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. It Is Time for the School _ , r1 ‘ [to [Think About.
The school or college girl wisely choosesan Iii I F rivslled by the little hat of velvet or
ensemble of smart but simple lines, using it wide?! I * velours. Sometimes this is shaped
Ior travel and town wear. 0! the new cobalt 7'9““ .1 4 3 } With small, "soft brim, and again it
i ‘ I ' is made in soft tam or beret shape.
blue is the costume s Own below-the coat i
being of the blue legged with gray laid-fur ‘ I a“. The jumper frock, it is safe to say,
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collar and cum and the two-piece track of
crops do chine to match with short scarf of students of the land. Not only have
the same material. There is a metal buckle ' the French dressmukcra bcen mak-
cn the little belt and a black velvet tam is ‘ ing the most of this fashion in their
chosen to complete the picture. For class- openings, but young women at all
room wear is this frock at left of brown reps the smart resorts in August were
with yellow linen collar and cutie- It is trirn- ' these taro-piece costumes in prefer-
ence to the one-piece frock. These
med with gilt buttons and a brown and yellow ,
s ribbon tie. The sweater costume is chosen by ( \ may be of wool Jersey or halhriggan,
. or of crops. do chino when they are
‘ to be worn beneath a cloth coat. In
some girls for class~room work. The sweater
shown at right is a! beige wool bound with
green to match the color of the kasha skirt,
A simple boyish wash shirt is worn beneath
the dit‘t‘flffli’. .'
some of the new French Jumper
frocks the short skirt shows pleats
all round. Inverted box pleats at
the side often take care of the full-
ness in the little Jumper {rocks seen
here. ‘
8weatere,never seem to lag in
their interest to the school and col-
lege girl. and for sports wear- the
turtle-necked sweater is without a
rival. The advantage of this type
-- or sweater is that it dispenses with
,r" the necessity of a scarf. It may be
~- worn beneath a sport coat on a
chilly, windy day and protect the
neck and throat quite enough with-
out any scarf to consider. The fact
that it must be drawn very closely
over the head docs not bother the ..
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American mother with a school-
girl daughter goes abroad, and
EVERY summer this happens. An
does what nine American women
out of ten in Paris always do—
catches the fever (or shopping along
the Rue do is Pail. She may even
be persuaded to buy little frocks in
Italy where prices seem very. very
reasonable. and certain things she
buys in London—a sport coat or
suit of such wonderful Scotch tweed.
Of course you could never get any-
thing at all like it here for so low
a price. Even Paris frocks bought
from the good dressmakers .don't
seem so very expensive—not when
you consider that each one isva
masterpiece. and in midsummer in
Paris it is possible for the eager-
eyed American woman to pick up
such charming bargains—novelties
of the season that have been marked
down for quick disposal.
Good taste requires em
simple dinner frocks forthe
school or college girl. Gon-
servatioe-and yet smart is
the frock ehoun here of
geranium pink crepe as
chine trimmed with smock
ing and a velvet ribbon belt
a! the same shade.
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Well, this American mother with
her school-girl daughter comes
home. feeling that daughter can be
sent post haste of! to boarding
school or college without having to
fuse a bit about clothes. She has
everything she can possibly want—-
only a few slight alterations are
needed. And what a distinction it
will be for the daughter to have
these interesting European clothes
when the other rls have just the
ordinary sort 0 American things.
Going abroad would really have
been quite worth while if it had only
been to buy clothes. thinks the
mother.
She Needs New Things
They land and work their way
through the customs, return home
and in the course of events unpack
the trunks. Meantime the school-
girl daughter runs out to the coun-
try olub, sees some of the girls.
takes a. trip to the shops for some
trifling purchases and over her
comes a rather sickening realization
that those European clothes of hers
aren't going to look so smart or so
appropriate as she had expected.
In fact. there are some new things
that she will simply have to have.
All the girls are going to wear a
certain sort of new hat. and not to
wear the sort of hot that all the
girls are wearing is a great mistake.
A but straight from the showroom
of Lewis would not really do instead.
Moreover, that suit trom London
hasn't just the right line to it.
Daughter doesn’t look like the other
girls when she wears it. and ot
, course the other girls aren't at all
impressed by the teat- that the mate-
rial is quite superior to that of their
own suite.
And it may be that the daughter
is going to one of those boarding
schools where there are more or less
strict regulations concerning the
dress worn by the pupils. 0r there
may be just a tacit understanding
that no frocks that are extreme in
any way will be considered appro-
priate and most of those European
frecks do look extreme when they
are unpacked and exposed to Sep-
tember sunshine in America. So
the outcome is that the mother and
daughter make a last-minute fox-ray
into the shops and buy a few things
-—Just the things that an American
school girl will surely want to wear.
And the wonderful French things
are hung away in the wardrobe at
home to be worn during vacation
time as much as possible.
Clothes Must Conform
This is what actually happens to
ever so many women every year.
There are always American women
who come home only to be a little
disappointed with their European
"bargains." but this is more apt to
be the case when these "bargains"
have been part. of the school girl's
wardrobe than in any other instance.
This is because from the point of
view of the school girl nothing is so
important as confomiity. Original-
ity, personality in dress seem in a
measure to be at a discount. 1f
originality'is to be displayed at all
it is so by means of some trick or
mannerism contrived in the wearing
of the type of frock or coat or hat
or accessory that has been accepted
as correct for the time being for the
group to which the school girl be-
longs.
Mere intrinsic value of clothes is
worth far less than with other
women. Convention nmnng school
and college girls has accepted fur
coats of racoon, natural muskrai
and certain other rather coarse furs.
And most school or culit‘ge girls
would rather wear :1 cont of that
description that one of Russian some
or other precious pciiry that. though
ten times as valuable. was not what
the other girls wero wearing.
Anything approaching reel orig-
Boie de rose velour hat with little
birds of green leathers fastened
through slit at side.
inality in hate is strictly taboo with
most school girls. A little felt hat
that can be bought for three or four
dollars may suit them perfectly, and
the hats brought from the Rue do is
Paix might seem freakish and ec~
centric. . ,
. Of course one never quite know
——though one can surmise—just
what fashions are going to be given
first place among the school and
college girls. Among them there is
never any conspicuous leadership in
matters of dress, their decisions
seem to be made entirely by group
concensus. A good plan always is
not to spend the last penny of one's
dress allowance at first. but to have '
a. little left over ,to use for little
things that may seem advisable
later on. Often one can get a
pretty good idea. of what autumn
fashions are to be favored by ob-
serving what the girls of school and
college age are wearing in mono.
tsins and other cool resorts in
August. The type of sweater. the
mode of wearing a scarf. the sort of
hot most in favor—these,things are
apt to be carried over for the be.
ginning of the school or college
year,
Velour Hats Are Worn
Just at present the felt but which
was so complete :1 favorite when
school closed lastyear. has been
No collcgc girl nonwdays
feels quite. content without
her coat of raccoon or one
of the other rougher, stur-
dier lure, such as natural
muskmt or antelope. The
model hcro built on gener-
ous sport lines is of raccoon
with wide collar and cuffs.
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A costume that will serve for motor wear, for the rougher sort of
outdoor wear and that will withstand the cflcct of rainy and damp
weather consists of knitted turtle mole sweater and strap—around skirt,
both of bright arecn, and a niannish coat of rain-proof grayish areen
covert cloth with a lining of chamois for cold weather buttoned in.
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The cape coat is one o! the novel-
ties for autumn that has already
found favor with school and college
girls who are" smart clothes. This
model to Mac of blue kosha plaided
in red and green.
up—to-dato school girl for her hair
is probably bobbed and shingled and
has neither not nor pins to be dis-
turbed by the process. A toes of
the head and the hair is back in
condition again.
Smooth or Wavy?
Especially important it seems in
the school girl to have hair that
remains neat despite rather harsh
treatment. So she rushes up her
mind, usually, to have either very
smooth and straight locks or to
have wavy hair. In the latter case
she has a permanent wave put in at
the beginning of the college or
school year and counts on having
that save her from curling irons or
hairdressers until the following
spring. There will be all that the
permanent wavers can'possibly do
for the next few weeks. getting girls
ready for the opening at schools.
The effect of the summer's outings.
especially where there has been see.
bathing. is to work havoc with
whatever pennanent wave might
have been present when the sum-
mer began. 80 it has become a
custom with women to have their
hair rewaved when autumn comes.
But the smart school girl is very
particular about her wave; it must
be a wide wave and very smooth—
not frizzy and kinky. And the
establishment of the permanent
waver who is reputed to give this
type of smooth wide wave is s
Mecca for discriminating women
nowadays.
Smooth Hair Very Smooth
It you don't go in for wavy hair
then you must have hair that is as
smooth as smooth can be. It can
be rendered more glossy and
smoother by refills: brushini. It is
not allowed to fly about after it is.
washed. but. is encased in I; loose
net-While the dryer is applied,- and
it may be that one or these note is
also worn at night to keepdhe per»
fectly smooth lock-strum gottingout
of place. ' ‘
With hair so trained or so waved
.1 girl can don or dot! I close-fitting
hat with ease and comfort and can
slip into or out of s. turtle-neck
sweater with all the unconcern of a
young man.
These turtle-necked sweaters have
been the cause of a revival of inter-
est. in hand knitting this summer.
To be sure. there are machine-made
sweaters of the turtle-neck variety.
but the hand-knitted sort are most
attractive, .
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