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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Feb. 10, 1958
Dolls Tell Story Of Styles
ALL DECKED OUT—These two dolls in the hands of Dana Dickerson, Topeka senior, are wearing styles designed for them by students in Clothing Design I class.
Ninety-four of the best-dressed dolls on the campus are on duty in the basement of Fraser Hall to help you understand why you will either rush out to buy a sack dress or just sit back and wait for the chemise to shimmy out of style.
The creation story of the heralded design is told by the mute models whose costumes speak for themselves.
Illustrating the idea that "out of the past comes the present," women in Clothing Design I have outfitted eight-inch dolls in costumes representing style periods of different countries.
Extensive Research Necessary
Started four years ago, the collection has become one of the required projects in the fall semester class taught by Muriel Johnson, assistant professor of home economics. Because of the extensive research necessary to accurately reproduce a costume, Miss Johnson asks the students to choose styles and periods that are interesting to them.
Beginning the display is a 16th Century Egyptian doll in a garment similar to the hobble skirt of today. Other styles range from the austere 17th Century English Puritain to the bouffant skirt and bustles of the lace-trimmed 18th Century France.
The well known fact that fashions come and go and then come again is shown in the repetition of costumes—often centuries apart. In the course Miss Johnson emphasizes this cycle and the instability of styles.
Origins of All Styles
A careful study of the collection reveals the origin of every clothing style that man has worn. The turned up collars, pointed hats, tight pants, sheaths, shirt dresses and the chemise all have their counterparts in the display.
Male dolls are dressed in bloused tights, knickers, skirts and long
pants to represent periods from 500 B.C, to the present. One dapper Frenchman is sewn into leather "Puss n' Boots" type shoes.
Students say it takes about three full days to turn out a well dressed doll in a hand-made costume. There were 18 dolls finished in December.
Social Factors Influence Design
"Bibliography lists for required research papers on the projects are often as long as mother Hubbard's skirt because varying descriptions
of a design are found." Miss Johnson said. "The papers not only give the origin and history of the costume, but also explain the social factors woven into the design."
At the beginning of the United States-Mexico War, in 1846, Gen. Stephen Watts Kearney obtained the surrender of all New Mexico without bloodshed.
The display is often on loan to other schools and departments for various studies. The department of economics has used the dolls and reference papers for research. Graduate students also have asked for help from the dolls in preparing papers. Miss Johnson said.
In the South Dakota Badlands fossil bird eggs have been found so perfectly petrified that scientists can measure the shell thickness, and tell the yolk from the white.
Stout-Forker
... On The Hill ...
Kappa Alpha Theta sorority announces the pinning of Sharon Sue Stout. Wichita junior, to Alan Forker, Liberal sophomore and a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
The pinning was announced by Anne Lasater, Wichita junior.
Sellards
Sellards Hall and Kappa Alpha Theta sorority held an exchange dinner Thursday.
Alpha Omicron Pi
Alpha Omicron Pi sorority announces the pledging of Jo Mohr. Hamilton, Ontario, Canada sophomore.
Pi Beta Phi
***
Betsy Shankland, Kansas City, Kan. junior, has been elected president of Pi Beta Phi sorority for the spring semester.
Other officers elected were Nancy Dunne, Wichita senior, vice president; Sue Wesley, Hutchinson, corresponding secretary; Connie Tucker, Eureka, recording secretary; Nancy Parker, Bartlesville, Okla.,
treasurer; Sarah Simpson, Salina. pledge supervisor; Mary Claire Purcell, Kansas City, Kan., rush captain; Nancy Holmes, Hutchinson, assistant rush captain.
Carolyn Reich, Independence, Mo,
historian; Eve Stevenson, Salina,
program chairman; Marcia Fink,
Topeka, social chairman; Linda Miler,
Dodge City, house manager;
Mary Nell Newsom, Topeka,
scholarship chairman; Suzie Poppe,
Kansas City, Kan. intramurals
chairman; Marcia Hall, Coffeyville,
activities chairman. All are juniors.
Lu Barnes, Kansas City, Mo. senior, song leader; Sandy Owens, Kansas City, Kan. sophomore, assistant treasurer.
Ronnie Anderson, Hutchinson senior, and Jan Harper, Winchester, Ill. junior, are censors.
Frozen orange juice was developed in the late 1940's. Now a major part of United States orange production goes into it.
Wild buffalo have long been extinct in Arkansas, but they are still protected by law.
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