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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Nov. 9, 1954
Homecoming Brings A Fashion Preview
BY MARY BESS STEPHENS
Kansan Assistant Society Editor
Homecoming time is fashion time—the alums returned bedecked in the new fall colors, the coeds brushed their cashmeres, and the stage was set for a running preview of what is good this year in fabries, cut, etc.
This year brought forth suits gone jewelry crazy—worsteds, flannels, and gabardines were seen adorned with pearl clusters, rhinestones and other jewels massed about the cuffs, around the collars, and even on the pockets.
The hat situation was, as always, very interesting. Long peacock and pheasant feathers draped off of high crowned velours—the flat Breton rolled brim numbers were very much in evidence, and the beret seems to be having a revival.
Fall shoes are predominantly reptile and suede. The cut is lower than last year, with the French heel getting smaller and "Frenchier."
The coeds of past years brought their "little furs" along to the game. They looked fine, while they lasted, draped over well tailored suit shoulders. The furs ended, however, on hubby's lap.
Well, there they were—the wellbedecked Alums and fans of Old KU. The student situation reflected fashion too—but more in the manner of comfort.
New Society Page Staff Sets Policy
Society page policy for the next eight weeks will remain much the same. Engagement pictures will be carried with engagement announcements free of charge. The picture must be turned into the society desk in the Kansan newsroom sometime before noon of the day before publication. All pictures may be picked up at the society desk on the day following publication.
The society page will continue to be published each Tuesday and Thursday.
News of the organized houses and campus groups will continue to be carried if the news is submitted to the Kansan in written form through a journalism student or through a representative of the group. All news for the society page must be turned in by noon on the day before the day of publication.
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Miss Clooney Stars in Movie
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When Paramount Pictures' "White Christmas" hits the theatres the public will find Rosemary Clooney has added movie stardom to her already spectacular career.
Following on the heels of her two Columbia record hits, "Hey There" and "This Ole House", "White Christmas," according to advance reports, is a cindy to make Rosie a box-office sensation.
Miss Clooney began her professional career as half of the Clooney sister singing team. She and sister Betty sang everything from hillbilly songs to sophisticated ballads on the "Moon River Show" over WLW in Cincinnati. It was there in 1946 that Tony Pastor heard them and signed them as vocalists with his band.
Three years and countless one-night stands later, Miss Clooney landed the female vocalist's spot on CBS-TV's "Songs for Sale." This led to a Columbia recording contract and of course, the unforgettable "Come On-a My House."
After "Come On-a's" tremend-
Many male students roared down to the stadium in hats—though they apparently weren't working on the "women love men who wear hats" idea, as these little numbers weren't geared to beauty. Some had beanies with propellors on top, some wore Scotch plaid golfing hats, and others appeared in the usual cowboy hats, and fatigue caps. One cosmopolitan soul even wore a Tyrolean hat with a much exaggerated brush on it.
She has purchased eight glamorous hats from her favorite milliner. Mrs. Sally Victor of New York.
Jackets came to the game on the student's backs, but were soon shed in the hot November sun. Their fur coats will have to wait for next year apparently as no one came near to getting "football frostbitten" feet this season.
Skirts and Sweaters, the best the closet could yield, were the predominate coed game time apparel. Yes, to get the fashion forecast, Homecoming games are a pretty good place to go.
The First Lady Goes Shopping Buys 8 Hats
As usual, the chic Mrs. Eisenhower selected small hats, relying on material, trim and color to add variety. The largest hat in a year of big hat popularity is also the fanciest—a narrow-brimmed breton of snowy white mink.
New York—(UP)—Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower has gone on a fall hat shopping spree.
The mink is one of four dresser hats in the group; the rest are primarily for wear with daytime suits and dresses.
One of the handsomest is a small breton of jewel-toned green satin; with the slight roll of the brim entirely draped with the fabric.
Most conservative of the dressy group is a draped hat of soft, pink velvet—the same pink the first lady has throughout her wardrobe. The velvet is tacked around a small, round crown and drapes almost fan-like on the right side.
Others in the collection are: a small, off-face toque in a soft, powder blue wool jersey, embroidered with narrow strips of brocade and wool yarn in shades of blue and pink; a small rose-red pillbox of long-haired beaver, with small v's at each side to grip the head firmly; a simple breton of black velvet with a grosgrain bow at the back; and a red wool jersey hat with a small "ing" of red felt perched youthfully on top. The embroidered crown is shaped like a four-leaf clover.
pus success—it sold more than a million records—Rosie was signed by Paramount Pictures for a supporting role in "The Stars Are Singing." It didn't take the producers long to decide to give Miss Clooney extra footage and top billing over Anna Marie Albertheta and Lauritz Mcelior.
Gamma Phi Beta social sorority announces the pimming of Marilyn Underwood, college junior, to Clifford Meyer, college junior, and a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. Miss Underwood is from Wichita and Meyer is from Kansas City.
The pinning was announced by Joanne Ramaker, college junior. Attendants were Patricia Allison, college junior, and Mary Valentine, education senior.
The Gamma Phi Beta pledge class will hold annual pledge party from 6 p.m. to midnight Friday at the chapter house. The party will have a Sadie Hawkins day theme.
Marilyn Mundon, college sophomore and vice president in charge of the party.
Committee chairmen are Julia Howery, fine arts sophomore, decorations; Marjorie Woodson, college sophomore, refreshments; Mary Sharon Cole, fine arts sophomore, and Glenna Richards, college sophomore, entertainment; Gretchen Youse, college sophomore, invitations and skit, and Frances Swanson, college junior, dinner menu.
Sigma chapter of Gamma Phi Beta, social sorority will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the found- ing of the organization with a Founder's Day banquet Thursday evening.
Gamma Phi Beta was founded at Syracuse University on Nov. 11, 1874. There are now 58 Greekletter chapters in colleges and universities in the United States and Canada, with 125 alumnae chapters in the United States, Canada, and Hawaii. Membership in the organization totals more than 29,000.
Gamma Phi Beta has set up t two camps for underprivileged children and sponsors a scholarship for advanced study in the field of social work.
A $1,000 Lindsey Barbee Fellowship offered by the organization is awarded biennially through the American Association of University Women.
The 14 members of the Alpha Omicron Pi pledge class had dinner downtown together last night.
Theta Sigma Phi, professional fraternity for women in journalism will meet at 8 p.m. Thursday at Tenplain hall.
--girl's house and they sing the fraternity's sweetheart song to the girl and then the girls in the sorority sing their sweetheart song back to the newly nipped boy.
Wesley fellowship will hold a coffee hour from 9 to 14:55 p.m. today in the Methodist center. It will be followed by a 15-minute worship service in the Tillman Peters church.
Sellard's scholarship hall for women will hold a buffet dinner from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday.
Gamma Alpha Chi, professional fraternity for women in advertising, will meet at 7 p.m. today in Room 207 of the journalism building. All actives and pledges must be present
Final plans for the national convention this weekend will be discussed and James E. Dykes, assistant professor of journalism and sponsor of the fraternity, will give a summary of all convention plans which have been completed to date.
Miss Anderson Signs Contract
Marion Anderson, contralto, recently signed a contract with the Metropolitan Opera company. This makes her the first opera star to sing with that opera company. For her debut she will sing Ulrica in Verdi's "A Masked Ball" in January.
Miss Anderson Signs Contract
Pinning-A New Status For Coeds Evolves
By LA VERLE YATES Kansan Society Editor
Pinning, a new social status, has developed for women on college and university campuses all over the nation. For centuries a woman has had to be either single, engaged, married, divorced, or widowed. Today a girl need be none of these, instead she may be pinned.
The rules of pinning mats in etiquette books, Emily Post doesn't endorse it; many parents have never endorsed it. and society must recognize it—but those most concerned—the pinned couple—honor and understand it.
A few rituals are growing up around the ceremony of pinning here at KU. In many houses the announcement is left entirely up to the girl. She may get one or two friends to sing an original song, present a skit, or read an original poem to announce her pinning; she may have the housemother announce it, or she may pass chocolates and announce it herself.
The boy she is pinned to buys flowers for the girl and for his housemother. He also buys cigars for his fraternity brothers.
After dinner everyone in the boy's house comes over to the
The announcement is usually made between dinner and dessert on Thursday evening, because that is the night when most houses dress for dinner and a slightly more festive air prevails.
In other houses a longer ritual is followed. Sometimes the girl announces the pinning by one of the above methods and then she buys flowers for her two attendants, who are usually her two best girl friends, and who have helped her prepare for the announcement. She also buys flowers for her housemother.
But should women go for the fashion, they will not be "square"—merely rectangular.
This "look," if adopted, will take women back to the days of the "boyish" appearance. It will rob them of the little femininity left in women's clothing.
Some would disagree that the "look" is unpleasant, but for these we use logic.
The "H-look"—the recent debate in women's fashions—is artistically unpleasant.
H Look Called Unpleasant By Writer
A curved line is the most beautiful distance between two points. The "H-look" has substituted a straight line for the former curve of women's clothing, therefore the "H-look" is artistically unpleasant.
The premise concerning the beauty of the curved line over the straight line must be granted for the truth of the above sylogism, but the oft-quoted statement has been worn so thin by frequent repetition it has become a standard in the English language.
By RON GRANDON
Then, too, the comparatively recent emphasis in artistic circles on what is called the "free form" curve is evidence enough of the aesthetic qualities of the curve. This theory of the "free form" says that nature molds its shapes into the most beautiful form possible, hence the emphasis on free-flowing girl's house and they sing the and "natural" curves in most modern ceramics and sculpture.
Then the "smooch" line is formed.
All of the boys in the fraternity kiss the girl who has just "joined the fraternity." Then all of the girls in the sorority kiss the boy who has just gotten pinned.
At one Midwestern fraternity house a party is given once a year at which the girls are pinned to members have the honor of serving dinner to their hosts.
Young people everywhere say emphatically that they consider being pinned serious—more serious perhaps, than some of their peers, considered an engagement. Certainly today's pinning has no likeness to the way fraternity pins were collected 15 or 20 years ago.
Because pinning usually does carry real significance it creates a relationship that could mean much to the future happiness of the boy and girl who are pinned. It allows them to relax the superficialities of casual dating and get to know each other. Because they are, at least in their young adult years, a common goal, they can be more frank about finances, friends, interests and future hopes and dreams.
Pinning may be just what it seems—an engaged to be engaged period, which the young couple spends getting to know each other better before entering into the more formal period of engagement.
Or it may be used as a device to get their familiesused to the idea of a coming engagement, knowing that they won't object this status as strenuously as they would to a formal engagement announcement while the boy and girl are still in school.
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