Evening star., 1932-04-24
BY MARY MARSHALL.


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7 often repeated 10 girls
~ brought up in late Victo-
rian days. It applied to
what daughter wore no less than to
what she ate. Mother, Of course, drank
tea and cofIee-daughter was assured
that these things would keep her from
growing tall or make her cheeks pale
and sallow. Mother ate sweets between
meals and came to the table with o
canary bird appetite. Daughter was
expected to do justice to three meals
a day and forego the between-meal
snacks Moreover, mother wore corsets
tightly laced, which were not allowed
daughter until she had become young
lady Mother wore trailing skirts and
high-boned collars in the daytime and
loW-cut dresses in the evening. frivoli
ties denied to the growing daughter.
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NOWADAYS. to be sure, We set up
dietary restrictions for our children
which We do not usually follow our
selves and We realize that an active
growing girl needs more OF the simple,
wholesome foods than we do. But when
it comes to clothes there are very few
OF the old.time differences between
what mother wears and what she per-
mits her younger daughter Not be-
cause the younger girls are dressing
more like adults, but because OF the
more youthful character OF Wonen's
clothes.
The similarity between little-girl
clothes and adult clothes was more ap-
parent perhaps during the era Of very
short skirts and curveleSs silhouettes,
"a nat
more shapely contours for women at
the present time, the similarity between
daughter and mother fashions this sea
son is more evident than ever before,
Or at least more evident than 1t has
been since the days - 100 years and
more ago-when clothes for boys and
girls were actual replicas Of the uncom-
Portable and restricting, often highly
picturesque, clothes worn by their
elders.
IN Paris more has been said about
\ the youthful quality OF women's
fashions this season than in this coun-
try, possibly because in Paris at the
| present time there is a very strong
| feeling in favor of the simpler type
| OF clothes for women. The more ornate
and more complicated fashions in hats,
| dresses and wraps devised by ingenious
| French mllliners and dressmakers have
undoubtedly met with greater approval
on this side Of the Atlantic than In
| France.
The Paris fashion reporter draws at
tentlon 10 the various fashions for
women that are suitable for clothes for
younger girls; simple design of skirts,
hanging from a normal or slightly
raised waist line, high waisted effects,
short puffed or cap sleeves, simple
higher neck lines for daytime wear,
shoulder capelets and simple neck lines
with a higher decolletage for day
time wear. There is a boarding school
simplicity about many OF the smartest
Women's dresses this season. giriish-
ness achieved not by affected demure-
ness, but by simplicity and dignity Of
design.
Fashionable fabrics of the season are
also of a youthful sort - lirhtweight
woolens, semi-sheer silk crepes of soft
texture and dull surface. Figures are
small ana restrained and not too strik-
Ing. Simple stripes, small checks and
oo0 all nave youthful effect.
CKIRT lengths, obviously, vary with
age. The shorter the daughter, ap-
parently, the shorter the skirt, so that
the little mite OF 8 or I wears a skirt
that terminates two or three inches
above the knees. The petite girl Of I
or . may continue to wear very short
skirts, but II she is one of the lanky
tall for her age" members of the fam
lily she will undoubtedly look better with
a somewhat lowered hem line. BY 8
or 10 skirts are long enough to cover
the knees. BY II or IL o gradual
lengthenns OF skirt begins so that the
girl Of 10 or II usually wears dresses
as long as her mothers for street
somewhat shorter skirts for sports. with
ankle-length skirts for her hrst simpls
dance and dinner dresses.
For the very little girl skirts usually