The Parisienne adores dressing her children prettily, and frequent ly lets her fancy play amorist their clothes with the same spirit as a Tittle girl lets it play about her dolls, Whether boys or girls, French children must support a certain amount of "Mother's Darling" treatment, You see them being put straight by maternal hands in the Metro, in the park, everywhere, and though they are usually dressed VAnglaise, it is by French hands.
1 think the gift of dressing children just right is as much the gift of the English mother as dressing herself just right is the of the French mother. Almost intuitively a woman dresses her boys and gir's well in England, and Just ax intuitively a Frenchwoman dresses herself well, Paris now, however. thy children's shops," the—children dressmakers, one of whom has a they are called in Paris) with "Little Lord Fauntleroy. I boys of three and five are put into white suits with fancy collars, babies into erépe-de-Chine and lace. But thes iris, from two to twelve, are the children who jet the most attention, and the greatest variety in frocks and ensembles, trinkets and access sories, Tt fe a fast to dress Tittle pictures by Reynolds and Gainsborough.
In their long muslin frocks they come in to tea and drop their Tittle curtseys. In. their lone pelisses, trimmed with ermine, a close-fitting Bonnet framing their face, they £0 for walks with their nurse.
White, with a brilliant note of colour somewhere, is what children wear whose mothers can afford it.
More modest incomes stretch out to right red, jade germen, bright blu navy Mae with ight fur to trim and a prich De for trimmed with resehade round. the neck and high waist, A pale yellow illu dress has x sash of Saxe pink crepe de Chine fddered fu blue round the hen and on the iiitle bodice.
Smocking. gathering, ne being a Tittle chet lutly. done by the mother of the who wears it dainty Marquise: dreds of little Kate Greenaway children will play games and dance the Fox Trot at Christmas parties this year with little boys as airmen, as soldiers. sailors, chauffeurs, but not often as marquis, king, or emperor.
'The most' modern spirit children's clothes is to he traced in the almost general fashion of wearing pyjamas. You sce children of all schools. except those of the petite bourgeoisie and the manual workers, wearing pyjamas for slecping and at the sea for running hornie after a bathe, for Iunchcon. Tt is shown again in boys' clohes made of tweed and leather for wet and col weather.
Rvery year the dressing of French children grows more like the dr ing of English children, but nothing will ever make the two children look alike in the same clothes.
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