[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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