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Show CHILDREN'S FASHIONS IN PARIS. How Little Freuch Peopl. DreM In th. City ana at tl.a Sea shore. It seems to the observer that chil-dren chil-dren fashions can hardly be improved plain, afford the freest movement, and are of material not easilv soiled. Thev are easily made np if laundrying is necessary. neces-sary. Children now fill the Paris parks, large and small, and swarm over the Bands m the watering places, and everywhere every-where their costuming is alike attractive and simple. Tho little girls wear blue and white : serge combination suits, the skirt of I white, with bands of castle braid in blue In graduated widths, and invariably IN THE PARK. kilted. The sailor blouse is made of blue serge or flannel, and trimmed by having white collar and vest front with graduated braid, and the hats have panaches of blue and white striped ribbon. rib-bon. Altogether a useful stylo, which, with the exception of tho hat, is made the same for boys and girls. Larger girls wear dainty little colored chambray or gingham dresses garnished with self colored Hamburg embroider)', with no other trimming except a sash without ends, and maybe a jiostiche bow or so on the shoulders. One of the innovations is for children to wear short socks, or stockings which are black or dark brown on the lower part' and flesh color above. This gives an appearance of coolness greatly to be desired. Many of the children, even little lit-tle girls of 8, wear their stockings half high, the rest of them being rolled in a compact little ridge, aftr the manner of the Scotch. Bo3'S of 6 to 12 wear a sort of modified Fauntleroy suit, - feth knee breeches, tied with bows and short ends of velwt ribbon, and a sailor blouse waist with velvet trimmings, and a velvet sash tied in loops without ends. The long sash ends interfere greatly with a boy's activity, ac-tivity, therefore they are discarded here. Blouse suits are worn by boys of all ages, from those in kilts to those of 15. Blue and snuff brown are the favorite colors for ordinary wear, but there is a new gray which is very much liked for full dress. This gray has a kind of an ashen surface, which is very soft and contrasts well with the velvet with which it is always trimmed in the matter mat-ter of collars, revers and cuffs and frequently fre-quently postiche pockets. AT A WATKR1NO PLACE. Nurses have their fashions, too, and this season it is to have wide bows of poppy red ribbon, and long ends, to their caps, and their aprons havo little red bows on the pockets. It is a mark of quality for a family to have a pretty and exquisitely neat, not to say coquettish looking bonne. The dress is invariably black. Long hair flowing loose is almost universal uni-versal for children of all ages, and few boys under the age of 13 wear their hair cropped, a fashion which renders the Parisian children the pretty creatures that they are. j |