Modesty and Good Taste Return to Girls' Fashions

1920--

SIMPLICITY FOR GIRLS

After all, the modern young girl is not so hopeless as her detractors sometimes maintain. When the leading girls of a big high school join in a movement for sensible, standardized dress, and draw to their cause most of their mates, it begins to look as if modesty and good sense were not among the lost arts.

The conventional "middy blouse," skirt of comfortable length and fullness, cotton or wool stockings and broad, low-heeled shoes constitute the chosen costume. In addition, simple hair-dressing has taken the place of more elaborate styles. As there are well toward a thousand girls in the school, the effect is one of smartness which the snappiest military corps might envy.

The idea has been adopted enthusiastically by the girls to whom dress is not a matter of money but of preference, as well as by those of moderate means.

There is a similar agitation for suitable costume in business circles almost everywhere. It seems fairly assured that before long the young girls attired for the work of the day in filmy waists, tight skirts and mad-hatter hair will be noticeable for their rarity instead of their prevalence.

--Olean Evening Herald, Olean, New York, December 1, 1920, page 2, editorial.