Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1949 — Page 22

Teen Problems—

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1 High School Girls Refuse Low-Cut - Dresses, but Keep Hems at 12; Inches

Bp BARBARA LDCR. United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Feb. 19-—Dior can cut his necklines down

here, but he can't change the modest mind American teen-ager, a manufacturer of girls’

said today. ‘they're “too suggestive” and they won’t wear them, ‘to Shoda Ring, fashion adviser and “researcher” for

will the American high school girl take up her hems i for the whim of Dior or any other dressmaker, Miss Ring ‘sald. She keeps tabs on the fashion preferences of her young jee foi gh 50 stores i po many American cities, em a couple of plunging neckline dresses as “samples,” ihe sua. “They yurned them down flat.” There's one modestly V-necked dress left in the fi #apring and summer dress collection. ry

“Even that” Miss Ring said, “Is selling only to the older girls, ” The. rest of them are getting what they asked for—necklines buttoned to the throat or scooped out wide on the shoulders and Several inches above the bra ne. ‘ -

As for hemlines—mother and, [ Mr. Dior can do what they like, the girls are wearing them 121 inches off the floor, Miss Ring |said.

“They've - discovered a long) skirt makes them look taller and slimmer. They're not going to) change their minds right now.” | The teen-age “guinea pigs” also turned down the princess lne| {dress — which 1s making a big splash in grown-up dress circles. | But-that; Miss Ring said; is not s0 much their fashion preference as their figures, Most teen- -age| shapes need a belt, she said. Their| Sometime bumpy, always chang-| ng figures have also kept the! I ae, dirndl skirt at the top of the teen best seller list, Miss Ring said. Which isn't to say the girls

Teen-Agers Get Around These Days

By JEAN BLAME IT on modern com- * transport! Folks get around nowadays and meet new people. In the old days, a young girl knew only her schoolmates and ‘her parents’ friends. In this Seneration, friends are where

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you know, A lady waits 10 be introduced. But introduci “HI,

{can’t take to a new fashion it suits them. he High while Em-| .{pire waistline, the or fchu| collar, the grown-up hy over| bare-shoulder dresses are all parts of the dresses they like. And while they turn down a plunge in the front, they'll take as much as you can give them doten the back, Miss Ring found

Cardigan Is

Favorite

" Times Special NEW YORK, Feb. 10—The news for spring and summer is the cardigan fashion—a wool classic cardigan or one of the new “short stop” hip-length types worn over cotton, linen, rayon and, of course, pure silk, printed dresses. They are used as accent notes in Jastels & or in strong colors that he ap de Navy with Wiihe or oe or Prima, is featured. Pale 8 are worn with playclothes, with bathing suits and for afternoon and evening. The evening cardigans SIS Ying with embroidery In in sequins and es. This 1s a fashion that Srangles. four years in the making. To Mainbocher goes the credit for its inception. He lined his wool knitted with the identical print

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Situation: * You have aeccepted a number of dinner inand decide you must do something to tepay the hospitality shown you. Wrong Way: Decide to have a big cocktall party and invite all those who have entertained Hi You--at dinner, thinking would bean easy way to take A ot your obligations. Way: In repaying hospitality always try to re turn a dinner invitation with a dinner Invitation. } ¥ =» = Situation: "In going over your. Christmas cards you find that you received some from old friends living in other towns to whom you did not send eards. ton rong. Way: Decide 1t is a 0 do anything abo the matter, g ut Right Way: Write notes to the friends to whom you did not send cards, saying how. ‘Pleased you were to hear from them:

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Textiles Shrink Less ‘Than Before War

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REDINGOTE STYLE

Mrs. Billeter To Be Hostess

Mrs, Frank J. Billeter, 5869

hostess for the initiation party of Phi Beta, national professional fraternity of music and speech. The event will be at 8 p. m. Wednesday. Mrs. Benjamin C. Raley, ritual chairman, will be in charge of the Initiation, assisted by Mrs. Hazel Silvey Hill, chapter president. Those participating in the initiation program will include Mesdames George B. Gannon, Frank Boles, Walter 8. Rice, C. V. Kinsey, Clayton Shull, Ernest Jackson, John R. Shannon, R. J. Kreipke, Ralph Stephens and Donna Leigh Collins and Miss Margaret Gallagher. ‘Initiates to be honored by the organization are -Mesdames Harold Reid, Norman Kassenbrock and Claude Butz. Mrs. H. H. Peabody, violinist, will play. Assisting Mrs, Billeter will be Mesdames Otto Bade, Kenneth

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By LOUISE FLETCHER, Times Woman's Editor SPRING FASHIONS FOR THE YOUNG FIGURE—

“1 sizes 9 to-15—have a newly siteek air-that removes

them from the “cute”. classification into which, in past years, they sometimes fell. Now the young girl may | wear styles as suave as those chosen by her older sister. Typical are these two outfits (by a St. Louis designer) | being shown at Wasson's.

~ » ” *NEW ON THE SPRING HORIZON, for juniors as well as women of all ages, is the costume ensemble of dress and redingote. The one shown is by Carlye. The color, too, is new. It is a blue violet tint in the coat of wool jersey. The dress, in blending printed crepe, has midriff importance by way of a shirred and corded bodice. There's a high neckline and a self- fabric cord belt. The coat collar rolls down into jaunty points and the sleeves turn back to the important bracelet-length.

” » » = ”- LESS “DRESS-UP” but equally smooth is a spectator sports dress, also by Carlye, which dramatizes the weskit theme. The fabric, rayon crepe, is teamed with butcher linen. The use of three fabrics in one costume . gives. it the appearance of a three-piece outfit. The weskit top, with solid-tone front, has a tiny upstanding band collar, and small revers. Print makes the top’s back and sleeves while the skirt, with unpressed pleats sug-

comes in black or brown combinations.

gesting a pegtop effect, is in a darker tone. The outfit

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A ‘Bare’ Look

No Shoulders in Many Spring Styles

dress and a stole wrapped around her curlers. That's a house dress, fashion. The asutucturess who started out mak er Hubbards and ruffed diste: shor "years ago are so far up with fashion today that there's hardly a high-style gimmick worth talking about which they haven't whipped up in an

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were equipped with extra pieces of material—mostly rectangular,

WESKIT COSTUME

| The Doctor Says—

Genes Decide Color of Hair

| By EDWIN P. JORDAN, M. D.| BLACK HAIR contains heavy deposits of pigment granules made of a coloring matter, called melanin. In blond hair, the yellow effect is caused by the pres-

lence of dilute coloring matter. Red hair is caused by a dissolved

red. pigment. differing. from. that,

which makes black hair black. In white hair, pigment in the hair cells is absent.

The hair color is determined before birth by certain factors |inherited from the parents, called genes. To have true blond hair a person must have inherited two blond genes—one from each parent. Dark hair can come- from two - dark-haired genes or from one dark gene and one gene carrying any other shade. Red hair is present in the person who has either one or two red genes from the parents. : ~ = .

WHITE HAIR may be present

THE. SPRING and summer of 1949 will find the sub debs of Indianapolis rivaling the “Jeune filles” of Paris in the fashion field. Twenty teen-age lassies mod-

their mothers’ high fashion frocks yesterday afternoon in Ayres’ Auditorium. The style show was the highlight of the February meeting of the Sub Deb and Squire Federation.

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textile study reported by the U. 8. Agriculture Department| showed that fabrics purchased |

530 8. Wells St. . 1944 and 1946 shrank | : ess an pre-war materials ‘but | Chicago 7, IIL were higher in price. No. 5039 Price 200 Pre-war materials were superior

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sembles, judging from the ‘ahs and ohs” from the spectators, included a two-piece sports dress in cream and nasturtium wool jersey. The teeners approved of the bright cottons they'll wear during the vacation months. One in green and yellow striped chambray rated enthusiastic applause. = The glamorous times in a - 5

“Pat McDonald, Betty Macnabb -and Bea Douglass . .

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Sub Debs Model Spring Fashions

. high fashion, junior grade.

sub deb’s life were represented in the “formals.” Navy blue topped this phase of the show. One was of navy marquiset over a flesh colored bodice with a full navy skirt and a “come hither atole, vom r » » THE MODELS were Jonella > Alcorn, Joan Norton, Dodo Baxter and Joyce Ilett, Technical High School; Pat Gordon and Carolyn McCann, Lawrence /Centrdl High School; Betty Ann Hester and Betty Macnabb, Broad Ripple High School; Jean Steele, Barbara Blowers and Joan Buckley, Warren Central. Patty McCormick, St. Mary's Academy; Pat Wood, Pat Mc-' Donald, Connie Jenkins, Beverly Clendenin, Nicki Nicewanger and Janl Safford. Howe High. ..School, and Mary Ellen Me Shay, St. Agnes Academy. ;

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at birth or can develop during life by gradual loss of pigment. In the albino, the eyes also are lacking in coloring matter. However, not all white-haired babies are albinos. Some, especially |Scandinavians, frequently have {hair which has solittle coloring

matter that it appears practically|

{white. Many of these have some [coloring in their eyes and cannot {be called true albinos. Many infants born with ex{tremely blond hair get more and {more pigment until the hair may

{be quite dark.” Children, as well!

|as adults, also may lose pigment {and go from black to blond or |even white hair. The hair tends to lose pigment as age advances. The pigment {loss, does not develop at the same Iratd of speed in all people. Early graying sometimes seems to run families,

lof someone whose hair turned white “overnight” (hard to conflrm.-

[ Lots of pedple would like to delay the appearance of white hairs or to turn their white ones |back to the original color, Un(fortunately, as yet there is no |way known to medicine of restor-

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sometimes triangular-—to drape {around the bare spots. Some had tidy little boleros to keep the from splashing

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All of the dresses shown by the|

association sell for less than $18. | Some are as little as $2.95. One of the most glamorous of the lot was a boldly striped navy and white pique dress with ane red shoulder strap, a red midriff and a swirling skirt—and a matching stole.

Pink Cotton Number Comes With Bolero

A pink cotton dress came with two shoulder straps and white |eyelet embroidery trimming. It had a bolero. So did the pale blue pique with a string-wide halter around its bare neck. Even some of the covered up dresses: were shown with stoles. A shirtwaist style in brown and white printed rayon shantung had |a reversible stole with pockets at leach end, designed to be worn around the neck and under the belt. The stole is white on one

side, printed on the other, and| No. 8408 Price 25¢ the belt reverses to match it whichever way it's worn. Size. ...........

Skirts are mostly ful. Pockets.| . collars and sleeve lines have their due share of interest. And what man of what house could put up 2 Horntng” paper to view when the lady behind the] Street coffee pot shows up on wash day | Sette vssssnnsesrennnne in a blue and white gingham dress with nothing above the crisp white ruffle underneath her State sess snsesessssssssssscsnae Ma

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THE DOCTOR ANSWERS—

Question: What is ‘hypoglycemia? What would cause the condition? Answer: Hypoglycemia refers to a lower sugar content in the blood than is normal. It is present in a few diseases and it can also be caused by too much insulin in the biood, either fromthe pancreas, which normally manufactures it, or when received by injection.

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