Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1913 — RICH GIRLS AS DRESSMAKERS [ARTICLE]

RICH GIRLS AS DRESSMAKERS

All Except Seven In a Fashionable Brooklyn School Made Thei£ Graduation Gowns. Acting on the principle that as they have plenty of money they may spend it as lavishly and showily as they ! wish, seven out of forty : two girl pu- j pils of the wealthiest public school in , Brooklyn refused to be graduated In any but costly lace /trimmed and charmeuße gowns. The others were content. In a movement to curb ex- ! travagance in dress in graduation ex-, ercises in a the public schodlk. to ap- ! pear in dresses they made themselves, j Because the other thirty-five girls. | many of them also of well-to-do famI lies, wore the self-made gowns, the Mother* club of the school gave (each

a silver medal emblematic of the occasion and their efforts to further the movement. Heretofore the graduation exercises have been noted for the magnificence and costliness of the gowns of the well-to-do girl graduates, which often shone in brilliant contrast to the garments of the girls of lesser wealthy parents who attended. —New York American.