THE SMALL GIRL’S WARDROBE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 411, 20 July 1928, Page 5

THE SMALL GIRL’S WARDROBE

Clothes for the little folk assume j an importance quite out of proportion j to their size this season. In fact, it has been declared that a frock for Miss I Eight-years-old may easily cost as j much as one for her mother. This is j |an exaggeration, of course, but the ; fact remains the diminutive frocks, i | coats, hats and footwear were never ! more attractive than they are now. There was a children’s dress parade the other day in a certain important j I salon. It was a revelation, not only j jof the amount of dignity one small | person can acquire, but also of the J charm and daintiness of that small I person’s clothes. One tiny mannequin showed us how attractive a little navy blue cloth coat and skirt can look ou a fine morning! The short skirt, kilted, and worn over a daintily embroidered blouse of white organdi, was accompanied by a hip-length coat cut rather low in front to reveal quite a goodly expanse of the immaculate whiteness beneath. Then we were permitted to admire a general utility dress in natural coloured fabric rather like fine canvas in texture. This was gaily worked in silk cross-stitch round the hem, numerous bright shades appearing in the embroideries. The upper part of the frock was smocked with similar silks, the smocking being carried well down the back and front to suggest a deep yoke. Little sleeves were similarly smocked; so were the tops of the important pockets on each side of the skirt. A party frock in a lovely pale shade of pink organdi next appeared. Frill j upon full frill composed the skirt which stood out like a ballet dancer's, while the wee bodice was quite well moulded to the figure. A posy of mixed garden flowers perched on one shoulder and from this fell a shower of narrow velvet ribbons in various delightful pastel shades. Truly a delightful “special occasion” dress for any small girl. Hats were extraordinarily pretty, too. There were satin models; one in soft beige with streamers of nigger brown velvet ribbon falling from the plain band that encircled the crown; another in palest pink, with black velvet streamers and a cluster of shaded pink rosebuds at the back . . .. The great joy about kiddies’ frocks is the fact that a good model is easily copied by the mother or “Nanny” who is clever at needlework. Hats, also, come well within the scope of the average home milliner, as will be seen by the two little models sketched on this page. GYP.