The FASHION REVIEW

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 301, 15 August 1929, Page 2

The FASHION REVIEW

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James James Morrison Morrison, Wetherby George Dupree, Took great care of his mother Though he was only three. “ Mother,” he said, said he, “ You can’t go down to the end of the town, Unless you go down with me.”

Possibly James James Morrison Morrison wished to emulate his father. He was being so tremendously a man (and isn’t that the quaintest thing about men ? The older they get, the younger they grow. Have you not found it so ?) Darling J.J.M.M. Can’t you see him, very much knicker-bocker and very little smock. And what a charming mother his must be! She wouldn’t make him wear white sailor blouses and long white trousers, or velvet and lace with gold curls bobbing on his shoulders. And that reminds me of an English mamma, who with an only son, lately at Eton, arrived in the Dominion recently. So horrified was she at the sight of colonial shorts and shirts that she insisted upon his wearing Ills Etonian suit and “ topper.” Imagine that poor child’s writhings! All natural unspoiled children are i clothes-conscious in that they hate to [be diiferent from other children — and “ aren’t we all ” when it comes to a formal occasion or the sports l field ? And children do love to look ! “ just like mother.” I can see a | small tiling of six stepping sedately : along a rain-splashed pavement in the wake of its mother, and clad In miniature rainproof, goloshes, hat, with handbag and umbrella to match. Underneath one guesses is a jumper suit.

American children look rather fantastic in our unaccustomed eyes, in their roomy knickerbockers, bril.iant pullovers and grotesque peaked caps. Any American firm that attaches to “ clothes for children ” those magical words “ with the English swagger,” can be sure of reaping a harvest. Can you think of a more charming picture—a mischievous, freckled face and red-gold curls under a black berot ? The breechette suit is U'A most sensible yet evolved for tots on winter days. It’s much easier to be a bear, an Eskimo or an Indian in a breechette suit. As you know, cottons wi l be to the fore this season. For the “ under .fives ” lovely sunshine yellow dimity with story-book pictures is showing. Children’s frocks will wear suntan backs. At a fashion show, T saw polka-dotted calico trousers with crossed suspenders, and a printed pique beach robe—if you please for when the wind blows cold—“ just like mother’s.” A dainty green dotted sw’ss muslin flaring out from a yoke, with two perky bows under each shoulder made me long to poice some golden-haired baby inside it. and a fresh red and white checked gingham with quaint gingham ruffles on the white organdie collar and cuffs—and a pair of panties peeping out below, was simply sighing for a black-eyed imp in a sunbonnet. Fashions for men aged five to ten! Pockets and a pair of braces will transform any chubby cberub ir.'o a man. However, he may have a sh t and shorts or rompers, jersey, nullover, overcoat and gloves as well.

And remember! Ch ldren have colour in their eyes and tints in their hair, more vivid even than yours. Think out a colour scheme f~r Ihem, too—but, I ask you, net aloud—in front of them.