PLAIN VOGUE

NZ Truth, Issue 1192, 4 October 1928, Page 19

PLAIN VOGUE

How To Dress The Awkward Age ft seems that from the time yOur child is a very small baby until she reaches the age of going to , preparatory school, she is a pleasure to dress prettily. '-...-. fTHEN she reaches •an awkward age, 1 which the TWisdom of many headmistresses has decreed shall be clothed m a school, "uniform. When she reaches the age of fifteen or so, her holiday garments become a problem, and when she leaves school and is riot yet a debutante, they: are even more difficult to deal with. Most girls want to dash straight into grown-up-ness, but the wise mother prevents this. * The remedy for the in-between age is plainness of dress. Keep her m jumper suits, plain felt hats, court shoes with cuban heels or plain strap shoes. Even her afternoon frocks can be kept on the plain side If they are .ma.d.c..out of the right materials^, — such as polka-dotted crepe de chines and silks, minutely flowered chiffons and voiles made severely and woj-n with the right hat. This, is the real, flapper age— -from fourteen to twenty years, and the tendency of most flappers is to exaggeration m dress. The. coat and skirt is anqther almost indispensable item of the sub-debut-ante's wardrobe. This can be made of tweeds or velour.in the winter and kasha flannel ln the summer, and, if worn with plain or ruffled shirt-blouse, is a very successful costume. Navy blue serge, woven m a fine, herringbone pattern, makes a serviceable and very, smart suit. At. all events, the watchword of the mother, :;.with a sub-deb's clothes to , Buperinterid, should be. "Plainness [weans smartness."