Hh SECTION hig | ren YEAR 86: No, 205. : KINGSTON, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1919 BR Pem------------------------------ Ain i ni, i What Well-Dressed Women will Wear Edited by Anne Rittenhause orto hy TY ahi hp 4 VOTOWeeew La 2 Copyright, 1919, by The McClure Newspaper Syndicate. : Children's Clothes Are Measured by Inches, Not Yards young is vivid and interesting. It for children who were to be unwrap- started in France. It has both the necks and arms, the high cost of ma-jromp; and all of these clothes in a has changed.in a striking manner ped, unswathed, practically undress- qualities of the other two revolu- terials; but the French women make measure reflect the new fashions for with: each period in the world's his< ed in order to promote their resist- tions. It mingles coquetry with hy- their own clothes to a far greater, women; many of them are merely ab- tory. It has had its designers who ance to the weather. giene. It has not the dntire' sim- [degree than do the Amiericans, even breviated additions of what young Were eccentric, its colorists woo were | Not even the" mothers of today' plicity of De Monvel's fashions or though they produce the master {matrons wear. Es violent, its reformers who.really re- realize the significance and import- 'the shy appeal of the Greenaway dressmakers of the world. There is a youngster who goes to formed, its artists who created revo- ance of this change. It dismissed clothes. The shortness of children's clothes}walk in the afternoon wearing a red lutions. 'red flannel underclothes, it th:ew! When France first began to cut"may come about from the same rea- velvet coat that is quite worthy of Kate Greenaway and Boutet de woolen fabrics into the discard, it her children's clothés above the knees, son; that every inch of material costs imitation. It is a ruby red, warm and Monvel were among the latter. They made stockings of little importance, | America was a bit aghast. She did more than it ever did in the world's lustrous, and is trimmed with white were gentle giants who 'turned the it put a taboo on long curls, it des-| not think the fashion wotild come history. Therefore, the French vec kid, that supple kind of kid that Paris thoughts of all mothers in a different troyed childish coquetry with the across the = ocear. Well, it. has, [kon clothes by inches, not yards. The introduced for women's * elothes in direction from what they were. Miss thoroughness of a cyclone that Smart children are dressing atcord-| American woman can do that more August. In other days it might have Ibe over a western village. {ing to the French ideas eyen more |easily for her children than for her- been considered a tunic. This season Because of this' reovlution there tenaciously than their elders are. Ha-|self There is nothing on thé score . appeared a new race of children; waii itself never had skirts that were jof modesty that will prevent her} {youngsters with short, straight hair, higher than those worn by the smart [from cutting her youngster's skirts | with more than half of thei bodies youngster who is out walkind with above the knees, although she will (Below) Smart little cape of French blue cloth with brown fur collar and pipirg of brown silk, shown on left. On right, Child's coat of red velvet trimmed with soft white ki. ! Fashion Maa Yakoh a Mow Yur 2 : : 4% White Peltry and Brown Seals . 3 Clothes Were. Neve . So Ab- A : } A skin Are Used For Trimming : OPQ S00 : x : of Pas« I. breviated, but thesLittle Is fd toyz Dance Frocks Bre of Pas ; That Rasch Well Aging: : - Tove -- Small Boys Knees Are Worn on the Sa. A Wear Black Velvet Trousers Street Pulled to the Arm Pits Over » With Tiny Slips of | J j Cloth and Velvet. Blue & and : | Blouses of Lawn, With Sus Ruby Are Among the ' LE 7 i : / i ih penders of Velvet. "if i \ lors. 2 young English boy from Great Brite mericay We dre far too apt to.lay stress ] Bs ! py sin who produced in the A. n clothes for. women rather than i id } | i mind and actions much that was children, The majority of the world 1 : 2 - ; | 2 queer and foreign to our race, us well appears to think that fashions begin | ; pr : : Cs as much that was enthusiastic and with the first dance and not with the ] . 2 K | : Sunda. The . JPrinos undoubtedly cradle. f y 1 f preferr er to the former, Even mothers are apt to lose their : i ' | He came to view at first hand the point of view about the importance ! i ' . \ 1 \ 3 greatest republic in. the world, and of <hildren's slothes, They will Spend i \ : : k Lust Bive Ruszied, #f not Saddenet, ys shopping for a coat suit for : \ | ' ~ Z : - wagers cur ng te (themselves, and only hours getting | ! "MN ; ent IK 3 ! him before their own front doors, "together a codtume for a five-year. THRE \ oe } e ! . and women kneeling to him as he child, "Phey believe that nursery ; Na Ei : Bod i + A : May at baru " 1] passed .y lothes are merely eoverings . and ser Na HN) 2 PF : » : TET - The token of his princehood, the eons wnsmsyto fake fashion into | T hy Te prin go Boe Lindi JU . account en the ¢ puts up he: 4 | : } \ 3 mid. hair if she is a girl; when the child ' 2 / : t : winter fashions, just as the wrapped is a boy the mother ceases to care \ 2] R AORN . ae : I'S Col > gold turban of the Queen of Belgium anything about his clothes a foo ey : : : FH a / bon Hamed diately far flung across the oa he starts for ng school ex- a So | . "sept to see that he has enough. 3 : | / ; = 2 | ; Be It is on children that all ostrich She is usually wise to neglect the Imported : pions : ) : feathers look well, and the youngs choice of her boy's clothes. He is far PO! party frock .. f c Smart little suit for | '°™® Who wore in the afternoon a more difficult to manage than a girl. for little girl, There is a ' : 4 geranium red duvetyn hat trimmed n : [ child. = The trousers are with ostrich fringe in the same shade, He is prone to discard whatever is pale green taffeta bodice / "; , 3 a oll deen Tame sh given him, or sell it in order to bux with flounced skirt of | f or Oo a the the Directolre eh op oad what he wants. 'He usually asserts a shiffon In the same shade. 7 ¥ x blouse is of fine white --- 1 . ~~ violent independence Pver the choice : LP Wo : lawn with lace collar inently wag f collars and shirts, Af ties and hats Tiny pink rosebuds from < i made possible by the fact that she a. Soon as he Sts from the nar. he belt: : } 7 wo and cuffs. wore her hair long and curled. sery. He discards his mother's opin- i / 5 : Shomer ion of clothes along with his nfirse. *y RE Wha Children Dance. The mater i vise if She accepts his G a ait vi 9 ; ie fusideted a Jop coat. Its nar-| One truly measures hy inches / verdict as 'W he ress. This reehaway brought a quaint 1c ; J : J Of white kid just meets high yards, when it comes to the . act of serenity will put her in better [torianism into children's tlothes; she q b 4 leggings of white kid that are At dance frocks: A boy and a girl grace with as he will have his accented coquetry which, in the minds $ ; ; { ed over white shoes; and, by the appear at a Christmas da way whether through peace or vio-|of many, is merely a heightened ac- : ' way, it is just such leggings that lence. : centuation of modesty and feminity. 3 + { make possible all these tiny clothes No one I§ so utterly unable to hear| She introduced long skirts for chil- y that are introduced for children. They take advice about the choice. of | dren, big sashes, poke bonnets, frills are de luxe editions of the winter is wardrobe as a boy, unless it is a and flounces, cutis and shy glances. - . garments worn by well-dressed chil- man, The male species ignores any Now and. then the world reverts to}: - : 3 ------r : deen in Canada to protect them : stion of the female species as all of these things. for women, but ey : a : - fagtnst the: cold. to ov it should dress. Mind you,|the shy young English artist, who ee ir This little coat of ruby velvet is f ; a man has no hesitancy in giving his |adored children and made them her : : given an Empire waistline by a belt 4 views as to how a woman should most intimate companions, was the ' . ; 3 " : of kid. The neck is finished with an dress; he believes himself an abselute | first to lring into babyhood . the i } - h ' Eton collar of it. A crush hat of carbiter on this question Nothing [strong note of frivolity tempered by . J ~ ruby velvet dotted 'with white wool she may say about fashion or style imodesty and childlikeness. ' , } » . . taps the costume. - or cost has any "influence on his de-| Her attitude toward clothes over- vii Sl j J ; ere is another child who goes cision. ¢ has his own views or turned all the English conceptions. ; ' 3 out walking wearing a cape of French . opinions or prejudices, and these he|It made Europe look with: distaste . & ; RET 3 blue duvetyn with a collar of, seal- _ expresses at. the slightest provoca- upon the apparel that ft had chosen y d - Nat skin. It does not reach to the knees, '} tion. . : for children. Today we would look Aa y but it manages to arrange itself in « There are women who listen to|with distaste upon such clothes be- nl, i & ; : . four circolar sections, each piped men. When they do listen they us-| cause they confined the legs, re- : iw 'i 2 A i with brown silk to carry out the ually dress in & way that brings out|strained freedom, permitted children : : ; Co : i color scheme of the seal at the neck. whatever ga they may have [to regard themselves in the light of So ade" n 72 . Forhere " a high, fluted sap Li the x their ut rare! 0 they |coquettes. : . : A ' h 4 'rench blue duvetyn whic $ a on in a fashionable ie The rue, it was a healthy change f ¢ ANY o ? tight head-band and a huge pompon of men can subdue eccen-| from. the exasperating clothes that F J LY Ar TEE | i = of seal. It is quite the fashion, you OW 10 & woman's clothes [the seventeenth and eighteenth cen- i 5 ) Pari \ ; see, to make the hat of the material he! Re bein, what is|turi¢s imposed upon 1gsters; 4 ¢ 4 , 4 : : 3 of the_coat, then constantly wear. the wg clothes that were made of stiff me-| - A 0 {SE / Iwo pieces as a street costume. Act- ually brocades. that. had. pointed A ! ' ing on this theory a mother does not that the only bodices boned in front and at the : ' hha y # : Bs qorY aa 10 te chafos of a 'influence the | sides, panniers; at 'the hips held out : J 5 FT determined by the sot. with cerclettes, In those days chil AY pie ; fies J ren were as compressed as mwum#} oo i § 5 i? : ; Prince" of Wales' Tips. mies. They could NOt Ful, nor play. eg Er HE : Sealskin and ermine continue to be : 3 : \ g FS ; the pioiee, of peltry fort juvenile : eo Ph oe clothes, - Not much mongolie is used Bare and Arms. ; 3 i ; since it has taken airs unto itself and |. After the Greenaway revolution : ! : il ol \ he : ; : } : a ; + ir et ¢ gone into the higher strata of adult] ha- came the De Manvel revolution, The Le AS ST ---- heat a | fone into the high renchman was also an ardst not only cared deeply bat was interested. in the clothes $s own group o! lived in the aristocra .|in Paris and who d ie artificialities §i2°