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Show Grade School Dresses Rated High for Style, Washabilit) When you see some of the new school dresses, you'll find it hard to believe that most of them are cotton. cot-ton. Styled to look like wool or silk they're elegant in appearance, yet can whirl through the washer. Stripes have a fresh crisp look in wovens, denims and print corduroys. cordu-roys. There are regimentals (influence (in-fluence of the recent Coronation), slubbed effects and dobbies. Since many of the striped colorings color-ings have a subdued heather appearance ap-pearance or team black and color, white is a brightening accent on back-to-school cottons. It may be a dickey or vestee eSect, a turtle-neck turtle-neck collar in knit or a pretty scalloped scal-loped collar in angora. The tweedy winter cotton in homespun patterns and donegals is being done in some excellent jumper dresses. A wool or cotton ; jersey blouse will emphasize the I tailored air, a daintily ruffled nylon will lend a party air. Soft shirtwaist and sweater look dresses in varied fabrics are ideal L for school. Many of them with : their collar and cuff treatments ; are feminine versions of the current cur-rent shirt trends in menswear. Pockets run rife over bodices am skirts, the more the merrier. Many of the one-piece dresses ar styled with a two-piece shirt am skirt look. Self or leather belt have practically replaced the tie back sash on tailored dresses Skirts remain full and look mos-becoming mos-becoming when worn over a oris skirted slip or petticoat. Dress "plus" ideas are a hapK choice for back to school as the; extend the lifeline of a fashion There are sweaters trimmed v match cotton dresses. Jackets B corduroy, cotton knit and Je: top dresses in matching or con trasting fabrics. Wesklts ove dresses are popular classmates. In the softer silhouettes, fasnra seems to be harking back to Edwardian era. Grade schooler will look charming in skirts w apron backs, little bustles, pw pleats. Shirring at the bodWO hipline often emphasizes the pre &iThe fabric may be a pastel i print or one of the Orion or vM and cotton blends. A dress outfit in nylon or Orion Is not "; extravagance. |