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Tuesday, March 21, 195Q THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Paae 3 rmnn m ft v m n n -r ttv ilium uomnL r'ui First Annual SPRIN&IS-HERE EDITION TTl lift 'Back to Nature' Cry for Spring Ah! Spring! Spring! Spring! . . . That glorious time of the year reserved especially for fun and games. It starts off with a bang on that joyous morning when you open the window, throw out your chest (crash!) and take a deep breath of the new. As early as January that old devil Spring will try to catch the student off guard and sneak in a warm day. Out of his winter heavies and into his spring raiment, our friend lurches out the front door to greet the fresh morn ing. By noon he is in the midst of the worst blizzard since '89. Spring keeps playing its game on our gullible friend until the student finally outwits the elements. Determined Linen mouses Still Important AH the talk about sheers has not robbed linens of their im portance when it comes to the blouse subject. The emphasis is on pure linen of the handkerchiefs as well as heavy variety and on simulated linens srch as spun or lightweight butcher rayons. These comprise from 30 to 50 per cent of the linens with sheers getting some what less attention, and pique and jewel toned broadcloth tak ing up to 25 per cent. Color poses a point of interest because of the excellent recep tion being given tangerine. White and navy are the major shades beige and tangerine the most newsworthy among well accepted colors. Style Interest continues to cen ter on sleeves and collars. Sleeve less blouses are being added in quantity. Substitutes for sleeve fcssness are cape-like extensions over the shoulder or cap sleeves notched over the shoulder. More soft unrnpunted sleeves are ap pearing, especially in the linen shirts with the full, dropped shoulder. More soft unmounted sleeves are appearing, especially in the linen shirts with the full, dropped shoulder. Boyish button front blouses distinguished by pert little collars are basic. By way of news, collared and pock eted halter tops are represented too. Hankies Inspire Blouse Creations Handkerchiefs are proving to be a bright inspirational light to the blouse world. Beginning this spring in a ba tiste blouse inset with dotted hankie corners, the treud is spreading widely. Batiste and sheer linen blouses have inserts of Chinese and Madeira em broidered handkerchiels. Pockets and collars are cut from these squares, affording hand-embroidered touches. Peasant blouses have print kerchiefs set into the bodice or forming ruffles. Where the body of the hand kerchief isn't used, embroidery techniques are adapted. Lift up organdie or lace appliques in flower, fruit and butterfly shapes are creating great interest in handkerchiefs and may bring equal popularity in the blouse department. lllonse Fashions Ijosc Femininity In summer styles, cotton cham bray is being featured in blouses, especially the sleeveless style with the pin-pleated front and crystal buttons. In the same fabric other Mouses are fashioned according to the mandarin collar, short sleeve, pinch-pleat Iront, and pearl ized button routine. Pique is appearing quite abundantly also. In this category, the wing collar, short sleeves, or buy convertible collar, short sleeves, and high-placed pock ets predominate. Irish linen is used In the while ; i irtii Mtai ,i ' r :J-iL.V-'j:.V;' . ' f -v iff ' ' - ... r. o COKING Off to the Union to spend that extra hour between classes are June Hornby and Jerry Ewing. June is wearing a two piece pastel cotton, good for school and informal social affairs. Jerry has on the ever-popular sports jacket and slacks. of "wolf," he one day politely ignores all the sure signs. But the student has absent mindedly forgotten to look at the calendar. It's March 21, and spring .is really here. It's for the Birds Yes, it's real. true, live snrine with warm days and fresh air and green grass and birds. Our student must have missed the first robin, because the place is overrun with red-breasted first arrivals. They're flitting about, singing, chirping . . . doing all the strange, wild things that birds are supposed to do in the spring. The student can hardly believe his evej! It's fresh franrani spring! And love, love, love. ( Philosophy down the drain, math 1 down the drain, basket-weaving down the drain. The student is free. He has broken the bonds of slavery. No longer must he trudge home at night to spend 15 minutes at the book grind. No longer will he have to sit in dark movies because it's too cold out side to do anything else. His days of imprisonment in the Crib are over; he can seek nature for picnics and grape pop. 'She Passed for Tan' Almost before the snow is off the ground the girls in great numbers head for the sun decks and the sun porches. They are not certain whether they will get sun tan or frostbite, but they gather up their books and pencils and stationery and sun glasses and candy bars and towels and baby oil and spend long, dreary hours beneath the spring skies. At the end of the day they gather up their torn books and broken pencils and battered sta tionery and broken sun glasses and candy bar wrappers and dirty towels and spilled baby oil and go back to their rooms to search for some faint indication of a tan. Wild imagination can produce all sorts of pale and dark contrasts on their skins, but hopes lade as tans fade in the shower. But the gals continue to ah and oh over queries about whether they can detect any "lines" on their friends. "Batter I'p!" And while the females are joining in the mad race to see who is the first to boast a sun tan, the campus males are out playing "N" man." heaving a baseball up and uown the main thoroughfares. Frightened driv ers twist and turn, trying to avoid the careening ball. Old ladies and children duck behind trees as the speeding bombshell flies over their heads. All the men take up sports enthusiastically. All go out for track, whether it amounts to sprinting over the cinders or tracking college ladies down the sidewalks. I Sweater girls become cotton ! queens, and the schoolboys out i fit themselves in sport shirts. : Papa's bill soars as the kiddies ; are drawn irresistibly into the ! stores by the gay displays in the i windows. j Picnics, Picnics, Picnics. Convertibles are converted, 1 boy meets girl and boy and girl (Continued on Page 6) blouse with I. ice trimming on the latls and edge of the sleeves. I not to be duped by the cry i. ........ ' :"'Hp7jr!f- y . fir j4;; - '.. t; Vt!! ,Jr i " ' : jUjJ ' u X . m V j ,, .,,.., v V V " ..jn ' """r THIS IS REALLY IT! The true Symbol of warm spring days is a group of young people in a de luxe convertible with the top down. There's nothing like a warm wind blowing through your hair as you wind down Lincoln avenues to say, "Spring is here!" Mighty glad that March 21 officially opens the great spring season are (left to right) Jackie Hoss. John Connelly, Jackie Sorenson. Kim on Karabatsos, Pat Baldwin and Cub Clem. They're ready for an afternoon of spring relaxation. (Fashion ofc oppers, Short coats (toppers), shirt waist dresses and the shorter skirt length are fashion trends most evident in the talk of Lin coln department store buyers and advertising personnel. Very short coats are being shown at Gold's. Designed to give the "top-heavy look," the toppers are flared. Some of them have push-up sleeves. Inciden tally, one company now puts out a short coat made of moth in sistent fabric. Sportswear Good Among sportswear items to watch are circle skirts, sleeve less blouses and dresses, and denims. Made in pastel colors, with chartreuse and shrimp es pecially good, the denims come in five and six piece coordinated groups. Matching coordinates are also available in pure silk, linen and cotton. Separate vests and vests com bined with skirts and slacks come in strutter cloth. And pas tel corduroys are available in skirts and jackets. Navy is tops, and checks are very good, according to Gold's suit department. Jackets, sleeves and skirts are all shorter. Hip bone length is descriptive of the new jackets; skirts are 11 or 12 inches fro mthe floor. Two Silhouetts A Hovland-Swanson buyer ex plained two distinct types of sil houette. The first is slim, with the width at the shoulder, a high round neck, and a narrow hip line. The second features a fitted bodice and skirt fullness. Dresses range from the shirt waist type through coat style to short ballerinas. Sheers will be especially acceptable for dressy Front Line Stressed in Spring Hals Aeecssorics Help To Set Trend I From London conies the word that the forward line is going to be evident on small spring hats. This trend is often accentuated by trimmings; a golden yellow beret in coarse straw is trimmed with a forward-posed group of straw leaves in the same color. Another hat showing the forward movement is a yellow straw calot which carries a tilted forward circular sTiapc filled with green feather birds, and has a yellow veil with a green bird fastened to it. A shape made in fur felt with grosgrain is a small head-fitting hat with a narrow brim which turns back at the front and curves sharply down at the right to a deep point at the chin line. This shape is also repeated with the brim curving sharply upward at the left, to give a propeller line. Coolie Styles Cnoi'c styles arc shown too, such as a burnt straw version worn slightly forward and trimmed all over with straw flowers, and a gray felt circular coolie-beret trimmed with black velvet question marks, worn straight on the head. Larger hats are also shown and sometimes have circular brims with a deep V cut out either at the front or back of the brim. A large hat in white leghorn straw has its brim cut out at the front and bound with mauve velvet ribbon. It has a bunch of violets placed at the base of the cut out. There is also a group of very plain sports hats typical of which is a yellow fur felt head-fitting hat with turned back brim split at the front and held with two crocodile skin studs. Beehive Cloche The deep beehive cloche in felt and straw with narrow all round brim or small front brim and a ofalk in JCincoln JfCccents Shorter Skirt jCengtk occasions, and dark cottons and j linens for informal affairs. For evening, Hov's say, the mid-calf or ankle length dress is good. Popular styles will be made in light, airy pastels from net, marquisette and chiffon. Short coats will be worn loose or with fullness taken in by a contour belt at the waist. Coed Skirts Too Long . . "Most University girls wear their skirts too long," the buyer said. The best length, she ex plained, is the one which is most becoming to the individual. In most cases this is from 12 to 15 inches, depending on whether the skirt is lull or straight. She advised college students to consider accessories carefully in planning a wardrobe, making sure that new costumes tit into the scheme. A two-piece shan tung or wool suit is a good basis, she feels. Also essential are cot ton dresses for school; a baller ina dress would be very desir able for evening. Navy Suits Magee's, too, speak of suits, for they are important this spring. Some boleros arc included among the very short jackets. Navy is good by itself, or trimmed with red or gray. Checks are also fea tured. Many of the dresses have shirt waist tops. The skirts are gored, fuller, and sometimes use per- manent pleating. Knit dresses in lighter weight material are shown. Cottons are frequently sleeveless and of the sheath type, and unusual weaves of cotton are included. In the sports line are quanti- ties of shorts in varying lengths, Statistics Show Bin Part of Coed's Budget Clothing and cleaning and re pair of clothes costs freshmen women 17 cents out of every dollar they spend at the Univcr- This is the second major item in the college women's budget. Room and board accounts for one-third of thc total amount, according to a study of living costs of 74 freshman home eco nomics students. o The report was made by Mrs. Dorthea Plum, home economics instructor. Mrs. Plum found that the amount the girls spent lor cloth ing varied widely from $28 to $109. This was true she says, be cause some of thc girls purchased their clothes bclore school star ted last fall. 33 Cents Room, Board The study shows that 33 cents out of every dollar spent by the women students went for room and board. Fees and tuition amounted to 6 cents of every dollar spent and books and sup plies 8 per cent. The remaining 2fi cents of every dollar the girls spend goes for eight main activities such as bus fare, entertainment, club and so rority dues, laundry, gifts and donations, cokes and ice cream. The average cost, per semester, was $439, according to the study. But the expense depends on where and how you live, Mrs. Plum found. Thirty-one girls living in the University's resi dence halls spent an average ol $568 during the fall semester. Four girls living in Loomis hall, a cooperative house, spent $430; 21 girls living in Love Memorial hall, another cooperative dormi tory where the girls work for part of their upkeep, the average cost of living was $407. flat bow at the back of the hat is a very popular shape this spring. Variety is given to this shape by detail and triinmi lgs such as eyelet holes in the peak and cen tral section of the croivn of a red felt model, an apricct fixed to thc top of a quartered crown on a yellow felt cloche, and an out tee shirts in diflercnt weaves, sleeveless blouses. Hats Forward Hats are "really wonderful." Many are forward-tilting, in both straw and felt. Artificial fruit is used successfully in some cases, and the veil often makes the hat. Felt is coming into its own as a four season material. As for shoes, the open-work pump with its small straps is popular. Shoes come in red, green blue and various shades of toast. There are lots of sandals. Woven like cotton, a new kind of nylon gloves are a boon in the accessory line. Bags fre quently resemble satchels and the square variety is considered better than the envelope. In hoisery special attention is given to the picture heel. Cotton Separates Millers have cotton separates 1 made to be worn by the college i girl. A frosty white blouse, lor : example, tops a mushroom plea- I oH t-L-it-t Tho tit,,, 1lnntP .mill. ""I HIIJ. ILUU IHJHI black and white or navy and white figured material to slim lines. Also at Millers are bright skirts topped by a butcher linen blouse clasped at the neck. A cotton skirt in tangerine color comes with a big patch pocket, and can be mixed or matched. Stops Short Nubbv pastels and pastel l tweeds in Simon's toppers stop j short, but wearability goes on and on. The shortie has a new, ' wide-contour belt to show off j new-look wide shoulders, ! High fashion in the "Cresta" coat by Forstmann at Simon's j are side buckling, wide cuffs, I gathered back, and lapel collar. Clothing Cost Costs Compared Fourteen Lincoln girls spent an average of $345. Two girls who lived in a rooming houre for ! 5., ""d room spent an 5j , , t Thc. 5lr ? ,,v'"8 ".Lovc Mc ,nonal ,hua" a"ri, Loomls hal1 bc' inu.su uii- iicip prepare meais prepare ana care lor tne halls, earn a 1 sizeable part of their expenses. ; an estimated SI 30 a semester at ' Love hall and $90 at Loomis hall. Club Dues Most freshmen girls, like their elders, apparently join a good l many clubs and other student 1 organizations which charge dues. The girls reporting in this study said five rents of every dollar they spent in the fall semester ! went for dues. Girls belonging to : sororities paid "the highest aver age rate of $79 each. The accounts kept by thc freshmen women students were compiled by Jeanne Wielage, Crete, junior in the home eco nomics department. i The survey also showed that over and above board, room, ex- tra meals, tuition, books and sup- ' plies, the girls who lived at home , spent an average of $217 during the semester. Freshmen in the residence halls used $208, those in j Love Memorial hall, $176, those in Loomis hall$162, and those j who earn their board and room I $127. j "Aside from certain fixed ex penses," Mrs. Plum concludes, I "thc cost of living at college, like : th cost of living anywhere else I seems to be largely what you make it. And after a semester of account keeping home econo mics freshmen at least have a fair idea of how they managed their money." size white button trimming the top ot a white pique shape. A group of larger straw hats worn straight on the head mostly have brims cut away or turned up at the back to give side width. An outstanding example in this shape is a red straw hat with the brim overlaid with black crin net, and spray of roses at thc back ol the haL Spring 1950 Is Something 'New' Spring J950 is the navy blue suit, now better than ever . . .it's beiges and yello tones . . it's checks. It's lowered shoulders and shortened skirts, shirt waist dresses and forward-tilted hats. It's a new sophisti cation and continuation of the little-boy look. Designers and buyers, in other words, don't quite agree on a definition of Fash- : ion, 1950 style. The women of Lincoln, Neb., U.S.A., however, are less specific. To most of them spring is a new outfit of some kind. It may be a suit, a dress or perhaps simply a spe cial Easter bonnet. Available in Lincoln In Lincoln's stores may be found new clothes and acces- j sories which reflect a variety of styles and considerable range of price. Some of the designs, as ,.,,, , well as some of the prices, are certain to appeal especially to you. Take a look at the advertise- ments and fashion talk in this special edition betore you em bark on that Easter buying trip. Spring is here, at least on these pages. It's partly a Paris spring and partly a New York one. But primarily this spring is Lincoln, and the clothes you see sketched are those to be found not on thc pages of some maga zine, but here, in this city. Fashion Trends Thc emphasis upon Lincoln spring does not mean that credit for thc season's styles is taken away from older and larger fashion centers. After all. it is in these places that the pattern for the w-hole clothing world is set. And no matter how many varia tions appear in this pattern, there are certain trends which are ap parent in it. Shifts in silhouette have defin itely arrived. Moderately blouscd tops and drop-shoulder seams are general for summer and should be "it" for fall. Tank-tops and tube-tops are in keeping with incoming boyish silhouette. Shirtwaist Dress Thc spnrtwcar fashion types expected to identify themselves with 1950 include sleeveless blouses and dresses and shirt waist dresses, with their adapta tions of shirt tops. Sundresses of all types are being shown in large numbers. I Among the spring prospects in coats and suits is the short jacket suit both boxy and fitted. Bel i ted. blouscd lines are evident in both suits and coats; skirts arc I slimmer and shorter up to 15 inches in some cases. Drop Shoulder Pleats are news in some skirts. Low-placed, or flaring from the hip, the pleatde theme is "keep it I slim." Sleeve variety: The drop , shoulder seam almost a hall mark of spring, 1950; the short, flared three-quarter sleeve; the blouscd push-up sleeve. Very short coats (toppers) come just to the waistline. Lar ger, higher collars are important. Conversely, collarlcss necklines are given more attention than last year. First to make their mark on the daytime dress picture for 1950 are dark plaid cottons. Solid pastel wash dresses, cut in classic patterns, are back again too. It will be a white spring in many cases. White frames neck lines and edges cuffs of both suits and dresses. '.. COMPLEMENT TO SPRING Listening to Copland's "Appala chian Spring," coeds Jackie Sorenson and Nancy Dixon are a com plement to spring in their new pastel dresses. While looking through the latest records donated by Sinfonia in the Union Music room, Miss Sorenson wears a "neutral" pink waffle pique school dress with hipline interest. Miss Dixon is attired in a cool Bemberg date dress with the "new" white interest at the collar and cuffs. The steel gray background accentuates the white polka-dot pattern of Hie material. Denim Separates Leaders in Play Coordinated cienim separates are leading the play-clothes pa rade. Sets including den, n shorts, pedal pushers and skirts, with tunnel belt loops and white ropa ties, are coming back strongly, A loose denim coat, called the "ShPPv R.tfpv" rnnt with r?irvnoi : front and cuffed dolman sleeves, j is tne newest creation along this I Printed waffle pique sets, in- cluding beachcoat' qwjtn zj'pper I front, boxer shorts, strapless bra and ruffled midriff top, are also ga'ni"g in popularity. Buuon trimming ana pocket interest are important in the sep arates group this spring. Match ing denim shorts, skirts and pedal pushers in pastels with novelty piping are making their debut. Knit Fashions Streteh Into 'Summer Wear To stretch the knitwear selling period light into summer, the New York knitwear market is ottering some new types of dresses. Early orders indicate that the idea is being taken up, as a number of these new styles sound perfect for summer vaca tion and travel promotions. For example, a strapless, one piece knitted dress with match ing knitted bolero is a new com bination in one line. Sleeveless knitted dresses with matching cardigans or jackets are also at tracting attention for better-price departments for late spring and summer selling, according to manufacturers' reports. Both of- i fer the advantages of knits in essentially cool stylos, plus the , cover-up jacket which can be i worn with so many other clothes. Scooped Necklines I Outstanding among the sleeve less types are styles with scooped i necklines, outlined either with ! lacy open work, or with cut- out patterns filled in with net. Rolled, wing and slit mandarin necklines are also getting atten- tion. They offer cooler necklines i for warm weather, too. Linen-rayon and nylon-rayon mixtures are being well received for warm-weather wear. Rayon, 1 cotton and wool yarns, some in combinations, are most frequent- i ly seen. Knlttad Suit The two-piece knitted suit with detailed pullover top, short set i in sleeves and self belt is still an ever-popular style. Embroidery or bullion crests are liked to dress up many j classic styles. Suits with con- trasting all-over embroidery on thc pullover top are being fea tured. Promoted also is the idea of I nit separates in co-ordinated, mix-match colors. Here are some additional fash ion highlights: Horizontally striped sleeveless dresses with shoulder button; novelty-knitted knife-pleated skirts; tailored suits with a tweed look in rayon cord yarns. Kit