The restaurants are full of them, [shopping young women, taking the occasion for æ family Ye-union, a meeting with old schod friends, an evening of dinner and "the flicks" after a day of shopping. They are remarkably smart, and the bustle of the season does not mean that a hair for their page boy bob is out of place or that they have missed one iota of their smartness.
They wear the new stockings with black pointed heels running up into the blonde sheerness of the leg. Why? Probably because shoes tend to the pointed line, end the new "devil shoes" have fine vee lines cut downwards into the toe, while the heel at the back points upwards, much on s of the blackheeled stock-take oft their hats in the restaurant or walk in hat in hand, Qut they never fail to have thet smartest and newest hat just the same. They merely want to air their hair-ribbons, since hair-ribbons have become a something in fashion these ys, tied under their page boy rolls, lied on the tops of their heads, one, two or three tiny coloured velvet They dare the new pincushion nats, satin or plush padded hats, with sopper pins or minute, absurdly tiny vows holding down the padded tufting. Or they carry fur Dalmatian Gaps with wide tassels to match their smart little hip-length fur coats, not fox, like their mothers, but of skunk, newly fashionable. And when they are not in the new bulky, Shorter fur coats they wear full-length woollen coats with fur-covered zyms: "fur-armed is fur-warmed" is their favourite advertisement.
Their ears are starred with multi-colour flower head earrings clipped right on to the lobe: never o drop earring will you see on them. They affect to adore all things Edwardian, aint at an Edwerdian look in the evenings, and even at lunch will wear little leather dog-collars to match their belts. Or else a sewn-on necklace made of outsize sequins in some four colours, sequins big as a halfpenny In the buttonholes of their brief-fitted suits of rough black wool they wear charms dangling from strings, sabots or skiing gloves or animals for luck, the crab, the tortoise.
When they take off their jackets you find that their favourite blouse is one trimmed with, it is said, five hundred minute bows. The miniature has great charm for them, and the more repetition of a loved miniature the better. [So—fve hundred miniature velvet bows on a blouse. in the car they love hoods. Their mackintoshes are of oilcloth lined with sheepskin and hooded with oilcloth. Even on fine days they wear baby bonnets, which are really hoods made of coloured suede, leaving to their mothers the new scarf hats tying under the chin The wedding guests never suspected a thing when the bride excused herself from the table and said she was golpg to her room to blush up a bit, and by the time they did the young honeymooners were well on their way to other blissful parts,"—Mantinez Citizen.—Practice makes perfect.
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