Teen Clothes

*Tapered Pants
with shoestring ties at knee and a cotton shirt knotted at the waist.

*Dotted Cotton
in bright colors is used for shirtwaist dresses to be worn with sailor hats.

*Bare-armed Dress
with wide skirt and flat gondolier hat with high-riding daisy are admired by girls in dungarees.

*Ruffled Slip
of polka-dot nylon is stiff enough to buoy full-skirted dresses, has snug elasticized camisole top.

*Peppermint Top
which copies boy's shirt is worn with pleated skirt and leather cinch.

*Party Print
of cotton with lightly scooped neck and built-in petticoat goes with pink pumps.

*Circus Stripes
on cotton, woven like linen toweling, make cropped jacket and full skirt. Straw gondolier hat tops it off.

*Princess Dress
of rayon linen, with tote bag gives a taste of what a girl can wear as an older young lady.

*Wide Skirts
worn over plenty of petticoats.

All from this website: www.fiftiesweb.com/fashion/...hes-1.htm

Very informative.

If you're into sewing, Vogue and Butterick both have repro patterns of dresses that would have been fairly typical- fitted bodices and very full below-knee skirts; some of them are sundress styles with little jackets. Something like that in an appropriate cotton print with flats would work well.