The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-06-28

Does your particular memory go
back TO the days when TO dress n boy
child as IA 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 ns common among chill
dren as they are now among men.
But II Is not possible for the war
10 leave all forms of dressing free
rr0m lis sinister influence.
II touches the clothes for the young
In a gentle way, and the way is not
Objectionable. Middle youth, as It Is
expressed at seventeen and younger,
finds The avion of France and Italy
the most picturesque fields from which
10 draw fashion here and there.
The Oblong cap the flowing cape
with one end draped over the shoulder
are neat and attractive fashions 10 use
up for the summer season. An illu-
sive kind of Sum Brown belt is be-
coming n bit common, but II too finds
an abiding place on the coat Of
slim little suit.
Now, however, that such big ma
jority of young women find that public
opinion permits them 10 wear breecheS,
cap and coat for war relief work. they
are less apt 20 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 a mass of children that
must be dressed well throughout the
hot season, and for these the design
crs have turned out enough fashions
To supply the demand of Il continent
of grownups. They smack of sophis-
ucatiOn, 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 a handkerchief, the patent
leather belt, the umbrella skirt, and
the short Sleeves-which, after all. age
has merely pilfercd from youth this
spring
There are still touches of an older I.
war in the retention Of the top hat |
and cape coat In TWO cOlors, which was
a 11ppfpd fr,s, tho Iiroot,ira and tba b
consulate after the designers could .
not force them upon women with any /
degree of success last winter.
The Organdie froclis, 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.
1t is 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-Or, rather, suggested by
the styles launched this spring for
clothes have done rather
lettcr in the juvenile version than in
he adult. Whatever may be the fate
If the etOn jacket in crOwn-up cos
true it is that not one woman
n ten can wear it to advantage. In
hort. the etOn jacket style goes very
much better with children than with
heir mothers or big sisters. Likewise
he collar that is always part of the
,icture with the eton jacket-the
collar that seems to make
louble chins triple, and hides all the
'rettiest curves in the grown Woman's
ieck without cOnceaing any of the
gly ones. 1t is cminently becoming
N little girl in fact, one never
nows what an entirely adorable spot
$ to be found at the back of a little
iris neck until one has seen it in this !
ton collar.
Copyright, 1918. by the Mcclure Newepa
per Syndcate)