Evening star., 1925-01-11

colleges where this fad seems not to
exist.
Fur coats. however, seem to be the
desideratum of every girl who goes
without cne to college where cold
weather comes in Winter. Frankly,
every girl who can afford a fur coat
has one. There may be exceptions
but they are few and far between.
Here again intrinsic value of the fur
has little weight with the college
girl. ] am sure that most girls at
college would really prefer to appear
on the campus in a raccoon or natural
muskrat coat rather than wearing the
most perfectly blended mink or seal
skin coat. And when the college girls
mother or father realizes that the
daughter will wear her sport raccoon
or muskrat coat for almost every
occasion when the weather permits,
that she Will usually make it do for
an evening coat and that she Will
wear 1t several seasons If need be,
then the fact that 1T costs somewhat
more than cloth coat to begin with
Is of less weight.
The college girl wears an artificial
flower on the lapel of her fur coat.
In fact, she Is rather particular about
this "Gardenias were quite the
thing" said one smartly dressed col
lege girl "but they have been rather
overdone. Carnations are newer
All of which goes to- show that
liberal education need not keep u
woman blinded to caprices OF Paris.
During the holiday season 1t was
considered appropriate to wear a red
flower, perhaps a poinsettia or
sprig of holly. Possibly with the
coming of Spring, violets and other
flowers that smack of April will be
chosen. But in this matter of flowers
for ones lapel the college girl al
lows herself considerable freedom.
She may express something OF her
personality in the sort of flower she
wears. Or she may vary her flower
with her mood.
DENEATH the fur coat probably the
- majority of we'll dressed college
girls wear a one-piece flannel frock,
which is given an air of neatness
and smartness by the little washable
collars and sometimes cuffs that are
worn with It. The fastidious girl is
very particular about this detail. The
flannel frock may be of solid color,
though any girl will tell you that up
and down stripes are very smart just
now Though the two-ptece sport
frock, consisting OF skirt and slip-on
jumper, Is to be found. 1t lags far
behind the one-piece flannel frock.
So, too, the costume consisting of
separate skirt, shirt and slip-on
sweater seems much less worn this
year than in years recently gone by.
However, the thin knotted wool slip
ons, known as crickets, have their
admirers.
The turtle-neck sweater now
comes to give new interest in this
type of garment and il is already as
suming Importance for Winter sports
| worn beneath the huntsman's jacket
or the sheep-lined coat. So, too, is
it worn on cold, rainy days to give
warmth enough under the slicker or
oilskin. For no matter how cold II
10, the college girl wears her slicker
II there is any excuse for so doing.
The attitude of the college girl to-
ward evening frocks seems to be that
while she wishes to wear what is
conservative enough to be in good
taste. she certainly does not want
anything to be so super-conservatiVe
as to lack pep" Like most young
women, her one requirement OF an
evening frock is that she can have a
good time while wearing IT. Hence
il must be becoming, youthful and
enough like what the other girls of
her set are wearing to prevent any
sort of unpleasant or amused COM
ment So she avoids the extremes Of
fashion that are contrived by ingeni-
Gus designers to tempt women of
more stated taste.
The skirt Of the dance frock is
short, but not too short. At one of
the women's colleges the glee club
lays down for its members the rule
that on concert nights they must
wear frocks 10 inches from the
ground. no more, no less. They must
be simple. of fairly straight line and
in pastel tones, and there must be