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Show Tricks for Teens By Nancy Pepper PETTICOAT PROTEST There we go again the girls introducing in-troducing a new fashion and the boys giving it the well-known Bronx -v $v cheer. We're re- T1 rrfTteL ferring to the new J" j $w& P.H.D. society SXJ Nliffr (Petticoats Hang- I fl lng Down) and I Jjfcx to the caustic I J y comments that i ( mfM are being made i yftJ by your best .H rrr friends and s e - Lv 11 verest critics. x ' 0 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 f smart trick to play with a blacl cotton ruffled skirt over a stripe or plaid cotton petticoat. WELCOME RELIEF You teen agers who must wear uniforms t school have welcomed petticoats a a means of breaking the monoton without breaking the rules. Befor and after hours you can 'pull dow your petticoat so that your ruffle show beneath your uniform hen line. During school you tuck you petticoat out of sight. So far, w haven't heard about any petticoa protests from the faculty. PEGGED PETTICOATS So yo thought that petticoats were prett only with your ballerina skirts, di you? Then you haven't seen thei peeping between the side slits those straight and narrow pegge skirts to which so many girls sti cling and vice-versa, which clin to so many girls. If your pegge skirts are too short, let your pett coat ruffles hang down below abou an inch. CONVERTIBLE PETTICOATS-Some PETTICOATS-Some petticoats are made to serv-a serv-a double purpose. For instance a pastel cotton petticoat with doubl hemline ruffles of eyelet, come with its detachable cummerbun belt. Without the cummerbund you wear it as a petticoat undei another skirt. With the cummer bund, you top it with a peasan-blouse peasan-blouse and wear it as a skirt. Iff a good idea for those of you wh( are making their own petticoat and, judging from the reports ol home ec teachers, lots of you are Now, that you've revived petti coats and camisoles, will you be saying "twenty three skidoo" in stead of "scram" and "I love my wife, but, oh, you kidl" instead oi "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 adorned this movie-made movie-made idea yet? YOUR NEW DANCE It's thai oldie, the Charleston ever since you saw it danced in "Good News." Bet your parents could give you some fine points cn it. Bet they could show you the cups they wor in Charleston contests back in the days when Joan Crawford scintil lated more than she suffered. YOUR NEW CUSTOM Since you've seen -'Captain from Castile,' you've revived the custom of givinf a handkerchief to your T-man (tor man) as a keepsake. He keeps il in his jacket pocket for show noi for blow. NEW HAIR-DO The short cu with bangs, as Eleanor Parkei wore in "Voice of the Turtle" i: sweeping through the high schoo halls these days. But do any o your upper classmen try to looi like Ronald Reagen? |