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Tuesday, August 13, 1968 Summer Nebraskon Page 5 The Trouble With Clothes Is That They Cost Money By Jan Kreusclier XU School of Journalism Preparing for college, as any parent of a prospective freshman can verify, means more Mian adjusting attitudes and acquiring an educational foundation. It means spending money for clothes about $400 for girls and $300 for boys. Although the amount differs from individual to individual, n informal survey o f University of Nebraska students and department store personel indicates that with the exception of girls who sew, entering freshmen spend right around the average for clothes. Rut Darents can take solace in the claims of older students that thev havent bought much since their freshmen years. Judy Herbo lsheimer, manager of Miller and Paine's college shop, breaks down pre-college purchases as follows: One dress coat, one "knock about" coat, a good suit, pair of wool bermudas with matching knee socks and sweater, a cocktail dress, a tiressv dress, a rain coat, a couple of skirt and sweater sets, three of four pair of shoes, two or three pairs of pajamas, a few new pieces (sweaters, blouses) to coordinate with some of the iiign scnooi lenovers, a bathrobe, foundation garmets and underwear. The styles, she noted, may change but the types of purchases remain the same. The difference arises when girls plan to go through rush week. Rush week-bound girls may buy more dressy wools than others but costs generally balance out. A girl who has attended a Catholic school where uniforms were worn may not need any dress clothes but generally she spends much more on school clothes. Girls from Lincoln generally feel fairly confident that they know what they need and often spend slightly less than other girls because of previous contacts with university students and usually buy most of their clothes during the summer. Those from the Western end of the state tend to buy "just a few things" before school starts and then get the rest after September. Those from outstate do the same. Both groups try harder to consult with older students than do Omaha and Lincoln girls. Omaha coeds fall into, a separate class. One outstate girl described it as "They think they know it all already" but an Omaha junior explained that "We don't get too excited about clothes for school as we tend to dress like we did in high school only older." A Clarkson. Nebr., coed explained the difference in needs as follows, "Back home we wore cottons all winter long for school and then there were our Sunday clothes with little or nothing in between." Mistakes Almost all the coeds acknowledged that they had made mistakes in Dre-colleee buying. The mistakes often were blamed on brochures mailed out by department stores showing "all the musts for college." But the con sensus seemed to be "Their musts are busts." "For instance, after looking at 's catalogue, I decided that the only clothes acceptable were colored stacked heels with colored over the knee socks that matched sweaters and picked up a color in uie skiti. She added that she bought several outfits like that and has barely worn them as they were faddish and not really seen on the Nebraska cam pus. Another overrated item would seem to be the much touted "basic black" dress which about half the girls claim hangs in the closet 99 Der cent of the time. The girls and store person nel agree that the real musts are a good suit and ! separates. "Separates have been our biggest item for some time," Mrs. Herbolsheimer said. "Some years they match and others, like this one they don't. But they're always a big item." Once stocked up for college, the girls report that they buy very little, "just an occional dress for special occasions" during the rest of their col lege careers except for shoes that is. "I run through at least four pair of loafers every year just walking between classes," one reported. "And the heels have changed styles so every year that I'm about ready to give up. This year's shoes are ugly anyway." This year the stores and showing and girls are buying blouses, wild scarves, lots of jewelry, belts, long sweaters, chains and leathers. Plaids,! The intelligent, well-educated black militant faced the 100 or more students of race relations last Friday and told them that their founders were traders in human flesh and whoremongers; that their education was "defective"; and that their white faces all looked alike to him. In short, he disected white America into little bits and tossed them out to his au dience's reaction. Ernest Chambers, the Omaha barber who attended Creighton law school, con tinued calmly in this vein for j more than an hour. Politics, history, education and religion all came under his attack. "When your Gen. Westmoreland destroyed a South Vietnamese village," Chambers said, "he destroyed it to save it, he said. Weil, remember that when the ghertoes are on fire, or when the flames reach out to your Lome in the suburbs we're destroying to save, too." j American education and history (or at least the values apparent in them) did not excape the Chambers bar rage: "Whites have created a national mythology, complete with demi-gods" like Washington and Jefferson. Washington, he said, was an expert in defeat, a trader in human flesh and an adulteror. Jefferson, who once wrote that the Negro race was in nately inferior to the Caucasian, got the brunt of the verbal warfare. While espousing the doctrine of freedom, Chambers said, Jefferson was "a slaveholder. a whoremonger, and the maker of nine black bastards." The Omaha militant, whose write-in candidacy for tie Omaha Board of Education j was announced Monday, feels ; that from the time black , soldiers were allowed to serve ; in U.J. services, America s war record has improved. He Lincoln's Political Activity Hastens Continued from Page 1 in almost every county and local chairmen in as many cities as possible. The different chairmen will be in charge of a door-to-door campaign in their areas distributing information and answering questions on lowering the voting age to 19, he explained. Piester said most of the plans made during convention week were for a booth NFYAS will have at the Nebraska State Fair under the grandstand. NFYAS is also currently involved in a drive to raise f unds for its campaign. He said the group is trying to raise money by selling bumper stickers which say, "Let Nebraska's Young Adults Share In Democracy, Vote For Amendment One." "We're a nonpartisan group and usually there are few p o 1 i tical disagreements," Fiester explained. "But it is true that the Republican con v e n t i o n caused some dissension among us." The Republicans thought they were choosing their presidential candidate at the convention. Little did they know that they were a'so providing the background noise for politics quite unlike those taking place in Miami said that in the Revolutionary War and in the Civil War "military victories were almost non-existent" But the tide turned when blacks were allowed to fight After war, however, it's "back to Madison," a phrase taken from a song which means "back to slavery." And Chambers thinks blacks are still slaves, or at least subjects. "We don't feel like citizens," he said, "because privileges and rights go with citizenship. Since we don't have the rights and privileges, we're nothing but colonial subjects. Other comments by I Chambers included: blacks may soon take a I lesson from Tom Jefferson and his thugs who burned the establishment to the ground." Politicians talk of crime in I the streets but guns haven't been called out against the Mafia "which controls labor I unions, construction com-1 panies and real estate firms." Politicians also ignore embezzlement, price fixing and drug fixing. He compared the Nixorf- Agnew ticket of the Republicans to an "undeserved parking ticket" He saia mat uie u.s. was showing cowardice in waging) a war against' a small country I like Aorta Vietnam while refusing to confront the major! Communist powers like! Russia dnd China. "It's like trying to kill an I octopus by attacking its ten tacles instead of its head," he said. The Newest Eye-Dees In Make-up Are Frcm Merle Ihmzn The eyes have it this fall in make-up, and Merle Norman gets the vote. Let your eyes tell the story in the beautiful, natural. Merle Norman way. Merle f'crmzn Cosmetic Stuik III No. 14th St 4324235 Set $175 with a new finish called "Rustic" See it in 18 Id. white or yellow gold exclusively Servini Lincoln Sunt 1905 1121 "or rc&T KGsmED Jtmw AMBucAM am team i pleats and rallies are also j bark, accorJing to Glamour ; magazine, which shows ' everything from m i d c a 1 f length to thigh roveal.n;; skirts and ruffled crepe to tailored leathers. ! rhrn I.nnk Boys fashions are less changeable but this years buying does reveal some changes. A spokesman from Gold's men's wear shop cited the trend toward turtle neck shirts and Nehru jackets as an example. "But they seem to be ig noring the beads pretty much," she added. Except for this, the college bound male tends to spend his $300 pretty much as his predecessors have. One Lincoln junior's purchases parallel those cited by clothing personal almost exactly. He said he bought: Two suits, two sport coats, a half-dozen shirts, four V neck sweaters, some ties, two pairs of shoes, a topcoat, and ; a couple pairs of siaiks. Asain there seemed to ba , a d'ffererce in buyinf habits 'between Omaha-Lincoln , needs and outstate Outstate 1 youths reported more of a ! need for school-type clothing ! than others. I A senior from Bennington, Nebr. explained that in high school he dressed less carefully for school, but "the kids are dressing more like University students now. The college influence seems to be spreading more and more." "One thing I needed were nice slacks," another outstate youth said. "All I really had in high school were jeans and suitpants." All the boys agreed that for them the difference was mainly one of quantity rather than quality and they stressed that their senior year was often a year of growth for them so they needed clothes regardless of school. Male independence was seemingly illustrated as none of the youths reported having consulted with anyone. Mos. said they bought a few items before schco! and the rest afier they'd seen what was worn but, contrasting with the girls, they just didn't ask. "The best advice is to wait," several said. ''It doesn't take long to see what's being worn, and the stores in Lincoln are most likely to stock collegiate things anyway." Gap Narrows While there is still a dif ference between buying habits of Greeks and independents, the gap seems to be narrowing. It used to Ue that the boy who planned to pledge bought dress clothes and the boy who planned to move into the dorm didn't. "Well, that's just not so anymore." an Omaha dormitory resident said. "We might not wear sport coats to dinner every night, but most everyone has dress I clothes when they need j them." And dress clothes seem to j be where the styles have changed, judging from August issues of Gentlemen's Quarterly, Playboy and an interview with a male college board member. Suits are more daring then in past years with colors being brighter and checks and stripes becoming more an ! more popular. Lapels and tie? are widening again and mote and more two-button jackets are seen. But the "motJ" look is giving way to the "Eastern influence" of turtlenecks and Nehru coats. Though styles change for both males and females alike one consoling fact remains constant, the freshmen purchases usually aren't followed by any great output for clothes until four years later when they are relegated to closets in anticipation of more professional looking clothes. Chambers' Views Emphasized By Fierce Verbal Attack vun er&irame The Many Looks of College 2nd Floor Downtown. Mall Level Gateway WE'RE MADEMOISELLE COLLEGE HEADQUARTERS Consult their famous fashion notebook a guide to all things college. 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