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Show Fad-Happy Teensters Switch To Co-ordinated Fashion Look Choosing Two or Three Basic Costumes Will Get Them Off to Right Start for School Year p'ASHION is giving this year's high school girl a wonderful break, stylewise and budget wise, too, for teen clothes are moving definitely toward the pretty costume look for 1953. Smart youngsters are agreeing with mother that it's better to have two or three complete costumes that can be varied with a theme in mind, than drawers full of odds and ends from which to try to mix-match mix-match a fetching look. Yes, the fad-happy girl has switched to wise basic selections in a smart, coordinated fashion look that needn't be discarded every season. And she saves enough to buy clothes of better wearability. This year fashion helps her choice. Whole costumes are designed to match exactly in their parts or in shades and fabrics closely allied. Let us say she needs a suit with accessories, ac-cessories, a dress with jacket and a jumper ensemble to begin her year. Take to start, the suit, which may be picked in one of the colorful color-ful nubby tweeds. With this she may find a jersey blouse, already dyed to match one sparkling tone, and a sweater of a color to unify the costume. Weskits, an idea sneaked from big. brother, can be added, to be worn like an Edwardian with the suit, as a separate blouse with the skirt or to make an ensemble of skirt, blouse and weskit. Her dresses find themselves with new companions: Tiny jackets standing several inches above the waist or pulled in at the belt-line, and short, delicately woven matching match-ing sweaters. Under the cover she may have a casual for class or a sleeveless dress with lots of party possibilities. Covered up,- the costume cos-tume Is a neat, trim suit for movie dates or football games Sometimes skirt and blouse in tweed, plaid or pattern make a whole dress look, which can be subdivided sub-divided and assembled many different dif-ferent ways. Jumpers leap ahead with new ideas for the teen. Wide-skirted corduroys, rich and soft as velvets, often printed, come with matching turtle necks to set inside the scoop. These snap out to make a pretty dancing dress with jewelry or can be switched with bibs and blouses. For the biggest variation, there's a menswear flannel halter effect jumper with a soft, fitted jacket. Add a blouse and possibilities' are urilimited. Other double-ups are dresses mated to a jumper that can be worn right over it. All in all, Miss Teen-Ager is a new girl this year. You may recognize the face, but the tomboy tom-boy is no more. In her place is a prettier, more feminine girl who takes her. place with poise in her own young world. |