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LBJ Introduces New Hat Trends
NEW YORK —(UPI)— President Johnson, an addict of western style hats, has had a momentous impact on the men's hat industry. Almost every major manufacturer is introducing the LBJ hat this Spring with presidential approval.
Creation of what is called a "three gallon" hat for city wear is the first major development in men's hat styles in many years and its public acceptance is expected to be given a boost with a Fall Hat Festival following the Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
The cowboy look was taken up by American athletes participating in the Pan American Games at Sao Paulo, Brazil, last year and will be given a worldwide introduction at the Olympics. The Olympic parade hats might be described as the five gallon size.
FOR YEARS JOHNSON has got his hats from the John B. Stetson Company or Byer-Rolnick at Garland, Tex., where a Dress Western or Rancher's Hat was designed for use as friendship gifts at his LBJ ranch. These were a little more western than the LBJ.
Imprinted in the lining of the gift hats is a solid map of Texas in gold with Johnson City and the LBJ ranch in red, blue and black in a white area in the heart of the state. Johnson also has the equipment to stamp gold initials in the lining.
One LBJ version designed by Charles H. Salesky, president of the Hat Corporation of America, has a brim scaled down to 2 inches with crown lower than the Texas version.
It has a slightly lower center crease crown, side pinches and a brim with a slight curl. It may be worn off the face with brim up, or as a snap brim. This is basically the LBJ hat but each manufacturer will have slight variations.
RIBBONS ARE VERY narrow and the most popular color is "silver
belly" though others are black medium brown and light gray. Salsky feels the modifications will make a man feel as much at home wearing it down Madison Avenue as in the southwest.
We was so confident of success of the hat he ordered 100 tons of white fur in France to assure uninterrupted production. He also reported the response was so great from nonwestern areas he designed a Lady LBJ for anyone who wants a his or her effect. The Lady LBJ is worn strictly off the face.
And for summer you can buy an LBJ in straw in either Panama or Milan-type braids.
I. Benjamin Parrill, president of Miller Bros. Hat Co., which designed and made the Pan American and Olympic hats, admits they were inspired by Johnson's western image. "The psychological influence of the president is vitally significant," he said.
OTHER HAT NEWS: Predictably there are more lighter shades ranging from natural straws to white Panamas to go with the new lighter shades in suits, and lighter felts with narrower bands. A new Spring shape for men is the Shikari," marked by sharp angular shaping of the crown. For boys it is a "Slipstream," molded and with narrow brim.
Trims for straw hats run from crisp checks through Indian Madras, regimental stripes, batiks, paisleys and Shantungts with some woven straw bands. In sports or "fun" hats the sky is the limit with trims including anything from miniature beer cans to fish nets and golf clubs.
More subdued sports hats and caps in cloth run from seersucker to solid poplins in any color of the rainbow. One seen recently at Palm Springs, Calif., as worn by TV's Andy Williams was a white, flattop hat of water-repellant poplin with a bright club stripe band.
Weekend to Include International Festival
Exhibits and a program of skits will be featured in the International Festival tomorrow night.
Exhibits from various countries, represented by students at KU. will be in Hoch auditorium and opened to the public at 6 p.m.
The program, consisting of skis and acts by groups representing various countries, will begin at 7:30.
Friday, April 17, 1964
Gloria Macchiavello, Santiago City, Chile, graduate student, is general chairman of the festival.
AEC Workers Hunt Radiation With Rod. Gun
RICHLAND, Wash. —(UPI)— Charles McCoy and Bob Beavers have a license to hunt and fish the year around. It's their job. Furthermore, they are provided with ammunition guns, rods, bait, lures and even a boat.
Beavers and McCoy work for the Radiation Protection Operation at the Atomic Energy Commission's laboratories at the Hanford Atomic Works near here.
McCoy and Beavers are part of a team that checks for radiation within a radius of 700 miles of Hanford. Other personnel investigate milk supplies, test drinking water and pasture grass, and sample air as far away as Great Falls, Mont.
IT IS THEIR JOB to check for possible contamination from the huge plutonium plant. Consequently they fish the Columbia River from McNary Dam to Priest Rapids. And they shoot ducks and geese on the Hanford Reservation. Their quarry is then examined for radioactivity
But McCoy and Beavers are the lucky ones. All they do the year around is hunt and fish.
THEY BAG ABOUT 100 ducks and geese a year and they can do it from a powerboat, a privilege denied ordinary nimrods. Their happy hunting grounds inside the reservation boundaries are closed to every other hunter.
Male Fashion Features Spring Striped Shirts
NEW YORK — (UFI) — The profusion of striped shirts in the 1964 spring and summer lines once again shows that many American manufacturers draw their inspiration from London where bold stripes were the rage a couple of years ago.
And, ignoring the fall line now in the manufacturer's showrooms, and trying to forget that recent style shows in London featured a gold lame evening shirt and a business shirt edged with what looked suspiciously like tatting, here is a report on shirts in the stores now:
Stripes are the dominant feature in both business and sports shirts, ranging from quarter-inch width in colors as dark as navy on white to pencil thin stripes or multi-stripes against a white or off white background.
Also new for spring is a profusion of shirt-jackets, sometimes called shirt-jacs. These are hip length, are worn outside the shirt, and usually have an adjustable waistband.
MANUFACTURERS HAVE come up with a wide array of colors for the stripes and in doing so have provided a new group of solid colors to complement them.
In collar styles the button-down continues to be No. 1 in the traditional field but there are a few revivals — the long pointed non-button-down of the 20s and 30s, with or without a pin. Spread collars remain tops in sports shirts.
Some stretch fabrics are already on the market but are not generally available in all lines. Some are in cotton but many are combinations of polyester and cotton and such stretch yarns as Dyca.
THE BIG COLOR news is the background, featured under such names as Old Salt, Slightly White, Parchment and — sometimes — just plain off white. This makes an ideal background for such loud colors as Chapel Hill orange, bottle green, burgundy and chocolate.
Gant features an oxford voile in zephyr weight . . . a pebble stripe series in quarter-inch stripes which
are not bold because the pebbly weave presents a broken effect . . . a cotton gingham overplaid looking almost like madras.
Van Heusen emphasizes taper in its 417 collection with slightly longer button-down collars . . . Favored colors are bottle green, camel and burgundy . . . In synthetics the emphasis was in color — 14 in all in solids and stripes.
Creighton features a new Cambala cloth with foulard and paisley prints or muted vari-Roman or regimental stripes on dark corn . . . a navy-striped oxford to be worn with blazers.
Merrill-Sharpe showed striped "shorties" shirts with matching kimono with mandarin sleeves for beach or other lounging.
Shirt-jacs were No. 1 at Enro. One particularly handsome was a heavy weight cotton mesh which looked like a lightweight knit cardigan with Italian collar.
Manhattan, which introduced its V-matic adjustable collar last year in white only, brought it out in stripes and short sleeves. Stripes ran wild in the D.Q. line but there were also tattersalls and herringbone weaves.
Hathaway emphasizes a light color called India Lemon in both dress and sport shirts in stripes, checks and solid colors . . . gingham checks shown in business shirts.
Arrow showed uncompromising stripes in gold, bottle green, red, Chapel Hill orange, blue and gray in varying widths . . . Collar and sleeves size in boys' wear with heavy emphasis on taper for the teen-ager.
B. V.D. came up with colored T-shirts with pockets in a dozen colors to be worn tucked in or flopping outside. Excello showed a long button down collar with or without buttons.
Eagle showed a longer spread collar and a round collar without eyelets. Truval went in for a broader roll, longer point button down. Wings showed a group of higher bandcollars.
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