Show IS BUT T LV PICTURE Of F fl O Girls Cannot be Blamed for e. e Dress Standards Sanctioned by Elders Dolly Dale Finds I Childrens Children's Ragging Parties Form Problem I Ifor for School Matrons By DOLLY DALE I f have looked at the dresses worn by some of our high school girls They seemed to presen present a problem to me The classroom seems hardly the place for a fashion show Nevertheless less it is true that you will find In tho classroom extracts here and there of the latest dictates of Dame Fashion With this Idea vaguely in my mind I set out to learn what the matrons at our schools think Those I have talked to do not seem to think the prevailing styles are ideal for the classroom Yet they feel they are powerless Dame Fashion sets the pace and land society so clety follows The younger generation is Just as much at the shrine of FashIon Fashion Fashion Fash Fash- ion as the elders I talked to Mrs Fisher Harris who Is matron at the west side high school Mrs Harris firmly believes that the classroom Is but a reflex of the fashion plate Before classroom dress can be reformed there must be bea a reformation in styles There cannot be two sets of styles one for the classroom and one for the grownups We cannot condemn girls for their style of dress methods of doing their hair dancing and general conduct when they are merely a reflex of general society conditions said Mrs Harris H Home me Help Needed I I do not pot try to supervise the dressing dress ing of ot our girls except in is condi M tl H n nR Whir which rail 1011 loudly lv for attention It sounds absurd to say that school girls come como to school wearing out their I last years year's party dresses but we find tills this only too often But what is to be done In In our efforts to enlist the homo home in a campaign cam earn I to educate girls along the line of simplicity of dress dresse e we we are are only only onty too often encountered with one of two lines of opposition The home homo is either utterly apathetic apathetic apa apa- or hotly resents what is termed interference We Ve gain a better response response response re re- re- re from the girls along this lino than we do 10 from the tho parents i Mrs Harris admits that she is too I handicapped to do the Ule work that she could wish I In every case caso it Is the home to which we should look for aid and In very few cas cash cases s do we gain it U. Too much work i is s put u upon on the h school which should be done in the home and too little encouragement is of ot- otI I Mrs Harris Harris' does not approve the adoption of a uniform dress as a soi so so- solution i lution of the problem I The is is' too expensive for forthe forthe forthe the average home said she It must to lo look k well be of the tho best materials and tailored All this costs too tee much Quite often for a very slight expense the mother can fix over and adjust her own clothes for the girl girl The furthermore contends that the argument usually backing the tho uniform uniform uniform uni uni- form style of dress that it levels class distinctions is absurd Girls can call too easily find some way of making these Ulese conditions if they really exi t known They can have a dozen little touches to their which would impress their less fortunate fortunate fortunate for for- associates of the gulf between them Their shoes their cuffs and collars colars can all be utilized to th pose pose Better Styles Now Our girls I note with Joy continued arc dressing far simply this year rear I cannot give she credit to tho homes It is simp amp matter of style stylo M The plain blue dress idea idea uniform reigns su supreme reme on th t f ion plate The rhe faithful reflex of fashion plate Is the tho schoolroom Skirts are not so short I j do like to see them dragging the gro gre If the girls would wear them to toOt t I would have nothing to toon toon toon on the subject Mrs Fisher would not discuss s modern dance Again it is tb 1 that is to blame 51 I will not condemn the dance J it is a horrible thing to my pain poin view said she What can bo be when the children see seo it every h It reigns supreme In tho the home the stage in the picture simple childish party of or late 1 T P part given with the s sanction o of oC parents I If If we started an any campaign campaign dance reform the children would ply turn a deaf ear They would br brus us as old fogies fogles and let Jet It il g go that i All An the efforts of ot the school school m are directed to the girls girls' forts are made to educate their ta to to the point of oC seeing that their features which are objectionable 1 their own dress and conduct ar arI are arel I as objectionable in the dress dross an and duct of their elders r |