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Show Junior And 'Teen Each Have Their Own Fashion Trends Designed For Their Years And Figures, Young Clothes Favor Unsophisticated FreshnessFor Spring Styles not too sophisticated, but with a pert freshness and individuality indi-viduality that teen girls love are in the dresses of cotton, rayon, woolens wool-ens which make up the Spring fashion picture for the young crowd. There's the lumber-jerkin, a novelty, sleeveless sports dress combining com-bining the features of the lumber jacket and the jerkin, to be worn with crisp blouse, sweater, tailored shirt or knit cotton slipover. Its appeal is great in checked woolens, herringbone tweeds, plaid or striped cottons. High colors and woven plaids are the thing in cottons, new details in styling adding to their effectiveness. Pert peplums, eyelet embroidery, draw string necklines with colored ribbons to provide contrast, new cap sleeves, use of diagonal pockets are detail devices employed. One and two-piece collarless dresses of striped chambray with eyelet trimming in ruffles, tiny yokes or neckline insets vie with checked and plaid ginghams in ice cream colors trimmed with scalloped collars, cuffs and pocket flaps in white pique, and pleated skirts. . patch pockets on short, flared toppers. top-pers. Reefers broadened at the shoulders and tapered at the waistline waist-line by use of braid trimming, repeated re-peated on the military color, are very trim looking with silver button but-ton closing. Chesterfield toppers in tweeds and soft woolens still are popular, and the belted tunic topper with high breast pockets, borrowed from the older girl, is extremely flattering to the young figure. With career girl and school girl alike the practical, collarless cardigan car-digan suit with flap pockets and pleated skirt, worn with a companion com-panion topper, is easily the number num-ber one hit in the Spring fashion parade. Wholly charming is a navy and white checked suit with bright colored companion topper tossed over it. Plain colors with matching topper and large decorative deco-rative buttons, and a plain jacket bound with a checked fabric to match skirt and topcoat are smart. Worsted gabardine, Shetland type woolens, melton cloth and fleeces are favored fabrics. For the Junior sophisticate's important dates are many novelty designs including variations of the peplum dress. Most often peplums are at the front, the back remaining remain-ing slim and smooth. Checked taffeta taf-feta with a perky front peplum trimmed in ric-rac braid has an accompanying bolero fitted snugly snug-ly into the waist to give a one-piece one-piece look. Navy sheers with grosgrain trimming the peplum, neckline and belt are very chic looking. Even the popular print suit dress looks new and more sophisticated this year with a deep shirred peplum, and a rayon shantung print becomes very dressy dres-sy when trimmed with black lace enlivened with a front slit peplum. pep-lum. Swing Into Spring . . . Short flared toppers with plenty plen-ty of swing from the shoulders, boxy coats and reefers make fashion fash-ion news for teeners, with colors as varied as the rainbow's. Radiant Rad-iant pink, lime, yellow, soft blues, American Beauty cocoa tan, Kelly green and Admiralty blue are seen in profusion. Effective for a contrast con-trast is the use of vari-colored lacy knit striped fabroic for facings fac-ings with matching scarf on boxy coats, or swagger in matching color col-or for rounded shoulder yokes or |