Virginia M. Alexander’s Appropriate Clothes for the High School Girl offers guidance on suitable, practical, and economical dress for adolescent girls. Written in the home-economics tradition, it advises on selecting and caring for clothing appropriate to school and youth.
The booklet reflects early twentieth-century ideas about modesty, thrift, and the role of dress in a young woman’s education. Alexander frames clothing as a matter of good sense and good taste rather than indulgence. A practical document of school-age fashion guidance, it is offered here as a free EPUB download. In its pages the everyday wardrobe of the schoolgirl becomes a small lesson in budgeting, care, and the social meaning of dress.