SUNDAY, JANUARY 21. 1940
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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New Coed Styles, Fashions Pass in Review
Society Swings Out--an account of Mt. Oread society by Elizabeth Kirsch KU-25
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Just about the time of year when finals must come through.
Lights burn late and eyes grow dim as on the books we play.
Sing a song of dull times and think of old K.U.
and eyes grow dim as on the books we ply. But when the time comes up for quiz, the springs of thought are dry. All of which sounds quite futile and not encouraging for even the most optimistic. But with activity in the library at fever heat and with thoughts looking to the future—namely examinations, things must brighten.
Yesterday the sun came down and smiled benignly enough to elevate the thermometer somewhat from its depressing mark. But strong winds, cold winds, and biting winds, combined with the January atmosphere to keep .
students indoors and to eu down on the number of skier and skaters who might other wise venture on the slopes o North Campus hill and Potter' lake.
Triangle Party
Narma Sloan, c'41, was a dinner guest at the Stigma Alpha Epsilon house Friday evening.
With Clyde Smith and his orchestra pouring out the swing, members of Triangle fraternity and their dates last evening danced in rooms decorated with symbols of engineering Slide rules about 10 feet high were upon the walls; and geometric shapes were combined in the decoration scheme. Color was added by bright balloons which bobbed upon the ceiling.
Business Women Initiate
At a meeting held at 3:30 p.m.
Thursday in the Old English room of
the Memorial Union building, seven
women were initiated into Phi Chi
Theta; professional business security,
public relations, and organization pressed at the services.
New Officers
Those initiated are: Billy Hughes,
b'40; Margret Stratton, b'40; Eunice Lovevit, b'41; Helen Hollbaugh,
b'40; Gail Edmonds, b'40; Marjorie Newman, b'40
The following men have been elected to serve as officers during the second semester by members of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers; President, Robert Moore, $^{e4}$; vice-president, Gerald McGrew, $^{e4}$; secretary, Presson Shane, $^{e4}$; treasurer, Ray McIntyre, $^{e4}$; and publicity chairman, Marvin Allen, $^{e4}$.
Triangle fraternity announces the pledging of Donald F. Hogue, e'11 and Bill Easton, e'11.
Hunt Club Dines
In anticipation of a favorable spring, not in yet evidence, almost 45 persons attended the Hunt Club dinner held at 9 p.m. last evening in the Old English room of the Memorial Union building.
Chaperones for the evening were Mr. and Mrs. Phil Wryick, master of the hounds; Mr. and Mrs. Gayl Mett; Mr. and Mrs. E. B. DeGroet
Dinner guests at the Pi Beta Phi house Friday evening included: Godfrey Spamahanor, "c41; Dick Hart Spamahanor, "c41; Dick Harte Spamahanor, "c41; Dick Harte, jr, b40; and Max Wardh, gr.
Phi Gamma Delta announces the pledging of Donald Nigg, e'43, of Whitewater.
Grace Rice of Kansas City was a week end guest at the Chi Omega house.
Bill Mills, c'40, was a luncheon guest at the Pi Beta Phi house yesterday.
Freshman Party
Members of the Freshman class of Sigma Alpha Epsilon entertained their dates Friday evening at an informal party given at the chapter house. Their guests were: Norma Tibbets, c;43 Lorraine Poock, c;42 Nancy Leuthers, c;43 Nancy Prather, c; Jo Annie, c;43 Edmund Edmonson, c;41 Rieola Durand, c;43 Chestine Wilson, fa;43 ShirleyJo Hall, fa;43 Ceel King, c;43 Kathen O'Sullivan, c;43 Bety Banker, fa;43 Bety Dodge, fa;43
John Corbett, c'40; and Alan Sleeper, 142; were dinner guests at the Phi Delta Theta house Friday evening.
Dinner guests at the Chi Omega house today will include David Young, e'40; Jack Dumagin, c'43; and George Hollinger, gr.
Janet Turner of Kansas City, Mo. was a guest at the Alpha Omicron Pi house Friday evening.
Combine Chic And Practicality For Campus Wear
A few decades ago when Kansas was principally prairie and jack-rabbits, the pioneer mother selected her clothing for comfort and disregarded the desirability of style. Today the granddaughter of this hardy forebeaver combines the practically of the past with the increasing demands of smartness. Dressing for classes and daytime wear, the campus belle slips into shackles of a trim snow-suit, combining cold protection with eye attraction.
For example, last Thursday Sara Fair, c'24, was spotted dashing into Brick's in a slate blue garbardine snow suit with white boots and a red Swedish hood. . . coking at the Union funnion yesterday Jean Hin-shui, c'41, appeared in a pair of trimmely-grown guerFFER shacks.
Alice Schwartz, f41, diminutive art student wears a snow suit with a novelty jacket of white gabara fur and a jacket of black furtish neck flannel feet front in a mammoth red heart.
Pork-pie hats, as predicted by Vogue and Madameoisie in the fall, have taken a high place in feminine favor. Dotty Wise, b'41; Helen Bode, c'41; and Sue Johnston, c'42; are a representative group featuring this type of head gear. . Ingrid Fresadius, csp, appears frequently in the library with heavy white sweaters trimmed in brightly colored embroidery and highly suggestive of Sweden's influence on fashions.
Comes Friday night and school clothing is thrust upon the shelf until that Monday morning tinkle is heard from the alarm clock. Last Friday evening Dotty Teacher, c'43, was "Blue Milling" in an abbreviated silver fox jacket, . Black, ever popular, still holds the spotlight at fraternity buffet dinners and for casual dating.
Wardrobe Additions
Headed for the West—Topteka, to be specific, Sarah Margaret Morris, e41, recently added a note of color and texture to the trouser wool under a chubby jacket.
Fraternity houses and their winter formals are now things of the past, but the memory of stunning formals
Not only depressing thermometers, January weather is also depressing to the spirits of fashion conscious women. Too late for fall clothes and too soon for spring gaiety, milady's wardrobe needs a lift with clothing suitable for late winter and early spring days. Above, left, is a study in brown, suitable for daytime wear. On the right, a black pebbled crepe, brightened by accessories in gay colors, meets the "all-occasion" demand.
Thumbs Down' On Long Socks, Senior Comments
lives on long "after the ball is over."
For example, Billy McIntyre, c'41,
at the Sigma Phi Epsilon party in
her long sleeved black crope dinner
gown. . . Miriam Bartlett, c'42,
and Mary Jane Shartel, c'41, at the
Pi Bein Phi formal; the former wearing
creamette net and the latter in
black Viennese lace with hundreds of
tiny pleats.
Sages have warned us for lo, these 2,000 years to "Judge not lest we be razed likewise." This I suppose, pertains to feminine styles as well as anything else. But since an opportunity has presented itself, I ignore this keen advice to state my own firm opinions concerning coed dress.
At the Alpha Tau Omega party Ann Murray, fa 42, in white chiffon and Mary Robelene Scott, c'41, in stiff white taffeta bore out the appropriateness of bore for winter dances.
Evening wraps have become modified versions of the Russian corsac's coat with its ornamental rows of gold braid and heavy material. And so, conclude the survey of wearing apparel for women!
Although the walls of my own style-house are of but glass, I cannot resist the urge to heave a few stones at:
(2) Riding boots and jodpurs—which are every bit as iksnow from this man's viewpoint. The young lady who goes in for the high leather should smell of the saddle and have as her destination the out-of-doors. Riding boots are hardly appropriate for the classroom.
(3) Mesh hose—the "no snag" lind—thus, though kind to the hoary allowance, is unattractive in most men's eyes.
(1) Below-the-knee-length wool hose which some of the extrovert Hill women wear to prove that they still are slaves to Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. Sensible? Not a bit. If they really must go woodman on us, let them complement the outfit with a pair of tweed knickers. If they believe that the fashion is a clever one, let them know that such stuff is better left on the picture paces of fashion maps.
By Stew Jones, c'40
(4) Scaly fingernael polish, which too many coeds finish peeling off during the lecture hour. If the men came to class, razors in hand, to finish their morning's shaving, the sight would be no less appealing.
But let it not be said that I have no kind words for the feminine readers. I gladly cast my votes: (1) The sensible snow suits which rise in popularity as the thermometer drops. They are warm and chic—a swell combination of comfort and style.
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