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Show ITrnctleol frock for the school girl thoWH in a combination of Anderson gmgham and plain linen, this latter forming an attractive jacket with velvet vel-vet belt. I Checked Coats Have a Suggestive Sug-gestive Spring Freshness Tailored Suits for Small Girls Colored Silk Thread Embroideries Em-broideries on Lingerie Frocks i Smart Little Jackets of ' Contrasting Color Roumanian Rouman-ian Embroideries Attractive on Children's Garments o I It is always amusing to note how closely styles for little tolks follow current modes in women's garb. Just now embroideries and braidings add a deal of elaboration to- grown up costumes and one- is not surprised sur-prised to find them upon juvenile models also. Many of the small coats for spring are quite elaborately elaborate-ly embroidered with soutache or colored col-ored silk and little dresses show the dainty darning stitch embroidery done with colored silk thread which Paris is putting on women's blouses end accessories. This new embroid- PHOTO. FASHION CAMERA STUDIOS ery is not so easy to do as it looks Much patience is required to set the running stitches evenly and to keep the lines perfectly straight, and any deviation gives the embroidery an amateurish effect. The best way is I to trace light pencil lines on the material and run the silk in and out along these; the line? will fade out during the first laundering. Sometimes Some-times there are rows of the delicate embroidery with a single color in graduating shades; scroll and roc-occo roc-occo designs are fancied also. CHECKED COATS FOR SPRING DAYS There is something appealingly fresh and winsome about a checked smartly tailored coat accompanied by white boots and stockings and a ravishing spring bonnet, and one scarcely wonders at the recurrent popularity of checked worsteds for children's coats from year to year. This spring the little coats are smarter than ever or it seems so and a crisp blue and white check is particularly fashionable. Bernard has introduced this blue and white check to Paris and it is especially attractive attrac-tive for children when combined with big white pearl buttons. Even Dainty dance frock for the wee kiddie fashioned in flesh crepe de chine, with elbow-length slcncs and crushed satin belt. A frill cream net top place softens the sleeves and round neck Inch tucks break the sevcreness of the knec-length skirl. quite small girls are wearing coat and skirt suits, these days and every mother knows the small daughter's longing for a real, "grown-up"' suit I with a skirt that may be worn with 1 separate waists. The acquirement ' of such a costume seems to mark, i in the youthful feminine mind, a i decisive point in one's advancement 1 toward young ladyhood. An admirable little suit for a girl of eleven is of blue mohair stitched in rows with white sewing silk, the I skirt pleated and the short jacket loosHy belted and trimmed with t white buttons in two sizes. A broad collar of dark blue taffeta turns back on the shoulders and over this is a collar of white serge embroidered in the Roumanian colors, red and blue. Many of the childish coats have these vivid Roumanian embroideries and the effect is vefy good, especially especial-ly when the coat material is dark or neutral in tone. I PHOTO. FASHION CAMERA STt'DIOS PONTINE COATS FOR THE MOTOR Like her fashionable mamma, the small maid must have her stunning pontine coat for sport and motor wear. The fabric is distinguished in itself, with a waxed, leather-like outer side and a reverse of silk or cloth in some strongly contrasting shade; and these coat are cut very smartly with fancy buttons and rows of handsome silk stitching for trimming. trim-ming. Sometimes the reverse side shows in collar, cuff and pocket facings. fac-ings. Pontine is a recently introduced intro-duced fabric which has been seized upon with acclaim by the French and American tailors because of its sporty appearance and its quality of lightness combined with resistance resist-ance to cold and net. A charming motor coat of pontine for a little girl is French blue in color with red silk on the reverse side A Rou-manian Rou-manian embroidery motif in red, lilue and dull gold color is copied on the collar, and matching hat, with appliques of pontine in the proper shades. This charming tan serge coat is almost a duplicate of the fashionable garments gar-ments offered for grown-ups. The lining is of soiree silk and the deep collar of navy faille silk. GINGHAM AND VOILE DRESSES IN FAVOR Linens arc so scarce and so high priced this season that most mothers will turn to some other fabric for children"s summer frocks. Since combinations of fabrics are so fashionable, fash-ionable, linen is being u?ed sometimes some-times in graceful little boleros or slipovers, above frocks of pique, lawn or cotton gabardine, the linen coat or tunic in color and the frock white. Very short jackets of striped sport material, furnished with buttons but-tons down the front but fastened only at the top button, arc exceedingly exceed-ingly chic with afternoon dresses of lingerie material Some of these small iackrts are delightfully gay in color; on model of orange and white striped La Terz. a new sport silk, worn with a frock of mocked white soiree silk at I'alm Beach this month, an example. The frock is smocked ir paler orange and the gay jacket has black buttons and a I Box pleats from shoulder to her.t especially es-pecially in the frocks for the growing grow-ing girl ate particularly attractive, since they hide to an extent her angles and lanky appearance. Tan linen is introduced here with collar, cuffs and belt in brown linen. Embroidery and pearl buttons afford finishing touches. long-streamcred ncckbow of very narrow black velvet ribbon. Smockmg is as popular as ever though it does not over-run every sort oLphtldish costume as it threatened threat-ened o last season. Smocking should always be done with silk, even on cotton frocks, for silk thread is the only kind that will keep its color satisfactorily and many of the new materials cannot be matched in other than silk thread. Mothers should see to it. also, in purchasing little garments of tailored tail-ored type that silk has been used in sewing up seams and other details A cheap substitute for silk thread would hardly be tolerated by a fastidious fas-tidious woman in her own garments, and the qualities of distinction and service are quiti as important even more important in small costumes that will obviously receive harder wear. J |