KIDS

Above: Navy wool blazers
with Burberry crest. Girl's
dress in navy or camel in
Burberry check with
matching hat. At
Burberrys, Somerset Mall.

Right: A pastel pink floral
cotton jacket with
coordinating pink pants and
a white T-shirt underneath
by Laura Ashley.

shirt under the sweater and a
pair of fancy black and white
flecked pants and you're all set,"
he suggests.
This season, sport coats are
double breasted and tweedy
black and grey with touches of
rose and pink. Pants are also
black and white flecked or
tweed; different tweed patterns
are worn together. Shirts are pink
and more pink and ties are
skintiy, black and grey iridescent
affairs. It's the high fashion
gangster look.

SWIRLS OF SOFT PASTELS

"Downsizing is the biggest
difference in casual clothes this
spring," says Rob Goudsmit,
owner of Cinderella's Castle in
West Bloomfield. "Proportions
are smaller. Our T-shirts are not

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quite as oversized; our short
outfits are soft and simple, with
straight lines."
New this season is the
cropped top, a wide, square top
that reaches just below the
waistline. Worn with cotton city
shorts or the popular elastic
waist boxer shorts, the cropped
top looks sporty and clean.
This will be another hot ID#
season. ID# won rave reviews
from storeowners and kids last
spring with its comfy cotton
separates and kooky inside-out
patterns. This spring ID# is all
soft, cool sherbet pastels. Peach,
bubblegum, lemon and lime are
played out in stripes and writing
on stark white cotton.
This is the season for pastel
stripes and soft, subtle plaids.
Elaine Siegel, owner of Bleu

Moon in Hunter's Ridge, predicts
that Guess shorts with a
patchwork motif will be popular
this spring. The lightweight, softly
snow washed boxer-length shorts
have a light blue and white
stiped bottom cuff and pastel-
trimmed pockets and belt loops.
The new slenderness in
silhouette has made room for the
biker pant, as another option for
shorts. Bleu Moon shows colorful
Lycra, skintight biker shorts that
reach either right above or right
below the knee.
Tie dyed separates continue to
be popular. "We can barely keep
up with the demand for our
cotton, pastel tie dyed T-shirts
and skinny leggings," says
Goudsmit. "We are also finding
that swirl dyes are the hot new
item." Swirl dyes have multiple