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University Daily Kansan, December 12. 1984
Variety is the word for area's shopping
By JULIE COMINE
Staff Reporter
Forget the Cabbage Patch Kids Forget the Trivial Pursuit games Forget the home computers.
A University of Kansas T-shirt.
Teresa Teenew has found the perfect gift for her $ 2^{1/2} $year-old daughter, Karen.
In University of Arkansas
"She just loves jayhawks," Teeuwen said last week outside the Kansas Union Bookstore. "You ask her what a jayhawk says, and she'll say 'rah-rab, rock chalk, KU.'"
Teeuwen, Lawrence graduate student,
also bought a safin Jayhawk
Christmas tree ornament at the
bookstore, which offers a mirage of
a snowy landscape.
THE BOOKSTORE OFFERS enough trinkets that students can fill their families' stockings with items such as Jayhawk key chains, playing cards, paperweights, shoelaces and shot glasses. All of which, of course, are packaged in Jayhawk wrapping paper.
paper.
At the Town Crier, 930 Massachusetts St., shoppers have been snatching up red and green Christmas cards, stuffed Garfield dolls with Santa hats and a variety of books.
"A book is a personal gift," said sales clerk Kim Miller as she rang up another purchase. "If you know someone, and they are interested in one particular thing, there's probably a book on it."
Women have been buying plenty of romance novels, Miller said. This season's hot seller: "Come Love a Stranger" by Kathleen E. Woodwiss
THE STORE ALSO sells dozens of "coffee table books," large books filled with photographs and illustrations on topics ranging from 1950s films to exotic birds. Boxed sets by Agatha Christie raysteres, trivia books, and Frank Herbert's "Dune" series are also popular.
Miller pointed to a rack of 1883 calendars, which she said traditionally sold well. The store ran out of them during the calendar several weeks ago.
she said, "but it hasn't been selling too well."
"We have one calendar with men."
down the block at Litwin's, 830 Massachusetts St., a mechanical Santa, surrounded by a display of women's nightgowns and underwear, rocks back and forth in the store's front window.
Besides the ever-popular blue jeans and sweaters, shopers are buying dress, holiday clothes, Shepard said. Women prefer the pastel
BUT ACCORDING TO *Shirley Sheppard* ladies' department manager, the traditional frilly, lace underwear aren't what women do this year.
them," Sheppard said, picking up a pair of baby-blue boxer shorts. "You can mix and match the tops and bottoms."
They want boxer shorts, briefs and T-shirts designed by Calvin Klein.
"The women really seem to like
colors of blouses, sweaters and skirts
— aqua, peach, pink and yellow. Men
also are buying nice clothes, she said.
"I think lots of men are getting away from letting their mothers dress them," she said. "We're selling lots of sweaters, but not traditional Shetland sweaters. We're seeing more prints and bright patterns."
AT KIEF'S DISCOUNT Records &
Stereo Supply. 2100 W. 25th St., gift
givers can choose from a variety of
holiday music. The newest Christmas
release is Kenny Rogers and
Dolly Parton's "Once Upon A
Christmas," but dozens of artists,
from Elvis Presley to the Mormon
Taternacle Choir, have recorded
Christmas albums.
"A Motown Christmas," released in 1973, features songs such as "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" by the Tempestts; "God Rest YE Merry Gentlemen" by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles; "Joy to the World" by Diana Ross and the Supremes and "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" by the Jackson 5.
Christmas is a busy and frequently wild time at the store, said Steve Wilson, the store manager.
"YOU'D THINK THAT people would like a little service, that they'd like to be waited on," he said. "But people start going bergerk around Christmas. The more people you get in the store, the more they buy."
At the K-Mart Discount Store, 3106
louis st. Shopper guided their carts
through crowded aisles to the sounds
of Muzak Christmas carols. Store
employees stocked shelves with
marmalade and marshmallows Santas
and fruitcakes.
And Dorothy McGrevey, a salesclerk in the toy department, straightened a display of Cabbage Patch toys.
"I'm hoping we'll get more of the dolls, but nobody knows," McGreevy said. "I just don't understand it. We get calls for them every day."
K-Mart had several Cabbage Patch dolls earlier in the shopping season but quickly sold out. However the store sells a stacks of new, colorful dresses, including coloring books, puzzles and comb-and-brushes sets.
Art museum will display nativity scene
Under a pine tree in the main lobby of the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum or Art, the museum is being enlarged with figures from the 18th century.
"The figures under the tree are a real holiday favorite," said Carol Shankel, public information director for the museum "People will bring their friends and relatives who might be visiting from out of town over to see the display."
The museum's collection of 50 hand-carved, wooden figures will be on display from Dec. 7 to Dec. 30. They were made sometime during the 18th century in Rome and Venice and were donated to the University of Kansas in 1917 by Saeolic Casey Thayer, the founder of the Kansas Museum of Art, Shankel said.
"We displayed the figures frequently while we were still in Spooner Hall," Shankel said. "When we moved here in 1978 we began to show the nativity scene every December.
"EACH FIGURE is individually sculpted and beautifully done, and many still have on their original clothes."
The figures are clothed with real textiles that represent the figure's social class.
"The aristocrat are dressed in velvet and silk while the peasants are dressed in garments made of homespun materials." Shoppel et al.
The figures — angels, peanuts,
musicians and religious figures — hold scale models of musical
instruments that would have played in that era.
The prespio, a nativity scene displayed in its original 18th-century architectural setting, also will be on display. Shankel said.
"WE HAVE ONE of the few original prepositions in the country." Shankel said.
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