PRELIMINARY INFORMATION
If You Are a Slim Young Girl—Then simplicity is your biggest asset. If you are sixteen or in your early twenties, you are sure to look your prettiest in simply tailored suits 
Fig. (11) If you are a slim young girl, you can wear a basque dress with a bouffant skirt. and crisp dimity or batiste Buster Brown blouses.
Suitability in your tricotine or serge dress is just the matter of a youthful style and enough but not too much trimming.
A braid binding or a contrasting piping is far more effective than a showy beaded or embroidered trimming.
This doesn’t mean that you can’t indulge your basque dress with a bouffant fancy for frivolous things. It’s every girl’s privilege to have endless pretty organdie, net and lace collar and cuffs sets. Now that you are going to sew, you know, you can make them for a very small cost.
When it comes to your silk frock I am tempted to say taffeta—it is so becoming to the young girl. However, if satin or a crepe weave appeals to you more, have them by all means but be doubly careful that the style you
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