The San Francisco call., 1909-06-06
K1OCIAL AMENITIES FOR
70 lBzea THE SCHOOL Girl

= implicitly of dress should be cul-
tivated by a school girl Great
though the temptation may be to
wear the prettiest of frocks and valu-
able trinkets it should be resisted, for
study hours are not the time for them.
School is distinctly a place of business,
FOR acquiring an education, and it is
no better taste TO dress elaborately for
II than it would be to don ones smart
est frock when going out to shop
There are costumes appropriate for a
morning in the shops and others quite
different for afternoon visits. 1t does
not for an instant mean that the street
gown is not pretty and chic, but sim
ply that the whole mode is different.
Precisely the same should be applied
TO school dresses. BY all means should
they be pretty, but their attractiveness
should lie not in trimmings and decora-
uons-but in the lovely quality of the
material used. the cut and the general
smartness with which they are worn.
There is just as much distinction in an
embroidered stiff linen collar as there
IS in one of softest lace. and it is this
effect Of smartness for which a school
girl should strive. In point Of fact she
may look great deal better in a well
cut tailor frock, severely made, than in
a soft chiffon, for the former may suit
her style more There is no more ex-
cuse for being dowdy and wearing "old
things" at school than there would be
for such garments at any other time.
a girl who thinks that elaborate
dressing is necessary to appear well
makes great mistake. and has but to
observe some Of the misses to be seen
any bright day on the avenue. Their
skirts, Of cloth, hang to perfection;
their coats are the newest in cut and
style. Their hats arc smart, IL SIM
pie. and their feet are correctly shod.
They are the perfection of form in tail
oriug, and girl frocked in this fash
. ion emerges triumphant from a com
psrison with another who has gone in
for frills and furbeIows at a time of
day and place where neither is suit
able.
Observant persons are always i'm
pressed by the fact that good breeding
is indicated by little things quite as
much as in large. For example, girl
who is particular and is nice does not
wear shoes run down, even ever so
little, at the heels. She feels, correctly.
that the whole effect Of her general
. smartness is spoiled by this one
little worn and horrid looking
thing, and she does not make
the mistake of thinking that 1T
doesn't show" Unfortunately, this
prevailing DE1ltl COuHECllOu Nllu
many things is responsible for much
carelessness in dressing, and unless a
girls good breeding comes to her res
cue she is likely TO be needless in such
matters. She disregards the mirror
that tells her a slovenly way of putting
on veil ruins the whole hat. and SAL
lies forth contented in knowing that
her suit came from one of the best
taiiors IN town and her hat from a
fashionable milliner. She seems to
think this sufficient TO cover up all
sorts of minor deficiencies. when, in
point Of fact, it is the deficiencies that
are conspicuous and spoil the whole.
1t really can not be called good form
for a girl to wear long pair of soiled
white gloves TO school. thinking her
self smart because the gloves are
white. She is not anything like. so
well turned out as the girl whose
gloves are tan dogskin and fresh, and
if she is well bred in the best sense
she does not need to be told this
Freshness in all the little accessories
can not be given too much Importance.
Even girls who have maids to take
care Of their clothes are sometimes
careless IN this respect. and while it is
not for an instant 10 be said that the
things are not clean. they lack new
ness. A crumpled tie. soft stock