| Show s PARTY FROCKS BY BEATRICE DOWLER New York Jan are they to dance tn our little ones Always there are cambrIc and lace frocks most deliciously infantile and appropriate ready for them but is there not some something something thing more orIginal that can still be classed among the simplicities that alone should appertain to childhood One really delightful toilette for a lit little littie tie tle maid or of nine Is made of white Val lace Into which a broad band of white silk Is inserted just above aboe the hem or of the skirt The bodice is cut square and trimmed with ruffles of lace above aboe which a mitred band of white silk forms an edging At the waist this frock like man many others made for small children now is pleated so that no sash or 01 belt is required to provide a finish Need I add that the Ule sleeves terminate at the elbows a mode that Is now uni universal universal versal for full fuJI dress infantile wear wearA wearA A tiny child of 3 i might inight with great advantage wear a pinafore frock fiock with without without out waist belt or sash hung from a berthe beathe of embroidery It would be built of fine white cambric embroidered with and be posed over a slip of pale rose petal silk sUk The little sleeves would be quite short and the drooping line of the shoulder so great a beauty In very ery small children would be left au an naturel but below this small sleeve there should appear elboW puffs of pale pink silk thus to accentuate the glim glimmer mer of brightness observable through the cambric of the lIttle sUp slip beneath beneathA A frock that can be romped in with without without out being at all damaged is one made of fine white nuns veiling cut square over a lace and pleated be beloW below loW the waist belt which should be one of white kid Across the tho shoulder straps or 0 white silk fastened beneath rosettes upon the square should be visible and the sleeves should be made of lace lae thus adding to the air airiness Incas iness and dressy appearance ot of the lit Jit littie tIe robe Fancy dress parties are one great fea feature feature ture or 0 the season of and little boys and girls in many num numbers numbers bers will now be looking forward to I some such great event Anxious for their children to create an effect many mothers overdo the dressing of their and commit the grave error or of their little faces giving them wigs to wear and in other ways wars as shortsighted dimming cUmming their natural beauty The less complicated a fancy fanc dress for a child is the better it will look Boys make charming beefeaters for forthe forthe the uniform is extremely handsome A cooks costume is easily made and also becoming and a monks may ly concocted The aeroplane may be suggested by a satin suit painted with the sun moon and stars and over the back with the curious sails of the airship which do not in interpret interpret well wIl in cardboard or the cos costume costume tume might be carried out for a girl girland girland and the sails be borne like Uke wings upon the shoulders A Sir Joshua Reynolds girl makes a 3 delightful subject to copy taken for example from Feeding the Chickens the dress for which would com comprise a blue petticoat a with witha a deep collar edged b by a frill elbow a red bow at the throat black shoes with black bows and red stock stoel stockings ings Then many of the pIe pIC pICtures tures ser serve e as a subject for the copy copyist 1st notably the girl or the broken pitcher with her hair an and her simple and becoming tol tOI tOIlette lette Evening for children al almany are many too aM the most practical are made or of a very verj soft lightweight ht cloth in cIrcular form Corm with a deep delp cowl at the back that can be drawn right over th head It is lined with satin which should be white if th the cloth is colored or of a pale coral or blue shade with a t white wran |
