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FAL FREE FOR ALL
FASHION GOING RETRO
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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NOT-SO-HOT GRUNGE
HIGH TECH THAT'S HOT NOTEBOOK COMPUTERS WINDOWS 95
By Tara Trenary
Kansan staff writer
Paul Kotz / KAMBAN
from the grunge look to reu-
KU students are reverting
back to '70s clothes this fail.
But when it comes to comput-
ers, they are thrusting them-
A very popular shirt is the "bowling shirt," which is covered with blocks divided by bands of stripes, Owen said.
Pink, gray and black plaid shirts also are popular this fall among women, while men are wearing olive, black and cream solid and plaid shirts made of heavy flannel or fleece.
He said that college students still were wearing basic denim but that they were going with a looser fit and wider legs.
The grunge look was hot last year, and for some students it still may be the thing. But for those keeping up with the times, going retro is the only way to go, said Jeff Owen, manager of the Buckle, 805 Massachusetts St.
Windows 95 from Microsoft is all the rage now with computer users.
College women are sporting tank dresses with knit tops
underneath and long-sleeved crop tops withzippers in the front,Owen said. College menenjoy a traditional style,including basic khalidpleated skirts for casual or dress-up occasions.
A "bowling shirt" — covered with colored blocks divided by bands of stripes — is popular this fall, say Lawrence retailers.
popular this fall," Owen said.
For working students or students who are interviewing for jobs, the styles have become more fitted.
or dress-up occasions. Traditional colors will be
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"There's a continuation of the classic look," said Kathy Swanson, manager of Spectator's, 710 Massachusetts St.
She said that women's suits were more fitted at the waist and more feminine, as opposed to boxy and masculine. The shoulders are defined, and suit jackets are curved at the waist.
There has been a change in textiles, and microfiber, a form of polyester that has fibers woven into it by computers, has become popular.
"The emphasis is on year-round wear," Swanson said. "I own three polyester suits, and I really like them."
She said that the new fabric and more fitted style would travel hold up well year-round, and the new fabric made it easier to and wear clothes.
n need to watch old gangster es to see what's hot in suits. 'lege men prefer the traditional yle with a European fit," said ln Estes, salesman at Eas-
This style of suit is single-breasted with three buttons and a longer coat. Usually men only button the top and middle buttons. Estes said.
He said that dark colors were fashionable, including dark earth tones such as taupe, brown and olive.
Whether these styles stay in fashion is up to the consumer. Anne Reagan, Omaha sophomore, is skeptical.
"I think retro is cute, but I don't
hink it will last that long," she said.
Reagan said that trends came and went quickly, and because retro was popular in the '70s and then faded out, it will fade out today also.
Blue and navy KU baseball caps, hooded pull-over windbreakers and matching KU boxers and T-shirts are popular among students, she said.
Jayhawk clothing always has been popular at KU, but now the rage is custom-made KU clothes.
"We can custom order anything," said Kelly Krape, manager of Jayhawk Spirit, 935 Massachusetts St.
Decked out in their new stylin clothes, KU students also are focusing on computer trends this fall.
"Students want computers that go where they go," said Mike Swalm, computer hardware and software buyer for the Jayhawk Bookstore, 1420 Crescent Road.
Windows 95 is a new, graphical, full-featured operating system for IBM-compatible computers. It offers everything from the ability to interface with the Internet to word-processing, he said.
Integrated software packages also are popular among students. Only one package has to be installed, and students have all they need to be productive in college, Swain said.
Notebook computers are popular right now because they have everything students need when they are away from home, Swalm said. But Windows 95 is the rage now.
Compilers — programming languages for writing programs — are selling well this fall, he said.
The dayhawk Bookstore only sells to students, faculty and staff, so watch out—you might get carded.
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pet rabbit (maximum fine $20,000). In December, two O k l a h o m a police officers faced charges
In June in Van Nuys, Calif., Raphael Dale Rodriguez, 24, was charged with beating his girlfriend (maximum fine in California, $1,000) and
— one of beating his girlfriend so badly she suffered a ruptured eardrum (maximum jail time in Oklahoma, 90 days), and the other of kicking a cat at the Oklahoma City airport (maximum prison time, five years). And in May in Tallahassee, Fla., sheriff's deputies charged Aaron Moore with clubbing his mother to death. The deputies were set to charge Moore's friend, David Bailey, with having sex with her corpse when they discovered there is no law in Florida against having sex with a corpse.
In May, state police in Tennessee arrested Jack Allan Iles and charged him with telephone harassment after he called in a bomb threat to the state attorney general's office in Nashville. According to the state employee who received the call, Iles threatened to deliver an Oklahoma City-style bomb but then asked for the address of the office.
A man escaped after robbing a First National Bank branch in Farmington, N.M., in March and brandishing a road flare that he called a bomb. Police later discovered that his getaway vehicle was a white Dodge Caravan that he had taken for a test drive from a local dealer and returned immediately after pulling off the robbery.
Police Blotter
In March in Bristol, Ind., someone burglarized an apartment and stole a Sega video game. The only lead police had was that the burglar used the toilet while committing the crime and did not flush. The victim's daughter solved the crime by identifying a 13-year-old neighbor boy who was known around the apartment complex for not flushing.
Grocery store owner John A. Tavlian was placed under citizen's arrest in March after a confrontation with a Frito Lay delivery man who had removed non-Frito Lay products that Tavlian had displayed on a Frito Lay rack. Allegedly, Tavlian threatened to kill the man by pummeling him with packages of potato chips.
In Boston in July, veteran criminal Nick George Montos, 78, who was the first person to make the FIB's Ten Most Wanted list twice, was arrested in an unsuccessful antique store robbery. Owner Sonia Palne, 73, grabbed an aluminum bat and clubbed Montos three times, knocking him to his knees. When police arrived a short time later, Palne slugged him again to knock a gun out of his hand.
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