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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Wednesday, March 20, 1940
Gadgets ...
Gay flowers 'rt glass bubbles
are your new spring baubles
By Elizabeth Clark.
"Everything from your mother's
old cook stove to your little
brother's winter underwear," is
the way one fashion magazine de
scribes what the girls will be
wearing this year in the way of
gadgets. And the girls take this
literally.
Among the cuter things seen
around and about on the spring
clothes that blossom out with the
warm weather is Alpha Chi Ar
lene Grandmougin's red-tipped
cigaret with a miniature package
of matches attached. She wears
this on the lapel of her Alice blue
suit.
Gay flower necklaces
Featured at many of the local
stores this spring are necklaces of
gay spring flowers with earrings
to match. The sets are perfect
for that dressy look on cool spring
days.
In the fashion limelight again
this spring are the great big
brooches like your grandmother
used to have. If by any chance
you can dig around in the attic
and find an old-fashioned sunbrust
brooch your march in the Easter
parade will have an extra note of
chic.
Mary Anna Cockle, Tri Delt,
joins the ever-growing fad for
something, anything on your lapel
by wearing an amber hoop on her
siatc grey coat. Through the hoop
conje amber leaves, and the boat
is trimmed with matching amber
buttons.
We've tired of war theme.
"War, war, war," is the general
cry, and everybody is tired of
hearing about it. Fashion de
signers, ever cognizant of the
trend of public opinion, have taken
the cry for what it's worth, and
done away with the military
did-doos so evident in late winter
fashions. Only vestiges of it in
spring gadgets are big gold but
tons, which civilians always
imagine soldiers wear, and on
some suits braid across the
shoulders. But military insignia
and epaulets as things of the past
as far as pins and trimmings are
concerned.
Designers of costume jewelry
this spring have explored all kinds
of materials, including glass, tin
and wood. The wood is whim
sically employed in little wooden
trees that bear enameled fruit, and
to little wooden animals that blink
jeweled eyes.
Porcelain li prominent.
Porcelain, too, figures promi
nently in the fashion light of to
day, and is sculptured into flower
The first book purchased by the
University of Texas library was
a concordance of the Bible.
Havcrford college has a new
program to train students in work
of relief, rehabilitation and social
reconstruction.
C. A. A. pilot training students
have flown 80,000 hours without a
serious accident. Some 3,700 stu
dents have soloed.
John Held, jr., famed cartoonist.
Is now an artist-in-residence at
Harvard university.
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and matching earrings, or hung on
bracelets to make jangles.
Among the cuter of the brace
lets is Pi Phi Charlotte Stahl's.
Hung on a tiny silver chain are a
little well with a bucket that rolls
up and down, a pump handle that
really pumps, and a little peanut
that opens up to let two smaller
peanuts roll out.
Globules of glass are still being
blown at a high rate of speed to
meet the fashion demand for the
irridescent bubbles. Jean MinnicK,
Kappa, features a whole string of
them hung from a glass chain, and
a matching bracelet. The tiny
glass bubbles catch the light and
twinkle in the sunshine.
Tiny Jack and Jill.
And for her new spring en
semble, Shirley Faytinger, Pi Phi,
wearse a tiny Jack and Jill, gay in
red and blue, which tumble down
with grace and decorum while
rhinestone water runs glintingly
out of the historic pail. And when
she bought it, she had a hard
time deciding among the Jack and
Jill, Punchinello, with a beaming
moonstone face, dancing with re
finement on a silver chain, and 8
tiny lamb cuddled in a blanket.
And Betty Jackson, Theta, can
amuse herself all spring with a
silver charm bracelet (silver is
once again high in the favor of
jewelry designers) from which
jingle a little dice container with
dice that really come out, and a
silver lipstick container that
actually holds lipstick.
Flowers favored.
Flowers, nice as nice can be, are
again high in favor to wear on the
In pel, and the daintier they are the
better. So many a girl on Eatser
morn will swing along with tiny
sprays of lilies-of-the-vallcy or
dainty violets. And some of the
flowers hold tiny perfume con
tainers with the scent of the flower
they're hidden in, so they really
smell, too, and are just like real
flowers except that they don't
wilt.
And earrings, for so long taboo,
are again back to dress up the
straight suits and coats. But
they're not the big kind. Tiny,
dainty and feminine is the rule of
the day.
Bright birds.
For the more sophisticated
many fashion magazines feature
brightly jeweled birds, but for the
college girl they seem sligtly im
practical and a little bit over done.
Turbans, ever so bright and gay,
too, are held by all kinds of
gadget", to get away from that
plain, "just put on because it's so
easy" look.
So, fair lady, dress to suit your
taste, and add originality and dash
with a gay, individual bit of
jewelry.
New nylon hose
to go on market
here in May
Attention coeds! The new nylon
hosiery that you have heard so
much about has at last been put on
the .market and will be available in
the leading Lincoln department
stores the middle of May in limited
quantities.
Although coal, aid, and water
may be only that and nothing more
to you, DuPont laboratories have
produced from that combination a
new fabric which is supposed to
be run and wear-resistant, and
will produce a sheer, four-thread
stocking retailing at about $1.35 a
pair. Nylon is neither a rayon nor
a synthetic silk; in fact, there is
no exact chemical counterpart for
it existing in nature.
Nylon not a trademark.
The DuPont company stated
that the name nylon is not a regis
tered trademark, and the letters
have no special significance. The
name invented for the new product
arose from a desire to adopt some
thing entirely different from ex
isting dictionary words. The
termination "on" was used because
it seems to denote a fabric, as for
instance in cotton and rayon.
Because hosiery manufacturer
believe that women prefer sheer
mrchamiise and consider appear
ance before service, they are ex
perimenting with measures to
strengthen these delicate fabrics.
Two measures have been very suc
cessful. One is a tightly-twisted
fibre which lends a crepey effect
that appeals to women; the other
is a strotch-top ' achieved by an
elastic yarn feature, by means of
which the stocking adjusts itself
to the flexing of the knee.
Measured stockings.
Attention is also being given to
"measured" stockings. Certain
manufacturers produce a great
number of lengths and circumfer
ences to suit figures from petite to
very tall, and the snlesclerk. after
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Uni 4-H to revise
constitution
An important meeting of the
university 4-H club is scheduled
for Tuesday night, March 19, at
7:00 o'clock in room 306 Ag hall.
Two major items to be taken care
of at this meeting are the ques
tion of a 4-H club party, and the
reading of the revised constitution.
Some mention was made about a
party at the last meeting, and the
club officials wish to settle the
matter definitely. The revised
constitution must be voted upon
and accepted or rejected, but no
vote will be valid unless a majority
of the 4-H club members are pres
ent to vote.
After the business meeting, Guy
Davis will give a short speech.
All members of the university 4-H
club are requested to attend this
meeting.
Spring parties turn all thoughts to formals
Suiing parties, country club
dances, and formal dinner parties
will have a colorful sprinkling of
the old and the new this year, For
we're borrowing from Grand
mother's day when it comes to
many of the new formal gowns
which are old-fashioned and pic
turesque aa a Godey's print.
And then for those who prefer
to do our formal dressing in gowns
that belong more definitely to our
own era, there are hosts of inter
esting new styles, rockets and
extra skirt fullness are important
details here as elsewhere in
women's clothes. Marion Whit
ney, Alpha XI Delta, has chosen
an ice blue silk taffeta formal with
a low back and a fitted full skirt,
along the ultra feminine line.
Bodices are special.
Bodices receive special treat
ment with twisting, shirring, and
embroidered effects. Along this
line, Miller and Palne's are featur
ing a light blue net formal jacket
with a high shirred bodice, full
skirt, a fitted all-over tucked
jacket which can also be used as
a dinner dress.
There are many two-tone and
contrast effects, such as bodices of
pastel rayon lace and dark skirts
of filmy chiffon, black taffeta
skirts with white lingerie tops, and
white crepe tops with black peg
top skirts. Either black or white
in practically all fabrics, continues
as a dependable standby for any
occasion, since either can be ef
fectively combined with any of the
new colorful accessories.
Off the shoulder style.
Carlene Hohense, blond model
in the Coed Follies from Raymond
Hall, has selected a new black taf
feta off-the-shoulder formal. How
ever, Marjorie John, Alpha Xi
Delta, will feature an opposite
side of the color wheel tn a white
linen formal featuring red stitch
ing at the high waistline.
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Pink net is the choice of Selma
Hill, Sigma Delta Tau, for her
spring formal wear. On the slip
under her dress are embroidered
tiny flowers. The dress has a light
blue taffeta jacket with pink but
tons, and she carries a blue bag
with tiny flowers embroidered
on it.
Unpressed plaits.
Emma Marie Schutloffel. Sigma
Kappa, will be seen dancing in a
black silk skirt made with un
pressed plaits in front, and topped
by a tight fitting green jacket
fastened down the front by tiny
gold buckles and with a pointed
white collar.
Brunette Tolly Windle, Delta
Gamma, chooses a two-tone blue
faille gown. The top is of ltyal
blue, with a low French waistline
and long sleeves. The skirt is of
silvery blue faille with a little
bustle and a very full skirt.
Fitted turquoise damask.
Delta Gamma Wilma Comstock
looks extremely sophisticated in
her fitted gown of turquoise da
mask. The long sleeves are full at
the top, while the rest of the
sleeve is tightly fitted.
Another Delta Gamma, Gen
Harmon, wears an accordian plait
ed peach crepe dinner dress made
in grecian style.
PI Thl Marg Owen also Is
classic in her choice of formals,
with her. gold chiffon dress cut
along Grecian lines. And Alpha
Chi Omega Kathryn Tark, ac
cents her blond beauty with a blue
net formal trimmed with black
lace.
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