Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-01-21
Graceful Tunc Effects With the Wide, Low Placed
Russian Belt - Bright Embroideries, Roman
Striped and Plaid Ribbons Add the Girlish
Note To Dark Fabrics - Dancing Frocks.

80 + most fascinating spot in the
n big department store is the
"a misses department.. So smart
~ and SO fetching are the styles
there depicted. in coats, In tsilleurs.
IN dainty dancing dresses and in prac-
teal dresses of serge for everyday
wear, that it is no wonder small
women-who can get into 80 or "a
size-shop there in preference to
women's departments where models
are not nearly as chic and attractive
at the price.
The chief reason for this Is that all
misses clothes are youthful in style
whereas the manufactured garments
for women must cover a range OF sizes
from 32 or "a bust measure up to the
large a. measurem emit, and as 1t would
be rather absurd to incorporate girl
ish, dashing style into "A model
and since every model for women de.
signed must be turned out in the reg
ular range OF women's sizes-styles
must necessarily be moderated and
kept from extremes. SO the lucky
small woman" who can carry Off
fetchingly youthful styles, HES her
Hleefully to the misses department.
and Is the envy OF her more weighty
sistera
Few mothers Of young girls nova
days care to attempt making youthful
frocks IN the home sewing room, so
attractive and 30 low priced are the
manufacturers models shown In the
shops. And when II comes to a ques-
ton OF economy II one counts the
price OF materials. trimmings. pat
terms, a dressmakers or seamStreSs'
pay. and the time spent running
around matching materials, the ready
made frock 10 usually the more eco
nomical Investment. And the styles
of these manufactured frocks are In
Variably far smarter than could be
achieved in the home sewing room
Expert designers are employed to sup
ply models and many of the ideas in
corporated into simple. inexpensive lit
tie dresses are Paris inspired; for the
high priced designer makes regular
trips to Europe after inspiration in
lines, trimming motifs and color com
hinations.
Special Care Taken OF the Flapper.
In most misses departments moth
ers find that garments for little girls
range, from six to fourteen year
sizes. Garments for misses range
from sixteen to eighteen years
Between come the happer sizes--or AS
they are usually called in America, the
Junior sizes, ranging from thirteen 70
seventeen years. These flapper sizes
cover the awkward age of girlhood
the age when pretty little girlhood
with its dimples and its curls has beer
left behind, and slender young woman
hood Is not yet in sight. The fiappei
is long-legged. scrawny of neck ant
forearm. Her hair il not pretty
length. She Is getting her secont
teeth-and very likely having then
Strengthened by some dishg uring den
tai process She Is too big" to wea
tricksy babyish things and not bit
enough to don anything coquettish
This age used 10 be the "let down
period of girlhood when the poor lit
tie fiapper was always to be seen ii
n frock recently let down, or Just a hi
too short wasted or too brief in tn
sleeves; but all this has been change'
since the shops take special care @
the happer and provide for her grow
Ing figure frocks designed to make he