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Friday, April 7, 1944
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Coeds Model Chic
Colorful Costumes
BY NINA SCOTT.
The song writers say that
"Spring will be so sad when she
comes this year" ... Everyone is
entitled to his own opinion, but I
hold to the conviction that Spring
in her buds and breezes will warm
up considerably when she views
the coeds of Nebraska en route
to church and parts unknown on
Kaster Sunday. . .despite the lack
of the good old materials and se
lection, girls are going to turn
heads this year with their color
and style... to prove the last
statement, read on and drool . . .
Gray for v44.
Gray seems to be the color of
1944
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vivid shades, or can be classic
alone. . .Marsha Craft, Kappa,
wearing yellow with her gray
eabardine suit... she has chosen
a blouse and smart tarn i tne
shade. . .Jan KOgers 01 me meia
house cleverly sewed white pique
ruffles around the neck of her
suit and on her gray hat. One
of the smartest ideas of the year.
Min Beede Will be tailored in a
gabardine -dress contrasted with a
gold coat and hat to match her
Pi Phi arrow... add white gloves
and brown alligator shoes and you
have a smooth dish. . .Dorothy
Huffman couldn't look more re
fulgent than she will in her deep
violet "half hat" and gloves worn
with a three piece gray suit. This
Alpha Phi has chosen the new
short coat and collarless suit and
to complete her ensemble she will
wear pearls, black French vamp
pumps and will carry a black
purse.
Black Always Good.
Black has been good the year
round and the Tri Delts know it.
Floy Eberlc has a black dress
Warm Months
Bring Knitting
Back in Style
Knit two, purl two, this is the
password for the great army of
coeds who are agily beginning to
grace their classes with knitting
in hand. As spring advances, UN
knitters are getting out yam and
needles for the yearly spree. (It
is a mysterious but undeniable
fact that more people knit in sum
mer than in winter.)
Style books still emphasize the
classic slipovers of Kloppy-joe pro
portion, with cardigans running a
close second. Another new style
is the sweater diekie, which is par
ticularly simple to make.
lavender and yellow are the
most popular spring colors in yarn
as well as in other materials.
Socks Make Good Starters.
For those who don't have the
endurance to start a sweater, plain
or argyl? socks are suggested be
cause the process, while more
(See KNITTING, page 6.)
The Fashion
Edition
The Ncbraskan, this year, has
combined its annual spring fashion
edjtion with an Easter edition. An
attempt has ben made to show
what the typical campus coed will
wear this spring for almost any
campus occasion.
Fashion articles, were con
tributed by Betty King, Adrienne
W aggoner, Ruth Korb, Nina Scott,
Jean Rogers and Susan Chambers
Myra Col berg, Marilyn Fulton
and Don Mueller did the photog
raphy work.
The history of Easter was com
piled and written by Janet Mason.
Maryloulse Goodwin and Laura
Le Mundil ware In charge of the
The
Sunday
featuring the new low round neck
line outlined with white ruffles. .
her black straw hat is trimmed
in natent leather. . .Willa Reye
Tidwall wears black to set off her
pink clusters of flowers which is
bein? worn for hats this year
the concoction is wired in the back
and has an unusual veil sprinkled
with blue poika aois
The dessert always comes last
...and it's Dorothy Camahan of
Chi Omega dressed in a pink dress
and a small nink hat which has
delicate nink blossoms to frame
her face. . .cute.
I For a demitasse think about all
setY,Dles to make this a bright
on, n ensino- season . . . suits.
dresses, hats that are barely vis
ible, and interesting accessories
are in evidence everywhere
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Accessories
Enliven Dull
Solid Colors
Correct and bright accessories
can make a drab outfit smart.
Spring always makes one long for
new clothes, but in these war
times it is more patriotic, and also
less expensive, to take that old
navy blue sheer, and make u iook
new with a crisp white collar and
cuff set.
Coeds have been so limited in
their purchase of shoes this year,
aue to rationing, vnai mey win jiu
doubt welcome the many attrac-
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live non-raiionea styies oeiug
shown now. The wearing quality
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Her skirt, featured at Golds, is a 100 peroent wool spring plaid
with predominating gray over a white background. The moloneaux
piaits add the necessary something. Her sweater, also featured at
Golds, 4s a boxy slipover, a war blue shade, and of summer weight.
THE NEBRASKAN
Easter
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Tau, dressed for spring in a blue-gray dress with frilly white lace
collar. Three quarter sleeves and gathered front drawn to side
buckle add to the smartness. Spring feathers in her hair replace
a hat while a patriotic trend may be noted in her shoes of plastic.
The coat is a blue Chesterfield with a clover leaf collar.
should get a pair before the sup
ply is exhausted.
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spring and summer the smartest
ones win oe mane or idhc
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Plain colors or print to match a
favorite mitfit Annthcp f lever and
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practical bag is the duffle bag
made in colors of leather or felt.
S1 another novelty style is the
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white enameled wooden-slat bag
which Kips up three sides. Pig-
(See ACCESSORIES, page 4.)
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Dress Right
And Fall In
For Fashion
Dress right dress Cornhusker
coeds and fall in with Uncle
Sammy's fashion show of 1944!!
Best sellers in the shoe line-up
are the ankle strap and patent
pump for sports and trompin'
around, the non-rationed play
shoes are gay companions for the
reliable slack suit.
For gadding about, the officer's
trench coat (stolen from the
senior birdmen) is right, come
rain come shine
Hats have that whipped-up-in-
n-sornnri look, but then e'est la
guerre- but for a top-notcner,
the half hats gaily adorned wan
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their debut the demure Dutch
boy chapeau scores a hit with the
tailored suit . . . single flowers of
(See DRESS RIGHT, page 5.)
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Fashion Reveals Everything
And Anything Goes for Hats
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By RUTH KORB
"Spring has sprung,
The grass is riz
II wonder where the ladies' hats
Is"... '
Women are so slv they hide
new spring hats until Easter, on
which occasion they blossom forth
in all their horror. A few relented
before that Ea.ster parade, and
unlucky there is a sneaK pre-
I'irw f.f a few of this season's
'Livelier" models.
At tne annual iotirnali.sm ban-
mift one loi'elv bend-cewr eaiirht
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the eye. It was small, round, pink
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iere and there. Sounds lik? a little
bov with a dirtv face, doesn't it?
But the angle at which it was
worn was the most fetching part
of 4 he whole hat. It defies -description.
Half-hat shines
The latest in "wTitit the well
dressed woman will wear this
spring" was shining in all its glory
at this same banquet. The half
hat Us Tts name, and it consists of
the upper half of a regular hat.
Old Easter
Celebration
Sets Vogue
As the fashion parade lends
color and variety to Easter of
1944, it brings thoughts of a world
closely related geographically but
almost hopelessly separated ideal
istically. The understanding of interna
tional customs, as those of Easter,
is more important today than ever
before in the history of the world.
For example, the tradition of dis
playing new clothes on this holi
day is not native to America but
comes from an old Anglo-Saxon
belief that everyone must have
some part of his dress new, or he
will have no good fortune that
year.
Eire Feasts Easter Morn.
In the middle districts of Ire
land great preparations were made
for the finishing of Lent, the eve
ning before Easter Sunt'ay. Deli
cious odors of food started drift
ing thru the house about 8 or 9
in the evening and woe be to the
person who tasted of it before mid
night. At 12 there was feasting
and merriment for a few hours,
then all retired to ris about 4
o'clock and see the sun dance io
honor of the Resurrection.
An ancient English custom in
the county of Yorkshire was for
the young men in the villages to
take the young girls' 1-uckles, and
on Easter Monday the young girls
would take the men's shoes and
buckles. The following Wednes
day they were redeemed by a
present.
When n Rome ...
From an old Roman custom
came the socalled "heaving day"
on Easter Monday, when men
would lift up, or heave, women
and kiss them. On Easter Tuesday
the women held a remarkable re
taliation. They assembled around
tables, holding foaming tankards
of ale, and no man dared invade
their absolute sovereignty. If a
man appeared, he was pursued and
kissed and compelled to pay money
for "leave and license" to depart.
The proverbial Easter egg is
another custom common to the
peoples of the world. These eggs
were held by the Egyptians as a
sacred emblem of the renovation
of mankind after the deluge. It
tjTrif'es the rising up out of the
grave, in the same manner as the
chick, entombed in the egg, is in
due time brought to life.
In Russia the men visited each
other's houses on Easter and intro
duced themselves by saying, "'Jesus
Christ is risen." The answer was,
"Yes, he is risen." Then the peo
ri omhmred one another. ex-
changed Easter eggs, oranK
brandy, and were off to tne next
It
jjouim;
In Germany, an emblematical
print was sometimes presented in
(See OLD EASTER, page 5.)
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complete with veil and a Teat poo
ftf fifiu'r.rK nrotrudinfi- from the
sides, all of which makes the
wearer look like something that
got tangled up in a greenhouse.
The picture hat is not quite "the
thing" this year, but it is accept
able. All the hats of this style
have great round brims, that in
evitably hit you squarely between
the eyes if you have the courage
to come within 6 feet of the wear
er. The pict ure hat suposedly cre
ates the illusion of making the
sad person who would wear such
a thing look like a picture. If she
only knew! She looks like a
woman who couldn't wait to get
those 35 hours required to join
the Ferry Command, and found
a much better waj to take to the
ii ir.
To be or not to be
To be a bird, or not to be a
bird, that is the question every
woman ask herself, when she is
fin the market for a new hat. To
be a bird is often her answer, and
so she uports a small oeanie, wiun
one huge feather sticking out on
one side, and a similar feather on
See HATS, page -3.)