Tuesday, August 13, 1968
Summer Nebraskon
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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
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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.
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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.
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