JUVENILE FASHIONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 71, 15 June 1927, Page 5

JUVENILE FASHIONS

MODES FOR THE LITTLE MISS By ISOBEL FRANCIS Those who specialise in making children’s clothes are very busy just now with new designs. In the children’s department of a fashionable store the other day I admired the dainty coats and hats which formed part of the new stock. I noticed that the work and elaborate cut in some of the tiny exclusive models made their cost not very much lower than that of a mother’s smart toilette. An extremely popular, and, indeed, serviceable mode for the young girl, at school and in town, is a navy costume. This may be simple and inexpensive, or more elaborately made and costly. The coats are usually straight and plain, while the short skirts contain numerous pleats, either in the knife style or the fine fancy patterns. Half-Belts Other suits have wide, soft suede belts across the front of the and when coloured material is used then the belt and the pipings at collar and cuffs are chosen to tone.

Full-length cream serge coats also have these half belts and here the buckles may be of ivory, but it is more likely to please the little wearer if in some fancy shape, and coloured. Fine flannel is the material of manv little coats, and in the shops at the moment there ard some pretty example!? of how well the checked and striped material combines with the plain varieties. It is possible to get the onecolour material to match exactly the fancy ones, and sometimes big checks match minute patterns, making the home dressmaker's task much easier # Dustproof Colours There are pretty new coat materials in biege and other sand shades, in eluding many brown-pink tones, and the dressmakers know they are popular, because such colours do not show the dust. In the departments devoted to juvenile millinery are many big shapes in felt and straw. For the summer I was shown one big crinoline in pokebonnet style, trimmed with cluster* of moss roses at either side. Primroses, daisies and buttercups are among other tiny blossoms which art* the vogue on the new picture hats. It is also fashionable to have a large or small shape dyed in marble and rainbow effects, showing a mixture of bright colours. I saw some small models, made with tall crowns and small curly brims, in which pink straw was plaited with cream, and, as decoration. there were orderly rows of bright felt flowers, placed in front, similar models had felt cockades at the side. There are new variations of the beret and many “tammy” crowns among the new stocks. Soft felt and velvet are popular for the floppy styles and these always become the little round childish faces. GOOD WIVES MAKE GOOD SALESMEN “The man with a nagging or suspicious wife never yet made a good salesman,” declared a successfu motor-car dealer recently. “But,” ht added, “the man who has a reasonably ambitious wife, who realises that business is business, and who is always willing and eager to lo her bit toward helping her husband along, is the sort of a fellow I’m always gla'’ to tv re.” The dealer had been approached by a young man, asking for a portion as a motor salesman. “Whv do you want to know all about mv family?” the young man asked. The dealer replied that it was not full*' realised just what an auto salesman's wife and family could do to bring him success or failure. Some women always wanted to know where their nusbands were every minute of the day and night. “It is my fixed policy,’* he went on, “to find out as much as I can about the wives and families of the men who look good enough to me to hire as salesmen. Whenever I find that the applicants have wives who would be drawbacks to their success in the business. I turn tH~m down. But when I find a man has the righa sort of wife and family 1 hire him, provided all other things are equal.”