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Show FARM NOTES i BY GOLDEN L. STOKER Beaver County A Kent Clothes Present Problem When Sehoul Starts Back to school! What a rush at yardage counters and clothing departments. Mothers and daughters daugh-ters arc deciding many of the questions ques-tions of the school wardrobe. "What shall we choose?" "Shall we buy ready made or make it at home?" These and many other important im-portant questions are at hand. Do not rush to the store too quickly. There are some preliminaries prelimi-naries which each thrifty mother and daughter should consider together to-gether before they start shopping. All clothing worn last year should be carefully gone over to determine deter-mine what articles are still wearable wear-able with cleaning, pressing and fixing. Other materials new or used on hand may be made into suitable garments without purchases. pur-chases. A list is then made of th( needed clothing to be purchased. With this information we are much more intelligent shoppers and are more likely to buy intelligently intel-ligently than emotionally. We not only save time for ourselves but also the clerk who is to help us. Consider the wardrobe as a unit and teach the school girl to select clothes for an ensemble rather than selecting at random. The ensemble en-semble which is too obviously matched is also uninteresting, but a wardrobe planned around the coat, with possibly a matching hat to harmonize with contrasting dresses, is a good combination. To find out what type of clothes girls like best for school, one large department store tried an interesting inter-esting experiment. A jury of girls ranging from 5 to 16 years of age was chosen. The choice was made at random from the customers of this store. All types of clothing were displayed and the girls allowed allow-ed to choose the clothing they liked best. The choice ran almost unanimously unani-mously to tailored clothes, simple sim-ple dresses and coats, country clothes and tweeds. Sport shoes with flat heels were chosen instead of street shoes and slippers. Plain colors instead of checks and stripes or fancy patterns were selected for skirts. The basis upon which they made their selection was that they wished wish-ed clsthes which make a good appearance ap-pearance but which did not interfere inter-fere with their freedom or comfort, and were easy to get into. The young girl of this age who is beginning to take her place in a highly competitive social syjtem takes her clothes very seriously and is supersensitive to criticism. For this reason she must be simply and smartly, but not too differently, different-ly, dressed. o |