| Show SCHOOL GIRLS DRESS Ideas of a FuslUoimlle New York Principal Not long ago in talking with the principal prin-cipal of a large boarding school a woman noted among mothers for her reliable good sense I was much interested In what she said of the drecc > of school girls Any girl slit ought to be just J S S L S I l I 1jJ h SERGE AND SILK I as well dressed as the other girls or she lt be more uncomfortable than Yf he were clad In gossamer in December No one is more sensitive in feeling than a girl at the very age she is usually sent to school A feeling of not being equally situated in school is a humiliation which will burn into her tender and unsophisticated unsophisti-cated nature I thiilk parents have aright a-right to inform themselves concerning the standard of drebsing in different schools and ought to place their daughters according ac-cording to their means Mine is called a fashionable school though it is not the ultra fashionable one laMiion submits to suitability as tar as mothers will permit i hI always advise two good school dresses like serge and a bilk waist or two to make a change one or two pretty Bummer silks or little house dresses for Friday evnings when their friends call It is a good plan to use last summers liZs t i rtetr ve i light silks and white organdies for evening even-ing dresses in school They can be nn J ished up with a few ribbons and new 751jm S I L 4 I 1i S l V 1 L I C I IJ I A I TRREB TASTEFri GOWNS yokes and neck bands and belts to looker look-er fresh and sweet We dine at half roust six and the girls usually change their dresses and freshen up a little for dinner and the evening in the sitting room I encourage them to do so Of course they must have a good coat and quiet hats I insist upon quiet hats The underclothes are an individual I matter but I advise the girls to wear simple l things amid in siac quite insist upon I it still many of the girls have nightdresses night-dresses quite as elaborate as wrappers SCHOOL FROCKS FOR YOUNGEST j GiRLS The dressing as I saw it struck me as I iv S S S e READY FOR THE 11 AlI EE I very creditable school girls wear in city or village for any station in life I A little miss of 8 wore one of the many mixed novelty cloths the shoulder ruffles were of the same cloth edged around as were the belt and cuffs with fancy silk braid Little dresses in this style may be bought ready made at a childrens outfitters out-fitters for atout SS but of course can pen pe-n ore cheaply made at home Another pretty school frock worn vms made of dark green hopsaking with a square of fancy silk l silk yoke braid I outlined The dress with a was flat frilled band ito i-to the yoke and belted with a belt edged I t with a narrow braid to match the yoke trimming The dresses for children of this age come just below the knee Black stockings stock-ings and spring heeled shoes are usually selected for very young girls Another frock very suitable indeed for school wear was of novelty hopsacknsj with a square yolk of plaid silk with a deep ruffle all around of the hopsackmg the yoke outlined with a fancy plaid braid and the cuffs and belt of plajd silk edged with the braid This is a very pretty childs dress and suitable for a girl of six years FOR OLDER GIRLS An attractive Empire dress for a schoolgirl school-girl as old as 16 years is made of soft wool goods with no trimmings but rullles of the same It is particularly good as no stays are worn and it fits the figure gracefully I noticed that the older girls inclined to stylishly made serge dresses with jackets and silk fronts One of the prettiest girls had on a dark serge skirt and a waist of magenta silk very simply niads Her hair was parted and rolled back from the tEmples with one tiny curl on the forehead fore-head Another dressed for going out with her chaperons to a matinee wore a novelty suiting of mi ed red brown and green with a wide scarf of green silk kinotted around the waist in front and the front of the bodice laid in pleats with green silk which finished on the breast with cravat boos of the same silk A charming damsel who in two years will make her bow in sicety wore a simple gown down to the school dinner made of an inexpensive silk of a soft green shade dotted with black pin points with a shoulder yoke and frill of a pretty but not costly lace and a deep green velvet vel-vet collar band and belt A Friday night receiving dress was of plain soft crimson silk skirt and sleeves with a jet banded corsage and full yoke ending in a soft full ruche at the throat all of black chiffon It was very handsome but not so costly as the schoolroom school-room serge It depended on its colors did It tone was quite fashion evident down that to this suitability principal While there I heard one mother make application for her daughter > who was very pretty rather pert and who sat quite stiffly in a black tailor suit with a crimson velvet neckband anda dashing hat with feathers Her mother rcmarkeJ Ve live in Hrooklyn but I Would rather put Edith in as a regular boarder for F cannot niaka her learn anything at home She is sixteen six-teen No seventeen mamma interrupted inter-rupted the young larrl1d I think she will learn a good many things here that she will never learn at home Can you work said the serious principal prin-cipal Work how said the halffle < red society so-ciety bud S Work seriously at your books Oh but I only want to study music and French The teacher tried to win the girls confidence con-fidence and waken a little enthusiasm and I heard her say as I left Oh you must not say you have beui out at all unless you are really out Ve dont consider it good form for a girl to go toT to-T > of any kind until she has finished her studies I lie crestfallen look o the progressive little girl from Brooklyn who had just rtated that she was out was funny I I was sure she was to he put in a very good school to repress nor social tendencies JEANNETTE HALE I |
