Spring Fashions for Children.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8, 24 August 1907, Page 61

Spring Fashions for Children.

EMPIRE COATS AND HIGHWAYMEN CAPES. Not a few ideas have been borrowed from Paris in the matter of spring costumes and coats, and one of these is the fancy for verv short skirts terminating above instead of at the knees. Empire fashions still rule the choice of the nursery authorities, and a quaint fancy in the construction of many of these little vetements is the devotion which is shown to military braidings and “frog-

gings.” Little white serge coats, adorned with coarse white silk braid interwoven with threads of gold, will be seen on all sides, while pale pastel blue coats in the finest faced cloths are often trimmed with silver braid in the Hussar or Guards’ designs. As regards the two children, the one with the ball is dressed in fine navy blue serge with extra full box-pleated skirt. The vest of tucked lawn is outlined with a wide band of white serge adorned with white and blue braid, two long bretelles of the same being brought over the shoulders and depending to the hem of

the skirt in front and Indiind. The other child is attired in a frock of white nerge. adorned with braid button* in white and gold ami straps of the sahie material as the frock.