehow doesn't enter into their clothes problem at all. In short, ] the Eton jacket style goes very much better with them than with their moth- l CTS, 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 It is emnently be- coming on 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 it in this Eton collar
 There seems to be a current opinion that it takes a tall woman to wear cape to advantage. Perhaps that is so. But for all that the very little girl, with only few feet of height to her credit. can look very pretty in the little-girl version of the cape The cape that is equal length all around is the model chosen for her, and to have it appear to pest advantage the cape should be made to come slightly below the frock. This Is decidedly smarter than having a little or the frock appearing below the cape.
 The question of how long little girls frock should be cut is one not especial ly easy to answer this year. It all de- bends on the kind of picture you are try ing to paint-it depends on the style of the frock entirely. In general, perhaps, the very little girl wears her skirts as short as ever. Whether this is a phase of conservation or merely a reflex of adult fashions it would be hard to say Perhaps the little girls themselves had something to do with the continuation in fashion of the short skirt, for they really are infinitely more comfortable, as any little girl will let you know.
 But for occasions there are long skirts too-skirts that are quite as long, pro portionately, as the skirts worn by grown folks This, you will find in some of the
  that are rather high of waist and scant of skirt The fchu and frilled elbow sleeve are part of the picture as are the poke hats and little mits of silk. The hchu idea, that has, strangely enough, been so long in coming for little girls, is very suitable, especially for the grow ing child, whose well-filled little bread basket has a way of protruding rather ungracefully when she wears frock with a plain waist Sometimes the fichu con- tinues and forms sash ends at the back
 variation of the fichu style of frock is the frock made with round neck short puffed sleeves and high gathered waist, in true empire fashion. The skirt of this is also fairly long and scant. It is very daintily developed in one of the shops in white net with sleeves edged with half-inch filet lace and two lines of the filet lace about the high shirred waist line.
 Cotton crepe is fabric that has only recently made it's way into the realm of children's clothes, and the idea of using 1t thus apparently came from France, where