THE GIRTLS DRESS LIKE MOTHER
STYLES HISTORY IS REPEATING WINTER FASHIONS Fashion history is repeating: itself jn children s clothes. A century ago little folk wore the clothes of grownLittle girls wore tight-laced pocks of the same material, same le agth. and cut as their mothers’. To-day. the only real children’s en--Bjmblß left is the school uniform and the garments baby wears during the year on earth. daughter, aged 10, wears a frock exctly the same as her mother, only it 18 smaller. The shops are filled with dainty Sleeveless crepe de chine frocks made *nthout collars, and even the pocket—* •ways a rule 4n children's frocks —has been discarded. . n ything that is not found in big I ®V er ‘® wardrobe will not be discov- . be -°nging to the little school miss. Children’s party frocks also feature he uneven hem line and bouffant effect ° n the hips! ._^ s for children’s new winter coats ha hats displayed at the fashion parJ~ es * why. they are for the most part /haii editions of those motner and *'*ter "must get ia be u? date.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 303, 14 March 1928, Page 5
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