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[Spring shoes designed to enhance [wearer’s personality, lifestyle By Lisa Stankus Staff Reporter Shoes will do more than just cover one’s feet this fashion season. From the stacked heel sleekness of the pump to the 1970s influence of the the platform shoe, footwear will he versatile and of interest to any consumer. Shoes arc designed this season to suit anyone’s lifestyle and personal ity. Business people as well as col lege students will find suitable styles. According to Roz Alderman of Seifert’s Shoe Department, 45 Gate way Mall, shoes this season will be a mix of established styles and newer, irendier designs. “We’ll be showing cspadrilles with the flats, and sandals with the canvas shoes,” Alderman said. “It’s defi nitely a season of choices.” The newcomer to the shoe racks will be the platform shoe. The slacked base of the style is reminiscent of the 70s, when the shoe was taken to the extremes. In the’70s, it wasn't uncommon to find a style that raised the wearer four to six inches above the crowd. Fortu nately, the platform of the ’90s is more subtle. “The design lines of Bellini and Unisa arc big in their use of the plat form heel, and they really seem to be selling,” Alderman said. “I think people were ready for something a little different, and this is it.” Shoe experts also are predicting the success of the Roman-style san dal, a wrap-around-thc-anklc style. Designer Liz Claiborne is showing this line of sandals. Claiborne takes the fashion and mixes the appeal by shifting the material. A metallic leather shown next to a dull, brown leather can make the same design seem new. Nancy Wells, manager of The Right Shoe Only shoe store on the second level of the Centrum shopping center, said that the “traditional” shoe will be as popular as ever. “The spectator pump, combining black and white or blue and white, is always a classic style and continues to be a shoe standard,” Wells said. “Also big this season will be the black patent leather shoe, which is available in both pumps and flats.” Designer Evan Piconc is making the sculptured heel popular, but ex amining it in an interpretive fashion. The heel is slanted from the usually square base, and tapers to a narrow end. The heel’s uniqueness usually is combined with a basic pump-style top, so as not to sacrifice the classic appeal of Evan Picone’s trademark. Canvas deck shoes by Cole Haan add a leather trim to the classic East Coast style. According to Alderman, they quickly arc becoming one of the largest sellers in Lincoln. Whether one’s lifestyle is active or 9-to-5, chances arc there will be variations on old-faithful shoes to start i the ’90s out fresh. Thrift-store shopping enables columnist to enlarge wardrobe "/ wish you wouldn't shop at thrift stores, Jim. People will think we’re poor.” -- My mom on thrift-store shopping My guess is that since my sen ior year in high school, nearly 75 percent of my clothing purchases have been made in one thrill store or another. Believe it or not, I have done this for more reasons than just to spite my mom. Perhaps some of my initial thrift store passion was subconsciously based on parental rebellion. But since then, my love of second-hand clothes has transcended to a new level of spiritual communion. First off, let’s not ignore the obvi ous: Thrift-store clothes arc cheap. 1 here aren’t many places where you can buy a cool-lookin’ shirt for a buck. As I’ve gotten further along in my college career, my own budget has been shrinking, and mom’s reluctance to buy me stuff has been growing. Occasionally, my mom will get tired of me walking around looking “like a bum,” and she’ II spring for some new duds, but for the most part, I have to buy my own clothes. But far more important to me than the economics of thrift-store shop ping is the aesthetics. I just plain look hot in second-hand clothes. Ask any of my friends. For whatever reasons, 1 just can’t make new clothes work for me. 1 know that if I received a $1,(XX) gift certificate to The Hitchin’ Post (or is it The Wooden Nickel?), I wouldn’t know what to buy. Me in Ben Si mon’s would be like a Yanomamo Indian on Club MTV - I’d be ridicu lously out of my clement. New, expensive, fancy fashions just look silly on me. Perhaps I could go on The Oprah Winfrey Show one day when they’re doing makeovers on audience mem bers, and some slick fashion guy could turn me into a new man. Still, even if somebody could manage to make the hippest fashions work for me, I wouldn’t feel right. 1 find it difficult to wear clothes that cost more than my gas bill. The S501 would spend on a shirt from Dillard’s could buy me 500 packages of Ramcn noodles at Super Saver. My frugal college mind fails lo follow ihc logic of hefty fashion investments. So, I shop thrift stores because I like the prices quite a bit, and 1 like the clothes even better. If you know how to shop correctly, you can create your own fashion sys tem at a thrift store. Unlike a depart ment store with racks of identical clothes, thrift stores rarely have du plicates. You can pick and choose from an enormous variety of vest ments. Personally, I tend to lean toward a Ward Cleaver feel to my clothes. In fact, if I could somehow gel every piece of clothing that Hugh Beaumont wore on “Leave it to Beaver” and have it shrunk to fit me, I would never need lo buy clothes again. Unfortunately, that’s impossible, so 1 am forced to assemble a hodge podge from here and there. The result is a unique blend of trousers, jeans, button shirts and white socks that gives me my own special, albeit goofy lookin’, clothing entity. I recently hit the mighty triumvi rate of thrift stores in town, down on 0 Street between 17th and 18th streets. This series of shops is a thrift store person’s nocturnal emission. I was in the market for a new belt. 1 haven’t worn a belt since sixth grade or so. If a pair of trousers doesn’t lit around the waist, I pinch a bit of the waistband in with a safety pin. It usually works nicely. The other day, however, a dear friend - whose opinion I respect highly -- said, “Jim, why don’t you buy a belt, so you don’t have to keep pull ing up your pants?” As a rule, none of my pants fit around the waist. I even have lo salcly pin my Levi 501 jeans (the only clothes, by the way, that I buy new). On this day, the trousers I was wearing were especially loose, and 1 was indeed tugging at them quite a bit. So 1 took my good friend’s advice and went in search of a simple black belt. I found one. I also found a new pair of trousers (which probably will be cut off to make shorts) and a sec ond-hand seed cap. All in all, an excellent shopping day. In all, I spent maybe $5. I added three hip new items to my raiment repertoire for the price of a delin quent parking ticket; a very smart investment. So I see no reason not to continue in my thrift store ways for many years Sorry, Mom. For her sake, let me assure everybody that she s not poor. Hanna Is a senior theater major and a Daily Nebraskan columnist. 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