Frocks and Coats for Little Girls

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 13, 28 September 1910, Page 73

Frocks and Coats for Little Girls

At one time purple was hardly thought of in connection with children’s frocks or coats, but it has been so fully recognised as one of the most becoming combinations a child can wear that the past win-

ter has seen much of this colour worn with large hats of black beaver or satin. With a little coat of thin purple-faced cloth for the uncertain days, an 1 a big hat of fine black straw, encircled with a soft wide satin ribbon tied in a big bow in front, any mite from four to twelve is neatly equipped. BLACK HATS WITH Will I'E FIELD DAISIES. In default of the purple coat, th? ordinary little white serge reefer which so many' children are wearing just now can be supplemented with a hat of this description, or with a pretty blaek mushroom shape wreathed with nothing but white field daisies and tied under the chin—as so many' children’s hats are at the present moment—with a narrow black velvet ribbon passed over the crown and slipped under the wreath.

VALUE OF THE KNITTED (OAT. Later on the cool summer linens in mauve and white will probably be as much in request for children, and even now these little frocks, supplemented with the warm while knitted golf coat which is so fashionable for the nursery people this year, and which is one of the most practical schemes which Mme. la Alode has elected to introduce, are to be seen in not a few instances. The temperature is invariably so different at midday to what it is at night that these little coats are proving an inexpressible boon. They are not only what the dressmaker would call ‘‘excellent packers,” and can be tucked away into any' corner of box or bag for a day or week’s holiday, but they are easily washed and will stand all the hard wear

to which .their restless young wearers are sure to subject them. As regards the sketches of frocks and coat shown ou this page, the little girl seated on the gra-sy bank and very’ much at her ease, wears one of the new frocks with short cut-away top. The tinderdress is ol soft white cashmere, with a blaek patent leather licit, and trimmed at the edgo with a deep hem of shepherd's plaid. This is repeated in the ease of the little bodice, which is finished with a gauffered frill of white lingerie round the throat. Next to her is a child in the simplest of little coats made in sac form. This is carried out in white serge faced with black satin and fastened across with a large smoked pearl button, while the big hat of stretched black satin is wreathed with huge white marguerites with black velvet centres. The last of the trio wears a little frock of striped black and white washing silk, hemmed with a deep band of white silk.