School Clothes With Dash
There’s a zip and zest to school
clothes this fall that puts them way
out in the fashion world.
The daring can clash colors with
abandon. They can build a ward
robe around tones of one becoming
basic color. They can pair the bulk
iest hip-length sweaters with the
most trimly cut pants. They can
have fun with a swinging cape,
matched to the dress, and violently
affecting in a loud red-and-green
plaid.
Definitely, it’s fun to be young,
and school wardrobes reflect the
gaiety.
Fashion colors for fall will in
clude:
Light blue — a strong, bright
shade not powdered.
Navy — brightened version that
combines with every color.
Emerald green — moss and hun
ter also strong.
Hot pink — primarily in older
apparel.
Magenta — will make big splash,
but will tend to drop off as
season advances. It is consid
stripe
Black with white
Color with white
Multi-color combinations.
Detailing that’s different:
Fringe trims, leather trips
(edging of sleeves, necklines,
or string ties), rib knit trims
on collars, pockets and jacket
edge. Pocket skirts, often low
on skirt front, tucked under
pleat, or in back.
Assymetrical closings on
blouses, skirts and suit jackets.
Silhouettes upcoming:
Basic pleatings across the
board, in separates, dresses
and suit skirts.
Hip-bone length overblouses
and jerkins (will not be re
ferred to as weskit or vest)
Long, pulled-down look in
sweaters.
ered a hard color for children.
Basic colors are:
Light to medium oxford.
Black—teens through college.
Off-white—tanned more than
this color of past years.
Schoolhouse red.
Patterns to watch: Plaids,
tweeds, diagonal check, horizontal
SNOW-PROOF JACKETS go to school for many semesters of com
fortable wear. His jacket has a cotton gabardine shell and a pile lin
ing of 100 per cent verel modacrylic fiber. This pile assures immunity
to moths and mildew. Her parka is all-pile in the same fiber. The hood
is trimmed with real wolf fur.
Star Teacher
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They think the life will be nice,
with a good summer vacation, and
long school holidays. Or they are
married women returning to teach
ing to supplement the family in
come with work that blends con
veniently with home life. At heart
these people are not really teach
ers, and never will be.
Having spent many years casting
his shadow on the next generation,
Dr. Nadler numbers many well
known college professors among
the thousands of his former stu
dents. And he has raised one in his
own home, a son who is assistant
professor at Rutgers University.
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little letter attached. The letters,
a, b, c, or d, indicated the width of
the gap, but started a new up
heaval.
How could my child get an A in
reading, but a “i>” in ability? Can
you go higher than an A without
shooting off into the stratosphere?
Behavior ratings made their ap
pearance about this time. One son
started out with a 95, and in two
weeks had slipped to 55. Frantic
ally, I scrawled some unasked-for
comments on the back of the card.
“Keep him busy every second, so
he has no chance to misbehave.”
And on a more psychological level,
“Perhaps he’s discovered his class
mates sneer at good behavior rat
ings. It’s popular to be bad.”
Report cards became more sin
ister when high school days ar
rived. New the children entered
the competitive world of “class po
sition.”
One was 40th in a class of 60. (“I
wonder what the 60th feels like?”
was his comment.) The other was
eighth in a class of 53.
Stirrings of genuine alarm. Is
one so much brighter than the
other? Or is one class academically
superior to the other in toto, so
that being number 40 really is
good?
Colleges Hew to Line
I comforted the 40(th, told the
eighth to hold to the line, and per
haps be seventh some day. (I was
getting competitive too.)
The era of the college entrance
exam was now with us. A coopera
tive school principal mailed the re
sults. One placed in the top one
percent of the country in German.
(He couldn’t get into the college of
his first choice.) The other barely
squeaked through the math
achievement. (His college couldn’t
have cared less. It recognized him
as humanities major.)
The colleges I’m acquainted with,
at the top of the academic ladder,
aren’t monkeying around with ex
perimental report cards. In sheer
simplicity, the subjects are graded
A, B, C, and D. (Those are the
exact marks one son has just re
ceived.)
It’s too late now to worry about
class cooperation, social adjust
ment, and ability to grasp new con
cepts. Impossible now to discover
whether !the C means dislike for
the subject, inability of the in
structor to teach well, or just plain
inadequacy on the part of my child.
I don’t really care. At graduation
time, the parchment diploma will
not carry any symbols whatsoever.
It will state simply that my child
has graduated, with or without
honor. And will I be glad when it’s
ail over!
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A special meeting of Cub Pack
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8 p. m. at the National Guard
Armory.
All those interested in Cub
Scouting are asked to attend this
meeting.
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