"An insistent feminine type of the year has been the girl with the skimpy skirt. We have seen a very great deal of her - far too much in fact. We have seen her feet, her elbows, and all that was possible of her neck. And as though to make up for the scantiness of her clothing, she has been wearing a huge hat. The girl who affected this style of garb looked like many things, but there was one thing that she never looked like - a lady."
Piers Burton-Page looks through the pages of the Girl's Own Annual and discovers that girls in 1912 were encouraged to fly, taught how to manage their servants, helped to dress properly, etc. And what music did they listen to?
