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Show $ T'rouser Suits Fine for Youngsters I (Prepared by the United Stntea Department of Agriculture.) WNU Service. Every mother Is relieved ns the time comes when her child learns to dress and undress himself and go to the toilet alone. She Is then much more free for other household duties. Training In self-dressing may be started between two and three years old and a boy will soon take great pride In being Independent. (lood clothing design is the first requisite re-quisite In encouraging self help In dressing. Small trousers should be made with as few fastenings as possible, possi-ble, and these should be placed within easy reach of a two-year-old's little fingers. The child learns by repetition if the buttons and buttonholes are always al-ways In the same place at first, so It Is best to use only one pattern until the little one hns completely mastered Its fastenings. Vary the material, col-er, col-er, and minor style details as much as jrou please. A very good type for the first trousers trous-ers of a two-to-three-year-old is here Illustrated. It was designed by a clothing cloth-ing specialist In the bureau of home economics, United States Department of Agriculture, after studying the needs of a group of nursery school children. These trousers can be buttoned but-toned on to a blouse In the Oliver Twist syle. The back and front button but-ton Independently, and it is not neces--.. sary to unbutton the front In order to drop the back. Sometimes bound side openings are used. Another plan Is to make a two-button drop front which fastens midway between the center seam and the side placket. This .r Is finished with simulated welt plackets plack-ets and replaces the fly. Two buttons Instead of three nre used on the hack drop, so the child can reach them more easily. Those little trousers are straight and short, well above the Vr' nf the knee, and they have plenty ? v&.' - Good Type of Trousers. of room In the seat and sufficient length In the crotch. Elbow sleeves and flat trimmings, stitched to look like a collar and cuffs are recommended on the blouse. These Insure easy laundering and greater comfort when the child is playing actively ac-tively than pieces that move or wrinkle. Crocheted loops are used for closing. clos-ing. They nre made by first crocheting the edge with a single stitch, forming loops opposite the buttons with a chain stitch and finally strengthening the whole edge with a "double crochet." |