Evening star., 1938-02-18

IN BOTH toddler and larger sizes
the boxy coat and the princess
line 60 hand in hand. Even the
2-6s will be wearing straight boxy
coats, often with pleated fullness.
These come in closely woven tWeedy
materials with little linen collars. The
softer woolens are in lovely pastels as
well as navy. A little princess model in
French blue has a white pique collar
and a matching little hat with a tiny
bunch of flowers on it. Some of the
tiny toddlers' hats have streamers and
others have chin straps.
Hats for the 7-l0 ages are being
shown in both felt and straw. Some
of these are bonnet styles, others are
off-the-face with the little brlms rolled.
One Of the prettiest little hats was a
brown straw bonnet pressed into rather
square lines framing the face and in
the angles of the brim were tucked tiny
clusters of pink forget-me-
The young miss Of 10 and IL loves a
topper and she will feel even more
dressed up in REFER that fits in at
the waist and reaches the hem of her
dress. New points to be noted among
these are the omission Of collars,
pockets worked into panel seams. and
bright silver metal buttons. Some
times these REFERS have a matching
skirt. Separate coats of checked ma
terials in three softly blended coiors
are young looking. A combination of
checked and plain material is shown
in the sketch above and is very smart
looking. A beige coat with stitched
brown velvet collar and pocket flaps
is good also.
Halfway between a dress and q suit
is the bolero outfit, consisting of pastel
woolen skirt and short bolero to be
worn with a choice of blouses. Be sure
to get the blouse long enough. for you
know they are wearing them puffed
out now, and this requires more ma
terial to do it successfully.
THE jumper outfit is another favor
ite. In one shop they are showing
lot of these cute little skirts with sus-
penders buttoned on to the high
wasted skirts. Narrow patent leather
belts in contrast colors and curvn.g
pockets with zippers add further in
terest to young Wearers. These come
in aqua blue, soft rose. brown and
navy, as well as some plaids.
The cotton dresses for the younger
girls are coming in for spring in the
loveliest floral prints and fascinating
colors. Some new ones from Califor-
mia use bright flowers in a border pat
tern that is as fresh looking as that
land of flowers from which they came.
A square neck. upper fastening and
patent leather belt are other details.
For parties. children do have the
sweetest clothes. There are dainty
little shirred and shocked sheers in
pale pink and blue; there are taffetas
in ankle length that look like old
fashioned pictures. This type of dress
often makes an adorable costume for a
flower girl in the wedding procession.
One of these in pale blue has wide
but shallow boat neck, edged with a
ruf11e of the taffeta, and the tiny cap
sleeves are cut out on the tops of
the shoulders and finished with ruffles
around the openings and pink velvet
ribbon bows. Pale blue net over taf-
feta is another dainty frock for
little maid It has tiny pink rosebuds
used sparingly as trimming in just
the right places.
For informatio concerning items
mentioned in this column call National
5000, Extension 1896, between 10 and
IL am.