The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-05
Child Wear Costly
One little fairy and an imp or
two make mothers sigh for
old barefoot days and daddy
frown when he gets bills.
written for the United Press by
Margaret Rohe.)

Bud must be reshod.
Buckskin pumps needs Dorothea,
Little gift of God"
Tottie must have bigger sandals,
Jim and Jerry, too;
Even so the little FordIet
Wants new rear shoe.
Really is it any wonder
Daddy gets the blues
And Ma hooks the family jewels
When the kids need shoes?
NEW YORK, June 5.-If you have
a little fairy in your home with per-
haps an imp or two to boot, you are
no doubt seriously contemplating the
Kneipe cure or sending them out to
Dennishawn to have 'em turned into
barefoot dancers.
But after all, why kick on the boots
alone, since all the garments apper-
tanning to child's wardrobe are
twice as expensive proportionately as
a grownup's? Though they are dear
momentarily, they are also so dear
affectionately that you just can't re-
sist 'em.
Time was when sheer white hand
made slip with touch of real lace
insertion and edging was the acme
of elegance for any and all children,
irrespective of type. Nowadays de-
signers for small folas are just as
important as designers for big folks,
and it is. just as essential that the
type of frock should fit the wee wear
ers' personality.
We have departed far from the
English costume of dressing our off
spring in chaste white and, following
the French fashion, we now deck 'em
out in all the colors of the rainbow,
from orange and cerise down to black
and lavender. Black taffeta frocks
are indeed very chic enlivened with
gay yarn embroidery anu an organdie
dress of orchid or mauve, fluffy ruff
fled and sashed and surpliced, is per-
feet for an heiress from three to
eight.
The French models are mostly
straight lined little affairs, very brief
as to skirt and very scant as to full
ness. They all show some striking
embroidery of brilliant hued yarn or
silk, or else some unique color COM
bination of materials.
A quaint little dress of pale blue
Japanese cotton crepe has a short
waist and low round neck and arm
holes outlined with scalIops of pink
yarn crochet and is worn over little
white organdie guimp, edged with
tatting. The same model comes in
a rose crepe, with Chimes blue yarn
scallops or an orange with scallops
of lavender.
A dashing little Nile green linen
with collars, cuffs, pockets and yoke
splashed with the green and cerise
Of embroidered cherries and topped
off with poke of green raffia bob
Ding with the same delectable fruit
caused various shades of green envy
to sprout in other small breasts as
is fair owner Haunted its cherry
charms in the park the other day.
The cunning fluffy ruffle frocks of
dimity, pink rosebudded
'oile and cross barred organdie, in
Ill heavenly shades, turn their fortu-
late little possessOrs into animated
lower bells or butterflies. Quaint
fleets of grandmother chintz and
English print in gay colors are chic
md bizarre and perfect apparel i'm
iced for the back haired, gypsyesque
title maid, as the fluffy frocks adorn
more fttingly the pink and white per-
ection of Miss Goldylocks.
AS for the little Beau Brummels,
hey still strut in khaki attire or
wager in the starched white or navy
lue of the Jack Tar. They are great 1
ticklers for the proper insignia, how 4
yer, and woe be it to the short e
ighted mother who has purchased @
n English sailor suit for her young n
Opeful. Her life is made hideous o
urden until the royal insignia is s
pped from the sleeve and replaced '
18th the screaming eagle and white e
airs must shine from each corner il
{ the collar or all will not be we'll
it'll the world. 6
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