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What To Wear

Comfortable is the key to back-
to-school fashions this year for
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Jeans

kids emulating their big sisters
and brothers. "Everything is boot
cut in pants this year, in jeans,
corduroys, polyester plaid or
check pants, in flannel, velvet
and crushed velvet," she says.
Texture is a strong trend this
fall, with chenille, nubby knits,
crochet, stretch velvet and ul-
trasuede mixing with jeans,
cords and each other.
Colors are muted, in browns,
reds, grey blues and mossy
greens, and 'the girls love them,"
Kahn says. Girls have moved
from baggy styles to more body
conscious looks. "The girls will
wear velour boot legs with a
cropped top, but elementary girls
will no longer wear leggings," she
says.
Skirts are not what girls are fabrics. She says girls are also
choosing, except for dress-up buying up lots of flare or boot cut
times, when both long and short jeans, while boys still are wear-
are equally popular.
ing basic 5-pocket jeans, just big-
"Boys, however, want to be ger and baggier.
comfortable," Kahn says. Sweat-
They all go great with the
shirts with sports themes and thicker-sole athletic shoes and
flannel shirts with sports or logo clunky boots that are hot this fall.
T-shirts underneath are still pop-
Girls are seeing a revival of
ular. This year, boys are wearing sweaters in lots of textures, from
them with very baggy jeans and chenille to classic shetland.
corduroys. 'They're pulling them
Hillary Shaw of Bloomfield
down and wearing them low," Hills says her daughters Lind-
Kahn says.
sey, 7, in second grade this year
Bob Prussack, owner of the in Birmingham's West Maple El-
Waiting Game in Southfield, con- ementary, and Melanie, 5, en-
curs. "For boys, it is still very ca- tering kindergarten at West
sual, like an updated grunge look Maple, "are really into low-ris-
in earth tones," he says.
er pants with a flare, drawstring
"And we are selling just as pants with a flare, silky tops, tie
many flannel shirts to girls as to dye, all that retro stuff. They're
boys." Girls wear them like boys, into patches on their jeans.
over jeans, or under denim over-
"My kids like to mix things,
alls.
like a pair of blue jeans with a re-
Linda Sell, spokesperson for ally cute top or a Roots sweat-
Hudson's, says that denim is the shirt with a jean jacket on top,"
ticket for boys and girls this fall. Shaw says. "I try to mix the re-
Both sexes like the big carpen- ally good things with stuff from
ter, utility and cargo pocket the Gap. I think it's more inter-
jeans, which also come in twill esting." ❑

• For girls, flare or boot cut.
• For boys, big and baggy, worn
low.
• Both like carpenter or utility
styles.
• Forget faded, and go for deep
indigo blue.

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Pants

For boys, that basically
1neans jeans.
For girls, cords are big, as are
polyester flare pants in solids,
:checks and plaids, as well as
velvet and crushed velvet.
.• Girls are wearing overalls in
everything from denim to cords
to velvet.
• Drawstring pants in thermal
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• For boys, sport-themed T-
shirts and sweatshirts, layered,
often with a flannel shirt on top.
• Boys are also wearing hen-
leys, and zipper-front polo
shirts.
• Girls are also layering flan-
nel shirts over T-shirts and
turtlenecks.
• Sweaters are hot for girls:
nubby, chenille, shetland wool,
classic embroidered.

Fabrics

• Denim
• Suede
• Chenille
• Velvet and Velour
• Corduroy
• Polarfleece
• Thermalwear

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