Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-26

yes, youth has its tragedies, even
though we look at them through the
large end of the telescope.
These might be called reflections of
the chaperon. No older woman
watches her young disport themselves
through the Christmas gayety with
out thinking much OF the acute diff
ferences between the girl and the
woman.
Tho real thing that the older
woman finds herself thinking about,
however. Is the clothes that the young
must wear. This Is no problem that
is out by a single thought. It is
tangled rope. covered with knots that
must be disentangled.
You see, youth takes it's clothes
quite seriously. It il no longer rele-
gated to the wearing Of muslin and
sashes. No one can 60 into a modern
girls without realizing that they are
tho leaders. not the followers, I'm cur
rent fashions.
The designers Of the fashions Of the
hour take young girls as their ideal
Does any one see clothes that are in
vented Tor the woman of fifty years
old? Has this type been in the back
or tho front Of the mind Of dressmak-
ers for eight years? Aren't all her
clothes adaptations and notifications
Of what is invented for a slim young
thing who looks the world straight in
David looked at Goliath?
This Is subject that brings out too
much peevtshness to start on Sunday
morning. The world Of women has
CONSENTED to regard the schoolgirl as
the type which stands for all fashion.
Tho rest IN n Ynakashfft
No wonder the youngster homo for
her holidays puts herself forward as
. victor and speaks as one having
authority. The choice of clothes is
spread before her as the wares Of
India are thrown at the tourists in
the baxaars of Delhi. And this young
thing has strong ideas on what she
wants to choose. She Is less easily
fooled than her mother. Sho looks
with pure arrogance over the heads
through the speech. This is the fash
ion," the shibboleth of the shops
This is the chance for the immature
to play at maturity. for the inexperi-
enced to play at sophistication. The
schoolroom is banished. The ball
Every young girl realizes that during
this fortnight she has a chance to
take q hand in that game Of all games
for Women-society.
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She has the acute perception to
know that the right clothes are the
foundation stone of building herself
| up into an attractive and popular
young lady. She Is never SO DUH as
| to let this fact escape her. If she
did not think of it for herself it
would be forced upon her probably
pathetically, by the environment in
which she is thrown. Every other
girl around her will lay stress upon
| clothes, and to the young any sharp
difference between them and their
companions, which reacts to their
disadvantage, is one of the tragedies.
| Possibly this is why the intensive
gayety Of the midwinter holidays
was Invented. It gives the chance
that youth needs to familiarize itself
| with the habits. the mannerisms and
| the values of the immediate future.
| II the young are allowed to go out
| continually during these holidays
they are apt to protect themselves
from blunders, from unhappy hours,
| from encouragement when school
days are over and they take plunge
| into social life.
| II all the clothes are invented for
the young these days, surely the
pleasures Of the hour are theirs also.
Middle age follows as best 1t might
in afternoon dancing. restaurant din
ners. supper dances and sports In the
country.
The young have a definite code of
dress for all these things, and 1t waa
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