Modern Screen (Dec 1931 - Nov 1932 (assorted issues))

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LORETTA YOUNG'S Loretta Young is only twenty. Yet her attire always has a fascinating touch of sophistication— (Left) A lovely "picture" dress. The material is black velvet— one of Loretta's favorites. The lines are quite straight and the skirt, as you can see, very long. The starched lace collar and inch-lower-thanthe-elbow cuffs are sweetly old-fashioned and yet, somehow, they add a charming worldly note. (Above) Loretta's midnight-blue crepe, cut on molded lines. A very simple daytime dress — quite suitable for the office, and smart enough for a date. HOW should the young girl dress? The girl who is somewhere between eighteen and twenty-two and who wants to be the sweet, wise young woman-of-the-world without losing any of her youthful charm? She faces a problem. I know that from the letters that pour in to me from girls all over the country. "What should I wear so that I'll have an air of sophistication without making myself look older than I am?" "What shall I do to create an appearance of subtlety in my clothes and yet retain a certain youthful dash in them?" These days every girl wants to look interesting, different. She isn't satisfied to be the demure young thing — to cast shy glances about her and wear a ribbon in her hair. Neither does she care to imitate the finger-snapping hoyden of the nineteen-twenties who thought it amusing to show her knees. Miss Modern knows that knees are 66