The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-25
The Flapper Rules

Youngsters who try to look like Mary Pickford are often used as mannequins. but they have not been a success, because the 16-year-older doesn't wish to look like Mary Pick ford. She wouldn't be caught with curls down her back, a sweet smile ana chubby legs below a short skirt.
 She often produces the most ex- treme fashions, which her older sis- ter and her mother copy. She is the type, one might claim, for all the fashions of the civilized world today. That's sweeping statement, but it IS nevertheless true.
 The bobbed hair, the short skirt, the round neck, the baby sleeves, the sashes, the button-down-the-ba back frocks, the short coats-these are the fashions that have ruled the world and have begun in the schoolroom, says the New York Sun.
 The youngster of 16 chooses ma- teriaIs for her own clothes that are the same as those worn by her eld- CTS. whom she envies little these days. because she rules a world of her own that every one acknowledges She doesn't have to dress herself up in long clothes and high headdresses and play that she Is old. She has been know to grudgingly loan some of her clothes to her young married sister for an especially smart affair. She likes georgette crepe for her evening gowns and therefore she wears a good deal of 1t. Velveteen has found her approval, and she or ders school frocks and afternoon dance frocks in it.
 She has g. tailored suit which was especially designed for her Judgment and which she accepted. It has a 1 coat that covers her hips, is cut on a | straight line with a slight flare cut at the back, and does not fasten. She | ties it at the neck with a stiff cravat 1 made of ribbon, peItry, Chinese bro- cade, or the material of the coat. She | may have six or eight of these era | bats in her bureau drawer, or she | hangs them on the electric light at 1 the side of the bureau, in imitation of l her brother.
 | She likes her coat unfastened, for 1 she never admits that she Is cold. | She has just escaped he hardening l process Of bare legs, bare arms and a. cold nursery. The winter has no terrors for her and she dresses as she wishes, no matter what the thermom- | eter.
 Therefore she adopts this new coat 1 for the early spring, and she usually wears it without furs. Sometimes it is
 battlemented at the hem, and then il
 is more definitely Cromwellian and
 after the manner of the Stuarts. She
 likes both edges of this coat trim
 med with glittering buttons of brass
 or silver, and they are arranged in
 any way her fancy dictates.
 She has taken a recent fancy to tan
 covert cloth, leaving the debatable
 velours de laine, duvetyn and othe, 1 materials with a perishable nap tc | her elders. She has her suit in tIss
 natural color of covert cloth, and get: 'brilliancy by her blouse and era. vat.
 White blouses do not suit hei fancy; she has them in French blue
 which all the regiments of youns
 girls adore with the emotionalfsn
 they give to anything they like. She
 also has blouses of tomato red anc
 jonquil yellow. They are made O.
 heavy silk or batiste, tucked and frill.
 ed.
 The "fapper' who Is tall eneugf
 to carry a big fox around her necl is sure to come into possession O
 one. When her judgment goes agains a big animal she chooses instead . i coachman's collar Of seaIskin n squirrel. which rises about her fac like the calyx of a flower and sprea d
 downward over her shoulders, hug ging them in the fiat Victorian man ner.