Friday, March 20, 1942
DAILY NEBRASKAN
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When soft lights glow and
music is playing sweetly, coeds all
over the country will be dancing
in cotton formals this season.
They'll be waltzing in marquisette,
for-trotting in organdry, swinging
out in pique and rhumbaing in
cotton shantung.
Since priorities have caused a
silk shortage, women will make
the most of cotton for their eve
ning wear. And there is little limit
to, materials and styles which can
be converted from cotton into as
lovely a formal as could be cre
ated with silk.
Besides the emphasis on cotton,
dealers have stressed a gayer,
more feminine formal for spring
and summer. The ruffles and huge
skirts will only be overshadowed
by riotous prints with the South
American influence.
For summer, the color will be
white. White pique and white mar
quisette will be trimmed with eye
let and lace (cotton, of course).
Organdy will regain a place lost
to high school graduation dresses
and will stage a comeback. Off
shoulder dresses with lots of flow
ers will be popular.
Latin American lends its influ
ence to dresses which will star
gay, wild prints of tropic topis
and full skirts with tight waist
lines to facilitate the ever popular
rhumba-dancing.
Coeds Wear
Casual Cord,
Gabardine Suits
By Edith Laslo.
Casual campus cords are the
best bet in the suit line for douch
ing around campus these blustery
March days. They can well be
worn into April showers and balmy
May. But gily colored cords are
the password and what could be
cheerier than a yellow cord outftt
with one of those flower blue print
blouses? Blues and pinks claim
many supporters and forsooth and
verily, if the campus were to bios
som out in colors, spring would
truly be here.
Practicality hits the keynote in
spring fashions in suits for campus
wear. Gabardines, always a good
standby in both winter and spring,
grabs the spotlight to take its
bow for clothes conscious lassies,
Because it does not wrinkle and
because it will conserve the wool
supply for defense, gabardine
again climbs the fashion heights
Good for Dress.
Since gabardine also comes in
for strictly dress and dating wear,
the style of the gabardine suit
determines its suitability for cas
ual w?r. The lapel-less jobs,
which again serve for defense,
look neat with different colors of
peter pan collars. Worn with the
Flowers for Formals
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Blue Uniforms Distinguish War
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Blues not in the night, but 24
hours a day every month, will dis
tinguish the feminine war workers
in official uniform of the office of,
civilian defense, the American
Women's Vol
untary services
and the Amer
ican Red Cross,
today's leading
women's serv
ice organiza
tions of the
country.
Speaking of the sudden rush of
U. S. ladies into uniform, "Made
moiselle" says, "Get into uniform,
yes, of course, but get out of uni
form once you've finished your
round of duty, and above all, re
member to keep your wardrobe
gay." Fluffy, feminine blouses are
invaluable to brighten the neces
sary austerity of a uniform. Men
in service do more complaining
when their women patriotically go
without makeup, and overnight
change for the masculine. So re
member, coeds, gaiety is the first
line of feminine defense, whether
the uniform invades NU or not.
In O. C. D. the outdoor winter
dress uniform consists of a long
jacket with four pockets, a kick
peat skirt of light blue, decorated
with a brown leather belt and gold
buttons. With all outdoor uniforms
a modified overseas cap is worn,
except with the A. W. V. S. fire
warden's outfit. O. C. D. office
worker's suit is of service blue
rayon with a shirt collar, great
pockets, and a flared skirt. Gilt is
used for buttons and grosgrain for
epaulets. O. C. D.'s nurse's aid
uniform is of crisp blue and white
striped cotton shirt-dress under a
white collar pinafore apron with
two copious pockets.
Red Cross overcoats are in
slate-blue cavalry twill with a zip
in flannel lining and epaulets
bearing the branch of service.
A. W. V. S. fire warden's outfit
is a navy blue wool tapered slacks
with jodhpur elastics, and a fitted
short jacket with shirt cuffs and
a visor cap.
O. C. D. uniforms can be found
in stores all over the country,
however, Lincoln stores have not
yet received their shipments. A. W.
V. S. uniforms are sold only at
headquarters, and Red Cross uni
forms are obtained thru headquar
ters and in one store in every city.
Wilma Schacht, Alpha Chi,
chooses this flower skirted dress
from Miller's for her spring formal
wear. The bodice is made of white
jersey fashioned into the popular
long torso. The large spring flow
ers are irregularly placed on the
starched sheer full skirt, produc
ing a gay cherry effect.
campus oldie, the saddle shoe, gab
ardine goes to class.
Strictly for fun and play, den
im, faded blue and of the work
men's variety, goes to picnics, rid
ing, and to classes. Much fun can
be had with denim. Play the work
man in the bright blue denim of
laborers and go more sophisticated
and nautical with the faded sky
blue denim.
Use Jacket As Basis.
One good tweed jacket to serve
as the basis of any two tone jobs
you might whip up with your solid
colored skirts is always good. Nat
ty brogues and box toed shoes with
argyle plaid socks are always sure
to pass censure.
To pass the casual test, suits
must be comfortable and practical.
They must stand the daily grind of
class wear, the rough and tumble
atmosphere of picnics, and must
stand up under the demands of a
busy coed's life. And remember,
now that the lads have so much
on their minds, there is nothing
they like better than to cry on
some well padded shoulder, so why
not wear suits, lassies?
Fort Hill, former home of
Thomas Green Clemson, founder
of Clemson college, is located in
the center of the Clemson campus.
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Escape Found
FromComplex
Style Worries
No more need you gaze in des
pair at shiny suede shoes, scuffed
heels or white shoe cleaner streaks
on dark soles; we havt found the
answer to these dilemmas and
many more.
After cleaning well with a brush,
hold your suede shoes over the
spout of a boiling teakettle. A
few short seconds and the nap of
shoes, which you had thought
gone forever, will be restored. To
hteep your heels in shape despite
crowded dance noors ana ausiy
sidewalks, try putting a coat of
clear nail polish over them when
new. We practically guarantee a
no-scarred finish for the life of
the shoes.
Cleaning white shoes is a uni
versal peeve especially when you
finish with ugly streaks on the
soles and dark heels. Even this
problem has a solution, however,
involving cardboard and a certain
amount of artistic ability.
Draw the outline of the sole on
the cardboard and then cut out the
figure- well inside the outline. Slip
this frame over the shoe, fitting it
snugly down to the sole and then
proceed with th cleaning. There
results are really worth the extra
time necessary.
Doctor your Shoe Laces "
Another use for the afore-men
tioned clear nail polish comes
after the disappearance of one or
more of the metal tips on your
shoe laces. Metal being very
scarce these days, you can prevent
the laces from fraying by merely
dipping the end in the clear poiish
- simple, inexpensive pnd useful.
Dropping the subject of shoe
care and taking up tips on the
saving of other wardrobe items,
we offer a method of keeping
those good pigskin gloves from
getting stiff after washings. Try
a treatment of saddle soap and see
if it doesn't restore their former
condition.
io prevent uv jviocjr ui
from stretching, try putting the
shoulders over a covered hangar
and the skirt over a second
simple wire one. Speaking of
hangars, bend them into the shape
of a foot and use them for drying
anklets, thus restoring their shape
and avoiding shrinkage.
With accordion - pleated skirts
being seen everywhere this spring,
the problem of keeping those
pleats in press becomes impor
tant. Try drawing the leg of an
old stocking from which the foot
has been removed over the skirt,
l.olding the skirt tightly.
Further hints, tips and remedies
might be offered but we mustn't
undermine the ingenuity of Ne
braska coeds any further.
Dear Diary: I woke up this
morning, and the sun was shining
and the breeze was warm and re
freshing instead of shivery. De
spite the calendar and my common
sense, l deter
mined spring had
come as far as I
was concerned. Of
course, you know
what my first
thought is every
spring, new clothes
and lots of them.
I forgot all such
trivialities as clas
ses, books and
meetings and
spent the whole
day downtown.
The store windows
alone vere enough
to confirm my pos
itive belief in the
coming of spring.
The suits this
year are enough
to ruin anyone's
resistance, and I
certainly couldn't help myself. The
designers seem to have chosen
blue as THE color this spring as
every three out of four suits was
either a lovely skyblue tweed or a
blue plaid intermixed with every
other color yellow, boige, rose
and bdown. Long jackets are
everywhere and the skirts are
By Jean Baker
either pleated all the way around
or nave a box-pleat front and back.
I looked at them all, and after
tearing out my last short lock of
hair decided on a three-piece blue
and gold plaid. The topcoat is a
straight swagger in solid blue
that will look wonderful with my
new print silk.
Oh yes, Diary, I didn't stop at
a suit but found a sheer silk dress
with the long torso line and ac
cordian pleated skirt that just fits
my wildest dreams. It is . blue
print, so that my accessories will
go with either the dress or the
suit.
I suppose you are expecting to
hear about hats and shoes now.
Diary, but I couldn't find just the
right color for either one; and be
sides tomorrow may be nice again
and I have to have a good excuse
to spend another day gloving in
spring pastels and the newest
styles.
Goodnight now, dear Diary, and
let's hope for sunshine again to
morrow morning.
Ice skating has become part of
the physical education program
for girls at Texas Christian university.
Colorado university has added
500 seats in its fieldhouse, bring
ing capacity to 5,600.
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