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Show There's a New Overall Unity In Clothes for School Child Youngsters Can Be Well Dressed on Budget Soothing Expenditures Without Sacrifice of Quality By BERYL TUCKER Fashion Editor, Parents' Magazine FITTING out the children with clothes they are going to need for going back to school this fall can be a much happier adventure than mnt.hpr pvpr pxnerienr.erl hefore. r " ' Fashion, grown eminently practical in its approach ap-proach to the requirements of youngsters, and with the aid of the "wonder fabric wool" and "miracle fabrics" of the blended variety, and the interesting things that are being done with cottons, cot-tons, offers budget soothing sturdiness, wearability and washability. Furthermore, with a new feeling of overall unity as distinguished from the indiscriminate sepa-rateness sepa-rateness of past seasons, it is much easier to select garment that will look as well in December as now when you see them new. And this can be converted into welcome economy by those who plan the youngster's complete school wardrobe now and Beryl Tucker shop early for it. While sportswear for long has been the backbone of any basic school wardrobe, and continues to be, a stronger trend toward neatness neat-ness that mother will welcome, now dominates the scene. Furthermore, the elegance of English Eng-lish sportwear has come in strongly to influence makers of children's wear. This heralds an end to "sloppiness" and yet does not mean a "sissified era." Trends Similar The trends are similar for both boys and girls. There are suits for the former, with handsome reversible revers-ible vests, which are complete wardrobes in themselves. Nubby tweeds, textured rayons are among featured fabrics, with vests of corduroy cor-duroy or velveteen. In girls wear, skirt, blouse, weskit wes-kit and Jumper groupings combine interesting fabrics such as tweed and wool jersey, print corduroy and solid cotton, flannels and cotton cot-ton jerseys. Heather tones are being endorsed for both sexes and range from classic clas-sic grays to deep reds. Eich tapestry tap-estry effects in print corduroy are being used for boys' vests, for girls' skirts. Soft flannel finish shirts for boys are done in neat patterns, muted shades and team well with corduroy cordu-roy or washable wool slacks. Sweater Sweat-er blouses and blouse-like sweaters give a lady-like look to pleated and flared skirts. Double for Dress Many of the fabrics and styles for fall have been adapted for both boys and girls, so that fashion has become a family affair. Today, regardless re-gardless of income, you can have well-dressed children without sacrificing sac-rificing quality or practicality. Wool coatings for fall are so handsome in fabric alone that a back-to-school coat can easily double for dress-up. The "fur look" coat in zibelines and fleeces sparkles in rosy reds and vibrant blues. Well-mannered tweeds with colorful col-orful nubs, a soft texture, are popular pop-ular for boys and girls. They're styled with raglan shoulders, leath-' leath-' er trim. Silhouette for Girl Camel's hair has returned to the young fashion scene and might be worn by both brother and sister. Look for it in one of the new honey shades. The loose coat, sometimes with back or side belts, is the important silhouette for girls. It is especially ; good for the plump miss. |
