i:.—_-x1¢' rs, ' <-.lf« I l‘ vi" ‘ #4'...‘__9 "- u '- Vs .. .- _..-___. Dressing tho Flappe LAPPER styles. as they were written with a big I" and a big 8. may be a. thing of the past; flapper manners may be improving. and flapper morals may not be in so perilous a. condition as they seemed to he to many a few years ago. In fact. the whole flapper question may be a bit passes at the present time. But the flapper. as she really existed for decades before any one thought of regarding her u-nh concern and alarm. is still with re and the problem of dressing her is just as interesting and as difficult. Many of us can remember when "flapper" was just a bit of English slang, like "swank" and "beaver." Flapper. of course, was used to in- dicate the awkward young girl of fifteen or so. rather too big to wear little girl clothes and too young to wear women's. She was very often of the all arms and all legs variety. unused to wearing finery. rather self—conscious yet not unattractive. She was indeed a fledgolinH young wild duck unable to fly, flap- ping along on the water. Flapper Means Two Things. As the term came eventually to be used it carried with it quite a dif- ferent significance. It indicated the precocious, sophisticated young girl who seemed to be prematurely wise in the matter of dress as well as most other subjects. She was a. young fiedgeling, who it. her brief career outside the nest had come to know more about flying than her mother. Flapper clothes in that sense are quite a different proposition from flapper clothes in the former sense. hut it is the clothes of the flapper as we used to know her. the rather awkward girl of in-between ago. that call for closest consideration. Theoretically it may be organdie. tunes and other rather crisp materials make charming eve- ning frocks for the girl of flapper years. but in actual practice it often turns out that the crisp. fresh fabrics of this irenua add to rather than detract from the flapper‘s awk- wardness; the demnreness that we hoped would be so becoming only heightens her embarrassment. Soft Fabrics Good. Fv-rx- young girl really yearns to u'n1r the soft clinging fabrics for evanimr. (innrzetier crepe is her cmlvitrm. in planning the summer \ .1.. that. (i) .‘r-U’ ' ', - - .. . .. , . (4." vI‘IIm .si .s Ian/gnu nl.‘vl.\ll. 1/1 A left 9 Mafia 0698 and skirt with white alpaca jacket and t . '9‘” blouse. skirt. ' wardrobe of your flapper Gently}: don't overlook at least one“ Wm georgette crepe frocku It w} rnIthis a multitude of occissliftnzh12::n scarf in with a scar _ letvgfiesgnts quite a different smoc::k snce than when worn las't‘ w with an enormous yellow to llow at "the girdle and escort of yei h georgette edged with yellow ostr Cd . With a Jade necklace and a is e At flaht yellow 67390 do chine sports [rock with box-pleated J green scarf your flapper will be quite a different creature, though she wears the same frock. Less serviceable. though pm; highly desirable. are the georgette frocks of the clear pastel hues that. have been chosen so frequently this “spring and summer in the making of young girls' frocks. These clear pastel tones have been spoken of as "Directoire" shades. And doubtless 's‘. :m'lsnts‘ .m'..\ ,. . .. .ig\;/g~"m\i‘lsnzm 'iswra . r/s~ _ 4'5“; White crepe "framed with locr. a red chlflon scarf. peorgette frock “'1'”: it Is learn :‘Cu Could find precedence for them in :he fashions Inscribed by Paris l'i the early years of the last \‘i'lir tut-y. Some one rise With less rid— diction to tho lore of ltizatom- lms dubbed then: "ice cream colors." lo- cause they really do s'mzv‘at tho clear, strong pasta tones of a. Neapolitan brick. They Have Origin-My. if any fnshion ever does honestly originate ;n this land of ours the rhnnrcs are it is nmnnz the flap- pers or those yotznz wvmrn who are just past the flapper age. For the young girl cares precious little nhozt the prestige and name of Hrent deslmmrs, and she would sooner wear It new style because certain smartly-dressed girls in her school had adopted it than because it was affected by well-dressed women in France. The chances are that flapper, daughter of you” would think ‘most smart French women ahsurdly dressed, anyway“ because they did not Conform to the ideas of smartness as developed in her circle of flapper associates, And so it happens very often that, The smart flapper parts her hair at the back. and pushes it to the front. ' i ’ “Ego: / .2. L . By... MAR Y MARSHALL ' ‘ ease-e naa side no Itlll cling to the a?“ shirt for all sportswear. but there are others who incline to the Mach trick of wearing a more feminine tort of sport frock, svoidlngthe complica- tion of separate blouse and skirt. Crepe do chine in yellow. men. blue. gray or beige makes frocks that we would not once have re- garded as at all appropriate for mull. sportsmanship but which a y prove to be re-omin serviceable. p anti: Next week—Trimming the 8m- I new Frock. .73 ~_' :. xtfi "e Pink and green printed chino» frock. WM riding quite independent of France. American girls do develop a It?“ Of their own—1nd it is a. style passed on from one group of girls to en- ofher. from one smart school to another. The young girl is forever making experiments. She dotes on doing her hair in new and marvelous ways. The mature woman has. or thinks she has. tried out themsel- blllties of her hair and so retains a single method of dressing it. varied only occasionally by the changes ,of fashion. Hair Par-ted at leek. Just at prssmt numbers of smart flappers are parting their straight bobbed hair at the back and than brushing it to the front. or course, in do this it'must be out Quite dif- ferently than for an ordinary bob. and once you have made upgyour mind that this is "the" way to "do" bobbed hair then the conventional shingled bob. the side part and the mop head bob. all seem lacking in smartneas‘. With the hair thus ar- ranged a bandesu may be quickly fastened in place. keeping the hoary front section from blowing back. The effect you may have observed. is as if alwws there were a heavy gale blowing from aft. The participation of Mob girls in the American type of sports has had a. telling influence on American sportswear. It remained for them to devise sport frocks that were W. tectly suited to the demands of the game and at the suns time utterly feminine. True though it is that at fashionable European resorts where women from here, there and army— - where are assembled. the well- dressed Enslfsh svertmrasn, is often awarded the verdict of. being beat dresed on links, tennis courts. on' horseback. still the American The slippers and beads are mm is mica-arm m‘ ' som‘Lesaaaeeo Lao-vie picture frock for the flapper. with embroidered white around“. and black ribbons from sleeve and Coral ribbons M M t). collar. AN‘ Itiaofmmm m —: 13:: := THE SHOPPER SEES now consist of nightgown, chemise and stepoine. The latter two are usually worn beneath the girdle or corset. Over this is usually worn a slip—since the woman of today has little to do with under-skirts. The step-ins. many of them elaborately trimmed with lace. seem to have taken the place of silk bloomers with most women. n LMOST all smart lingerie sets Many of the shops are nonunifor- ing elaborate and expensive sets of dice. This is. of course, the result of the mall-Jung craze. A set of dies in a dainty case is A favorite gift or favor nowadays. Often the spots on the dice are made with brilliant stones—rhinestones on colored dice and imitation emeralds on white dice. 6* ' To make girdles and sash bows for the soft light frocks Paris ad- vises ribbon of softest gear-gotta. Shops here are now selling this new ribbon of delicate georgette with a. \ ~ __—a-°—-—_' ._.__————— w mmmwgmmeMlmmhmmum m 99'” ”it’s 830 M‘- narrow satin edging. A" Some women are wedded h fibril gloves for warm weather. A. W attractive pair of this sort of gloves is in fawn color with s cuff consist- ing of a. double row of petals. also of the fawn colored fabric. Smartly dressed children wear fabric gloves on occasions in warm Little boys’ gloves are sold in gray or turn color cotton fabric and little girls wear the same colors as well as white and natural chamoia color. For children there are most at- tractive little canes consisting of sticks covered with brightly colored enamel paint with wrist straps at ‘the side of matching silk cord. Painted fans seem with high favor since things generally are enjoying quite a vogue. Still there. is room for feather fans. Some of the newest of those show plumes of uncurled ostrich. esclr plume being tipped with metallic sequins. to be moods. hand-painted For use with white shoes for sum- mer one may select either flesh colored stockings or stockings of pure white. Some womu: even select checked and other fancy colored stockings when white sport shoes are worn. ————_~_____ COLLECTING SOARFO. Once the fashion for sou-ts was launched no one had to ask whether the hoppers would take to them. 0: course they would. For the scarf is just the sort of small accessory that would appeal strongly to the young girl. Not only do the flap- pers wear them—on every and all occuionr—but they collect than. buying a scarf at every town or place they visit and getting friends to send them scarfs from here, there and everywhere as girls used to so! souvenir spoons. There are girls who have learned how to tie m dye scarfs in order to provide them- selves with a sumciently varied group of colored scarfs at final] ex- pense and they valiantly ”tie and dye" a new scarf specially for wax-y new frock or hat that comes into their wardrobe. To be able to paint ends ewe scarf is an even greater ”oun- pllshment. Some girls weave their on sport seal-fie on hand loomsud movengosofarastoleanto do him. work for the miles a: sh. scarfs they can make in this way. Thehat thatisprettysureteap. ml to the young girl. so the all- liners aey. is the hat that is sold with d sad to match. There were oportsetsofthissortinthem and new a very clever set consists of a hat of printed chiffon ova:- s m MS.
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