Tuesday, April 19, 1960 University Daily Kansan
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Women Call Vacation a Success If Spring Fashions Fill Closets
By Carrie Edwards
Two eyes, two ankles and billows of skirts in between moved slowly up the Gertrude Sellards Pearson dormitory stairs.
This was all one woman saw of her roommate pulling herself and her spring wardrobe up to the second floor room.
Spring vacation had meant collecting - the summer - clothes - for school time. It also had meant for many women the chance to buy a "churchy" dress and perhaps a school outfit in the newest fashions of the day.
The heavily-laden upperclass woman with the billows of skirts was one of the leaders of yesterday's parade toting armloads of styles up, the stairs of women's houses.
HER SEA SPRAY GREEN matching skirt and blouse purchased Saturday, promised to be favorite as that color is predicted by designers to be one of the most popular shades coming up. Lace bordered the neck, sleeves and hem, another feature Kansas City dress salesmen had assured her would be outstanding in the "little girl" air to dominate fashions this spring
"Man on second!"
The student's father, laden with shoeboxes, more blouses and skirts and one petticoat, was directed to his daughter's room. The one pettrcoat may have seemed strange to some after three good years of skirts stuffed with the stiff ruffles.
Full petticoats under skirts will not be part of the new spring fashion, the woman, who had read several fashion magazines recently, had told her father. She had correctly said the skirts of this year will continue to be gathered, but they will have only a slight flare.
THE BARREL LOOK was the best way to describe the flared skirts, she said. The woman was sure one petticoat under her new checkered and gold and brown plaid separates outfit would be just the thing.
She modeled her new bone-colored flats, slightly offwhite, which her father had left. She was proud she had talked her parents into buying the new colored shoes even if they had argued that it would.
be hard to find the exact color of shoe polish for them. The shoesalesman had boxed up a tin of bone-colored polish along with the new flats.
Another GSP resident scurried with two wardrobe-size suitcases to her room down the hall. That woman's cases held ever popular shirt waist dresses, including two new ones with the "little-girl" influence.
THE MOST-PROMISING DRESS in her mind was a beige shirt waist with puff sleeves and delicate embroidery on the midriff.
Beige was another of the predicted most liked colors this spring. The woman also said she liked her cotton small checked shirt waist dress in gold and dark brown. She had a matching kermich for that outfit. She said she had a hard time deciding between the checked ensemble and a light green dress with the little girl apron skirt and the large sash. Authorities had told her both the small checked and the apron skirted ensembles promised to be popular.
Campus Club News
A third woman resident tugged a new "churchy" dress along with her cocktail dress for the big spring dance. Her "churchy" garment was a navy blue jacket dress with the still-fashionable three-quarter length sleeves. The style under the jacket featured a scoop neck, no sleeves and a straight skirt with a navy blue belt at the waist.
Theta Sigma Phi
Jane Boyd, Newton junior, has been elected president of Theta Sigma Phi, professional fraternity for women in journalism.
A POLKA-DOTTED SILK dress for dancing dates was her second so-called better dress her parents had allotted her during vacation. The daughter said:
"Polka dots, navy and swishing silk skirts were all predicted fashionable, so when I found them all in one outfit, I knew I wouldn't go wrong."
Other officers are Carol Edwards, Lawrence, vice president and pledge trainer; Donna Engle, Joplin, Mo. secretary; Rosa Lind, Lawrence, treasurer, and Priscilla Burton, Council Grove, keeper of the archives. All are juniors.
Theta Sigma Phi has also announced the recent initiation of the following: Marcia Moran, Prairie Village senior, Miss Boyd, Miss Edwards, Miss Engle, Miss Lind and Miss Burton.
Kappa Phi
A dessert-coffee was held recently by members of the Home Economics Club at the home of Muriel Johnson, assistant professor of home economics.
Home Economics Club
Members of Kappa Phi, Methodist women's club, held group dinners recently at the homes of their patronesses, Mrs. Kenneth Pine, Mrs. Garland Richardson, Mrs. Ralph Kitlen, Mrs. James Paddock and Mrs. Glenn Kappelman.
Stella Longsworth, Flushing, N.Y. junior was elected president for the next year.
Other officers are Ann Bell, Salina junior, vice president; Judith Weatherby, Lawrence junior, secretary, and Sue Winkler, Caney sophomore, treasurer.
Scarab
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Scarab, professional architecture fraternity, has elected officers for next year.
They are Robert Berkebile, Kansas City, Mo., fifth year engineering, president; Robert Seacat, Emporia senior; vice president; David DeLong, Emporia junior, secretary; Norbert Smith, Lawrence junior, treasurer, and Lee Ernst, Auburn, Neb., senior, sergeant at arms.
She modeled for friends the "covered-up look" in her cocktail dress with a wide collar.
THE NEW COVER-UP LOOK is obtained if you buy dresses with wide collars that eliminate sleeves in the dress, thus leaving your arms bare, free and ready for swinging jitterbugs at spring dances."
Other residents toted their spring fashions up stairs and modeled for friends. The informal fashion show featured numerous creations from small plaid and prints to the sailor style that prevailed with wide collars and bright middy ties.
Another spring vacation had proved successful for most women in the fashion aspect. The woolen winter skirts and sweaters had been deposited at home. New, colorful spring fashions and last year's favorites filled the closets.
KU Fraternity Pins To Three Women
Mary Gayle Morris, a Kansas State sophomore, and Robert Barr, Emporia senior, recently announced their pinning.
Barr is a member of Phi Gamma Delta social fraternity and is majoring in engineering. Miss Morris is a member of Gamma Phi Beta social sorority.
Morris-Barr
Laessig-Protzmann
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Pi Beta Phi sorority has announced the pinning of Sharon Laessig, Little Rock, Ark., junior, to Peter Protzmann, Kansas City, Mo., junior. He is a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
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Sigma Kappa sorority has announced the pinning of Ruth Hart, Macksville sophomore, to Nicholas Marcellino, Franklin Square, N.Y., sophomore.
Hart - Marcellino
Marcellino is a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity.
The pinning was announced by Sharon Stump, Seneca sophomore; Suzanne Miller, Champaign, Ill., and Carol Hume, Oak Park, Ill., both juniors.
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