WEEK-END
THE CHINA MAIF SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1958,
WOMANSENSE
The Young
Fashions Styled For
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MISS RENSOR: A spring cout in a Scotch heather mixture wool shows a compromise between tho fitted and the swagger style. A half-belt in front gives the semi-fitted affact.
YOUNGSET BY ALEXON: A fashion-conscious suit sized for the tonnager is similar in stylo to a model in women's sixos, The back fullness of the jacket is held by a buttoned half-bolt. In in a plain wool cloth or a waffle weave.
It
Carolyn
CAROLYN: A light wool Jarsoy dress is for more practical for spring days than a thin dram Over which a jacket must bo worn. This protty style has a ribbed waistline which is easily fitted. The trimming consists of bands of striped jersey
to tono.
CAROLYN: A jumper suit combines the uses of a dress and that of a suit. It can be worn on all occasions on its own or under a coat on really
Carolyn
Miss Rensor
cool spring days. In striped wool Jenny in navy and white or coffee and croam, it has all the sophistication that the teanager langs før, but it is styled and sized for hor age group. MISS RENSOR: The bloused ba k of this suit jacket The is quito in time with today's fashions. fullness is controlled by a bow of the motorial, fino worsted cloth. Tho slim skirt is adjust- able at the waist. A kick pleat allows walking width at the hem.
Teenagers In Spring 1958
By PATRICIA DOUGLAS
Weave woollens in pastels In the Miss Rensor range scooped, are finished with and off-white, and light they show several suits in bands of wool jersey in a weight velours in bright the popular light navy matching stripe. shades, such as royal and worsted. The jackets are
The jumper suits in wool **THE
THE accent is on youth" age ranges is that of short ment is likely, for the time geranium, are the most po- short and only semi-fitted jersey by the same manu-
--this and similar bracelet length sleeven. being, to be larger.
pular choice in materials.
or even straight and the facturer are equally attrac- headlines heralded the Where a Jacket is cropped At DANIEL NEAL,
skirts are slim. Here they tive and not In the MISS RENSOR wisely make most skirta ad- ated. They are very care- too sophistic apring 1958 fashions. But to the top of the hip the line where school outfitting takes in tognage departments the is spoiled when the sleeve is priority, they find that on
range they show an attrac justable at the waist.
fully fitted at the neck and buyers are perplexed; their longer than the hem of the the whole girls at boarding tive coat which is a com-
By MANFIELD MAN- shoulders and are given ad- customers do not want to jacket. "Our customers will school tend to be rather promise between fitted and look young!
not stand for anything but plumper than the same age swagger styles, In Scottish TELS, an inexpensive suit justable semi-fitted waists. a full-length sleeve," sald group at day school. As soon wool in a misty heather with a very modern look in At school a girl wears the director of a well-known as they leave school, whe mixture the coat is cut in a belge canvas weave wool short skirts and a simple suit and cont house. "When ther at 15 or 18, girls be straight style but held to with the look of Jersey. has gym silp. When she is
we show them a model with come figure-conscious and the waist in front by a half- a simple short square cut holiday or leaves school to the shorter sleave the buyers their sizing alters accord- belt tied over the buttons. jacket and slim skirt. become a career girl
Where a girl is still grow- she stipulate that they will only
An edge-to-edge, collarless ingly. wants to look different put down an order if the
coat with turnback sleeves ing fast or her measure- quite different from her old sleeves. are made full
These are all problems in a flecked wool is useful ments change in a matter of self. A longer skirt, length.”
that the buyer of a teenage for slipping over dresses months, she is wise to buy a nipped-in waist, a well-fitted
department has to contend (D. H. EVANS). Sizing in teenage depart with. To these she must add that garment is the style
at ments prosents appeals to her. Those
unother
the fact that half of her Where least have been the guiding great problem. principles to date behind the teenage fashion trude.
flannel.
on
colours
are and fabrica
tan
DUFFLE COATS
separate jacket, and skirt. She may take one size in the jacket and quite a differ- ent one in the skirt to get the best possible fit.
BLAZERS
The blazer type jacket, double broasted and often buttoned with gilt buttons, is the best-seller, In worst-
and natural
Instead of a full-length B young customers want. to coat the young girl often store has a separate show look too grown-up in styles profers a casual coat of the room for this age group the that do anything but fatter duffle variety. This can be merchandise tends to be their immature figures. The worn for sports, with slacks One looks in vain for gay gayer and more
up-to-date little trapeze line suits than when the "teens" are others profer to play safe in and skirts or over a dress carried out in a spring-like merely the top end of the classic styles so long as when necessary. worsted
One children's departments. searches the rails in teenage Bometimes it ta amalga young and gay. departments for middy mated with the small At this time of the year Jumper-suits with short woman's fashions and be the demand is primarily for bolero type juckets
over comes part of the so-called suits and separates. Spring tochage department they they are particularly liked At D.H. Evans in their ed flannel or a light velours, flared skirts, often in a debutante or younger-set coats in lightweight tweeds. worsted wool jersey, that shop. For the 17-year-old and wool cloths are an extra have dufflee in wool fleece in off-white have followed the Paris lend and over, this is often more that only the school-leaver lined with a miniature tar shades; light navy is chosen ao quickly and appear al- satisfactory so long as her is likely to buy.
in wool. This tar by the more sophisticated Those ready in fashion-conscious figure has roached some
tan la cloverly matched in girl (Daniel Noal). stores in adult sizes,
stage of maturity and she
slacks tapered to the ankle. are often worn with pleated "In the last month wo has also developing a fashion
To complete the outfit the skirts. A skirt of flat knife department also stocks pleats is infinitely more fist- have certainly sold more box senso,
BAIRNS WEAR pure wool toring for the "hippy" Ogure Jacket suits than ever be-
The young fashion is for jumpers and button-through of the average teenager. In the straight coat buttoned cardigans in special toens" a worsted" clath the pleate to the neckline which may sizes. Though fully fashion, are perfectly durable. have a doop choirboy collar, ed these garmento aro still Until she can wear her The younger and smaller Fitted coats, which are dill reasonably priced. but summer holiday dresses, the teenager now has the choice teenager has dificulty in cult to adjust on differing boing fitted if clothes are sizes (and impossible to ad- ALEXON In thoir of charming styles in wedl not sized to her different just to keep pace with grow. YOUNGBET range have Jersey, CAROLYN, who have proportions. She cannot be ing), are still occasionally some pretty suits in a waiño the prettiest range of young classified, under the usual naked for (so often by the weave wool in pastel shaded stylin, show three variations bust, waist and hip mea plump girl in the mistaken of pink, turquoiss and cream, of these dresses with slight- aurémonta. She la shorter idea that by wearing a fitted. The best-selling number in ly full skirt essed on to a Izom neck to waist than her garment she will appear niyled with saighdy bloused ribbed waistband. The neck- Another young fashion gown-up slotor and conse smaller). Flocked tweeds in basic held by two butioned loss, which vary between which is missing from teen- quently her waist measure light colours, honeycomb tabs over stalim skirts quare, round or deeply
fore," admitted the buyer of
a large teenage department. "But I haven't dared sug gest to my young customers that they should crop at least two inches off the hem of the skirts to make them fashion right."
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