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Show Tricks for Teens By Nancv Peooer PETTICOAT PROTEST There we go again the girls introducing in-troducing a new fashion and the boys giving it the, well-known Bronx cheer. We're referring re-ferring to the new P.H.D. society (Petticoats Hanging Hang-ing Down) and to the caustic comments that are being made by your best friends and severest se-verest critics. Petticoats have made the front pages of your high school papers, just as your long Gibson skirts did last season. But not even the ridicule of your favorite favor-ite three-letter man can shake your belief in them. CAN-CAN COMMOTION Instead of lifting your cotton skirt demurely at one side with a pin or petticoat peeper, you sew a little buttonhole loop to the center back, at the edge of the hem, and sew on a button but-ton at the center back of the waistband. waist-band. Then you can button up your skirt in back to form a cancan can-can bustle and to reveal your con- trasting petticoat beneath. It's a smart trick to play with a black cotton ruffled skirt over a striped or plaid cotton petticoat. WELCOME RELIEF You teenagers teen-agers who must wear uniforms to school have welcomed petticoats as a means of breaking the monotony without breaking the rules. Before and after hours you can pull down your petticoat so that your ruffles show beneath your uniform hemline. hem-line. During school you tuck your petticoat out of sight. So far, we haven't heard about any petticoat protests from the faculty. PEGGED PETTICOATS So you thought that petticoats were pretty only with your ballerina skirts, did you? Then you haven't seen them peeping between the side slits of those straight and narrow pegged skirts to which so many girls still cling and vice-versa, which cling to so many girls. If your pegged skirts are too short, let your petticoat petti-coat ruffles hang down below about an inch. CONVERTIBLE PETTICOATS Some petticoats are made to serve a double purpose. For instance, a pastel cotton petticoat with double hemline ruffles of eyelet, comes with its detachable cummerbund belt. Without the cummerbund, you wear it as a petticoat under another skirt. With the cummerbund, cummer-bund, you top it with a peasant blouse and wear it as a skirt. It's a good idea for;those of you who are making their own petticoat, and, judging from the reports of home ec teachers, lots of you are. Now, that you've revived petticoats petti-coats and camisoles, will you be saying "twenty three skidoo" instead in-stead of "scram" and "I love my wife, but, oh, you kid!" Instead of "hubba, hubba?" , They Started On the Screen. So many of your customs and fads start with the movies. Why that Peter Lawford-June Allyson lesson scene from "Good News" has even inspired you to do your French homework these nights! Has your crowd adooted this movie-made movie-made idea yet? YOUR NEW DANCE It's that oldie, the Charleston ever since you saw it danced in "Good News." Bet your parents could give you some fine points on it. Bet they could show you the cups the? won in Charleston contests back in the days when Joan Crawford scintillated scintil-lated more than she suffered. YOUR NEW CUSTOM Since you've seen -'Captain from Castile," you've revived the custom of giving a handkerchief to your T-man (top man) as a keepsake. He keeps it in his jacket pocket for show not for blow. NEW HAIR-DO The short cut with bangs, as Eleanor Parker wore in "Voice of the Turtle" is sweeping through the high school halls these days. But do any of your upper classmen try to look like Ronald Reagen? |