Modern Trend Influences New Fall Sportswear
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California's pace-setting, new sportswear and casual collections, and all the leisure-wear showings from coast-to-coast, express a new, more versatile mood that best reflects the 'urban-suburban trend' of modern living!
The fall '53 Sportswear story sparkles with a gay, new dash of color . glowing in surface-interest fabrics that almost project into third dimension.
Fabric interest is the theme song, carried ably by such favorite performers as separates and coordinates, "jazped up" by crazy pants, and harmonized with a new stellar attraction—weskits.
Weskits steal the show in furry knit mixtures—in velvet, corduroy, tweed, plaids, taffeta and brilliant felt alone—or in happy combination with each other!
These skirts perform with or without a blouse. . companionably with a suit or skirt. . most gaily with "jazzy" pants.
Blouses . by their very versatility - as usual bring cheers!
Cotton tweeds and wool jerseys vie for the spotlight against classic orlon, nylon, silk and rayon tissue faillie—for dramatic emphasis to new blouse shaping.
Watch for barrel sleeves on a dropped shoulders — elbow-length sleeves—cuffed with knit.
Draping at the neckline, tuckee collars, bib-interest and fur trims are marks of the new season's blouse performance.
Jackets co-star in the sportwear story, and team smartly with dress, skirt, or fancy pants. Every taste and preference is pleased by the diversity of jacket shapes for fall; boxy, fancy, fitted, or drawstring.
They carry fabric themes in felt.
printed velvetteens, damask, velvet, corduroy, tweed, flannel, jersey, suede, cashmere, and camel hair; fabrics that project themselves with hairy surfaces and nubby effects or sparkle with metallics and embroideries.
New and worth watching are the fly-away jacket a V-neck pullover ending just below the waist, and the Portuguese jacket, which tucks a front panel into a cumberbund.
Drawstring jackets accompany everything from pants to dresses, and with every fabric note from velvet to tweedy plaids, and felt.
Hip-hugging jackets become a shirt at the drop of a belt. Again this season, jackets and skirts in mix-or-match combinations draw applause as wardrobe stretchers.
Skirts, too, get top billing with new shapes, and treatments of the fabric theme. Colors dominate those of the accompanying shirt or blouse. Slim skirts are cased with side pleats and a new double-front treatment or soft shirring at the front, and back flares.
Full skirts are not quite so full as last season, but hiplines are rounded, sometimes with padding. Accent on the hips is spotlighted with the use of curved diagonal pockets, pleats and embroideries.
Bandana-bright cotton cannels and cone-shaped felt skirts vie with fancy pants in sparkle and glitter.
Stoles go with new skirts like shadows in matching fabrics—frequently lined with a contrasting color.
Color strikes an imaginative key in solid shades, prints and plaids, bright hues and muted tones.
Greens range from lime to a gravblue-green reminiscent of teal. Reds are pink to wine, from magenta to
Housemothers Make Debut
Seven new housemothers have moved into University houses this fall.
Mrs. C. A. Thomas, formerly at the Phi Gamma Delta house, replaced Mrs. D. I. Denham at the Alpha Omega Pi house. Mrs. E. J. Wilson, of Concordia is replacing Mrs. John R. Scott at the Chi Omega house. Miss Margaret Baker is the new housemother at Hopkins hall, and Mrs. Esther Poteet of Kansas City replaced Mrs. Lela Whitefort at Templin hall. Mrs. Poteet, originally of Kansas City, has been a housemother at Weber Junior college in Ogden, Utah, for the last two years.
Mrs. Jean Tice, Kansas City, Mo,
has taken over the duties of Mrs.
Dana L. Anderson at the Phi Kappa
house; Mrs. Leta Richmond of Kansas
City replaced the Carolyn B.
Waggoner at the Phi Kappa Tau
house, and Mrs. Marie Trego is the
new housemother at the Tau Kappa
Epsilon house. Mrs. Trego was a
housemother at Colorado University
last year, although her home is in
Hutchinson.
primary red. Browns extend from the palest beige to almost-black, high-lighted by orange, beige-orange and lots of gold.
Black, perennially popular, keeps its favored spot. Mauve and deep rich purple hold their place and grays are pale to charcoal.
The fall '53 Sportswear story is "la ronde" of verve, color, dash and inspiration! It's a modern rhapsody that invites a harmonious theme of wonderful enthusiasm for lively color and fabric combinations, with a counterpoint of imagination.
University Daily Kansan
Thursday, September 17. 1952
The twenty-five new pledges of Chi Omega sorority will be honored at an open house held tomorrow night at the chapter house. Gene Hall's band will provide music for a dance which will be held from 9 p.m. till midnight.
Gamma Phi Beta sorority announces the pinning of Joan Squires, education senior, to Edward G. Campbell, college senior.
Miss Squires is from Lawrence and Campbell, a member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, is from Moline.
Col. and Mrs. N. W. Anderson, Ft. Leavenworth, announce the engagement of their daughter, Barbara, to G. B. Hearn and Mrs. Otto D., Unruh of Clay Center.
Miss Anderson, a college junior, is a member of Delta Delta Delta. Unruh was graduated last spring from the school of education. He is affiliated with Kappa Sigma fraternity.
Members of the Newman club, Catholic social club, will be served a breakfast at 10 a.m. Sunday in the basement of St. John's Catholic church.
Black is First In Fall Colors
Black—always fashion's first hint that fall is on its way—enters the scene this year a new air of elegance! This season, black is shiny. . lacquered. . fall's most polished fashion!
Fabric designers gave black an exciting new importance when they created this smart lustrous surface. This brilliance is reflected throughout the fall fashion picture in a wreath of satin trimmings, including satin-piped suede footwear, satin and shiny broadcloth handbags, and glittering jewelry.
The lustrous look in coats is achieved by weaving fur into black woolens!
These polished black woolls are particularly effective in fitted coats, a leading silhouette this fall.
Fall suits are being shown in black broadcloth, usually with velvet or satin trim. This shiny black-on-black treatment is note-worthy throughout the fall suit showings. Satin blouses, to reflect the lustrous look, are the top fashion with suits for fall.