THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
ODD STYLES REPOSE IN ANNUAL OF '98
women Blossomed Out in Puffy Sleeves and Long Flowing Skirts
Faculty Displays Mustaches
Frills Were in Favor, and Collars Encircled the Throat Like Cuffs
"Old Fashioned" has a very romantic ring to it, but it will be who would enjoy being referred to with that title. "Old Fashioned" imiles a turning back into the annals of time and beholding what once was.
Looking back into the annual of 9% one of the first to contain student pictures, there will be revealed styles of long ago. No pompous adorned sleeves are required for parted straight in the middle or at the side and laid flat on the head, unless it was curly, and then the locks stood up "brush-like". Some hair fell over the forehead and other times scraped the coat collar.
Many and plentiful were the moustaches and nearly all the men as well as the faculty owned them. They were short and brushy or long and pointed according to the tastes of the wearer.
Collars were stiff and high and might have the corners bent back at the throat or left standing cuff-like around the neck. A bow tie was usually worn but a four-in-hand might be used with propriety.
Suits were of a plain "boxy" cut with the conventional crease in the trouser leg, and hats were of the broad derby type.
Athletes, such as baseball and football players, were packed suits and dark shirts. The foot-ball suit was the most distinctive of the baseball uniform was content with the sock. The appearance of these men was similar to that of the athletes today with the exception of those "coated" heads披着 above their suits.
Women wore puffed and baggy sleeves with rather snug fitting busaques with pliats inlaid and tacked. Skirts were full and long, as "Mary's ankle" was a thing not to be seen.
There were no side-walks on the hill in the old days so it is needless to say that the long trailing skirts and their wearers as well suffered from the mud and dust. The first short skirt appeared on the hill in 100 years ago, but its wearer was forced to go home and let down the hem.
Frills around the neck were much in favor. Collars varied but were usually of the same material as the frock made fancy with lace and edge. Collars ribbon with a bow and streamers took the place of the high stiff collar.
Hats were of the straight sailor type with a bird's wing sticking straight up and a heavy satin ribbon draped around the crown. Some hats were plain sailors with narrow ribbon bands around the crown.
Hair was combed straight from the face and done at the mape of the neck or coiled spirally on top of the foot, leaving the back middle but never at the side. The Marcelle wave was a thing unknown. Ground grippers had not invaded the sacred precincts of women's foot in the ancient time that were of the dainty variety.
Kate Stephens in the *Graduate Magazine*, says dress for men and women was not so standardized as now. Even clothes for men were cut to a short length but the long frock coat with its plug hat did yoaoman's service day and night. Women's formal dress had some fragment of cloth over a part of the neck and arms, and over the shoulders. The "dress flanned," linen, brilliance, Scotch gingham, chambray, "lady's cloth" were much favored as materials. *Bur school dresses* while the more dainty frocks were made of ankle-length fringed, Swiss muslin, Irish poplin, wear in ankle, India nulli or heavy black silk.
A member of the class of '98 who wishes his name withheld says that the present styles are due to scientific agriculture which has made them less useful. Do not yet know how they can be not yet know how they use their money and therefore allow their daughters to wear afternoon party frocks to 8:30 classes with a feeling that they themselves would want things of life which they themselves were denied, according to alumni.
"Recent rains were most timely," said Prof. S. G. Hunter, state entomologist. These raires were of a quantity sufficient to thoroughly moisten the ground and will greatly aid the early crops such as oats which would not have come up if these raires had not fallen."
BY THE WAY
Cora I. Reynolds, instructor of voice in the School of Fine Arts, will leave Wednesday night for Davenport, Iowa, wheres he will spend the Easter vacation. While there Miss Reynolds will be soprano soloist in a cantata given at the English Lutheran Church.
Miss Ruth Landis of Kansas City was in Lawrence, Friday to attend the Soph Hop.
Helen Moen, c22 and Winifred Moore, c23 will visit Violet Matthews c20 in Topea during the Easter vacation.
Adna Porter c'23 will spend Easter vacation in Kansas City, Mo.
Bernice Reed c'22 will be in Kansas City Easter.
DETA U HOLDS INITIATION
Delta Upsilon hold initiation Monday night for; Hugh J. Vaughn c21 of Winfield, Faro H. Stacy c23 of Leuvenworth, Reald A. Pinkert c25 of Independence, Earl J. Johnson p25 of Richard H. Stacy Paul W. White, sp of Pittsburgh Richard W. Deaver p, of Wichita lt. Lt. Fried W. Koester of El Paso, Texas.
Miss Corbin and Dean Kelley are attending the District Conference of Rural Schools, at Emporia today and
Wednesday. Dean Kelley anl Miss Corbin appear on the program.
Gordon Badger, l'10, was omitted from the list of K. U. graduates in present politics. Gordon Badger is run by Senator from Greenwood and Lyon Counties.
Marie Ketels, c19 now dietitian at Woodland Hospital at Moberly, Mo., visited in Lawrence Tuesday.
Ewina Peckham c'21 will spend her Easter vacation in Burden as the guest of Mrs. Gere Stodler.
Marion Montgomery will entertain Helen Peek at her home in Junction City during the Easter vacation.
Lone Forney will entertain with a house*party at her home in Abaline during the Easter vacation. Martina Terry and her husband Gustavo Graubner, Bruhacker, *Maurice Julton*,
Wanda Roes and Virginia Schwinn will be the guests of Helen Thompson in Kansas City during the Easter vacation.
Nelle Carey, and Katherine Keefer will be her guests.
Rosella Soarad of Arkansas City who is attending Monticello visited friends Friday and Saturday.
Veronica Harkin, c23, will spend the Easter vacation at her home in Paola Kansas.
Atlantic Fleet Declared Prepared Washington, March 31—"The Atlantic fleet was in the best state of preparedness" it had ever seen when it returned from maneuvers in Cuban waters just prior to the declaration of war in April, 1917. Rear Admiral Henry Mayo, commander of the fleet during the war, told the Senate Naval investigating committee today.
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Lieber*nant Koester Visit Friends Lieber*nant Fleen W. "Billy" Koester, formerly a student in the college is visiting at the Delta Upsation house, and looking up friends on the Hill. Lieut. Koester was a member of the Kansan Board, Sigma Delta Chi, Journalism fraternity, the Owls, and the Chief of the Kansan in 1917. He left school in the spring of 1917. He will leave tonight for Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, where he is stationed at the Headquarters of the Texas Division of the U. S. Army.
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Lena Hubbard, c21, will spend the Easter vacation at her home in Minneapolis, Kansas.
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