The World of Fashion

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 26, 30 December 1908, Page 42

The World of Fashion

(By

MARGUERITE.)

Seaside Fashions for Children. TUSSORE HATS TRIMMED WITH PUGGAREES. In the month ot January the seasuk belongs by letters patent to thd schoolboy and schoolgirl revelling in a tern

porary emancipation from Latin verbs and compound fractions-. December, is, however, the babies’ season, and an army of small fry from nursery regions, with their white-capped attendants in tow, and a flotilla of toy boats marshalled

in battle array for an invasion of the rock pools, not to speak of spades and buckets to dig trenches and rear castles on the golden-ribbed sand, make their apnearanee with much fuss and chatter as the month advances. .Suitable dress for the children’s month is ahvays something of a problem, and

mothers arc inclined to vote solid this summer for shantung as one of the leading materials, a plain, natural-coloured shantung made in the pleated form which is shown on the right of the illustrations on this page being one of the

favourites. The front panel is punctuated down each side with large buttons, while a green leather belt, a green tie, and a wide lawn collar edged with a gauffered frill of lace or lawn and sewn with French knots, completes the effect.

Striped duster linens are almost as high in repute for the children as they arc for their elders, and the wisdom which dictates that the sleeves shall lie made short instead of trusting - to the specious promises of the little people that they will “turn them up,” is shown in the case of the wader with the bucket and spade, who appears to mean business such as is likely to involve a great deal of splashing from elbow to wrist. The dress in question is made i-athe sailor shape, and is simply slipped on over a

little striped and woven bathing dress, fitting to the figure, and which forms a species of vest, where the collar opens in the front—an expedient which in not a few cases is adopted for the first thing in the morning before the daily dip, and which saves the double dressing and undressing, the necessary dry garments being carried to the bathing machine in a bag. The wide, shady Tussore hat simply draped with a puggaree of spotted muslin is one of the favourite forms of headgear for small people this summer, being ideally light and cool, and proving a serious rival to the popular sun bonnet. The little lady on the extreme left of the page wears a hat of this description,

with a frock of striped zephyr strapped with white linen, the hat iu question giving ample protection from the sun and obviating the fear of sun-headache, which is one of the common complaints of children during July. On Sunday morning, however, all nurserydom turns out en fete, and the esplanade becomes the Longehamp or Hyde Park of the diminutive elegantes. White frocks are almost invariable, and the most charming effect is gained by little coloured linen coats very smartly made and trimmed with white soutache, which are worn over the little “ buffy ” white dresses. The effect is still more accentuated by the quaint cottage bonnets with' which Leech has made us so familiar, and which are trimmed with a little

clump of apple, pear, double cherry. Of peach blossom on each side. JU The favourite material for garden party frocks will, I suppose, always be muslin of one kind or another, but the word is elastic, and it can wear many; faces. A simple white muslin, with a blue ribbon, is no longer the inexpensive resource of the pretty, penniless maiden, but rather the luxury of the millionaire’e only daughter. Our sketch, made at Panem’s, shows a charming creation in white muslin, painted with dainty sprigs of Howers. The fichu and sleeves are in pineapple and white muslin arranged iu

alternate folds, and the skirt, though clinging in front and quite plain over the hips, has a fulness behind which is

This is a dainty model for tucked net or crepe-de-chine, and bands of filet embroidery, with touches of gold or silver . Ims design might also be carried out in black chiffon, with bands of black filet insertion and silver thread, and a high belt of silver tissue.

very graceful. Other pretty little summer gowns are being made in simple printed cottons, trimmed with black

taffetas. They arc quite short in the skirt, and slightly gathered into a high waistband. .Some dressmakers have had

the happy thought to cut out printed flowers from odd bits of these materials; these they edge round with a tiny pip-

ing of black silk and applique as medallions on the ends of sashes, or on net guimpes or round the flat bands of taffetas at the foot of the skirts, a favourite style just now for trimming short garments.

with .t yellow ribbun in a bow at OH' side. The linen of amber hue is made quite p’ainly, belted with black patent leather, and crowned with a hat of straw to match, with a trimming of jet boadft and two black quills

Caught al the side with a dull gold buckle, and Falling into a sash edged with a dull gold fringe, which is repeated on the skieyes; yoke of cream lace; rustic straw hat with tea roses, and cream silk ribbon caught, it the side.

Sunday frocks may well be made of white cotton voile, decorated inorc or less according to the “person and the purse,” while the embroidered muslin dress mounted over chiffon, lined with soft satin, is the easy privilege under <a dozen attractive aspects of the wealthy. Yellows in a lemon shade, and of a deep amber hue, enjoy considerable popularity at the moment. A good example of the former is decked round the hem and on the bodiee, which bears a small V-shaped vest of tucked white muslin, with large -round spots embroidered in white satinstitch; and this is worn with a frilled black net hat tied