Friday, May 4, 1979
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Used clothes stylish, inexpensive
Bv LESLIE GUILD
Staff Reporter
If Secondhand Rose were to shop in the Lawrence area, she'd probably be one of the best-dressed women in town.
One place she might shop in Lawrence would be the Bokonon, 12 E. Eighth St. Although the Bokonon is not selling as much used clothing as it has in previous years, Mark Williams, manager, said the store carries a wide selection.
The Hawaiian shirts sell for about **$2.50**. Williams said he also sold a lot of western shirts for **$5-$8**.
"Our major seller is Hawaiian print shirts," Williams said. "We sell a lot of these to younger people of the hippie type."
Williams said he thought the low cost in comparison to that of new clothes, was due to the fact that he wasn't
"Most of the people who shop here want more relaxed clothing from a more recent day and age," he said. "They aren't looking for antique clothes or items from the '20s and '30s. That's why our shirts seem to do so well."
"ALTHOUGH OUR BUSINESS in used clothing has dropped off since the early 70s, those who buy now are trying to save money," he said. "Always before wearing used clothing was more the thing to do just to pay using used clothes is done to save money."
Williams said his sales also were limited because fewer people were getting rid of all the furniture.
"I it's pretty hard to get hold of use clothes to sell," he said. "We used to have people bring them in all the time. But now we buy them on shopping at garage sales to get our stock."
Another secondhand clothing outlet in Lawrence is Quantrill's Fliell Market, 811 New Hampshire St. The flea market, which is open only on weekends, specializes in clothes for collectors, a spokesman said.
"We cater more to the collector's market, with boots that sell military clothing, Victorian dress and specialized items such as those," she said.
Most of the items sold at Quantrill's are bought at estate auctions and garage sales, she said.
VICTORIAN dresses are priced from
$12-$15
“There is markup on these items, but when compared to local retail prices on online stores, it is much lower.”
The spokesman said most buyers looked for items made of materials such as velvets and wools. She said workmanship was a bier factor in the decision to buy.
"If these clothes have worn well, a secondhand buyer will know that it is a good piece of clothing," she said. "That encourages him to buy it."
Workmanship is also a main factor in a dealer's decision to buy according to Bobbie Rieger, owner of the Orange Crane Gallerv. 1906. W Sixth St. in Topeka.
She purchases most of the Gallery's stock from people who bring the clothes to her. she said.
"THE ORIGINAL workmanship is the key factor in how the clothing will continue to hold up," she said. "People are buying
this clothing for a savings, but they still want it to wear."
Rieger said buyers considered color as well as material.
"Very basic colors such as brows and beigeels well in jackets and coats," she said. "And dainty blouses and dresses sell well in purples, blues and champagnes."
The Orange Crate Gallery, which also sells hats, jewelry, linens and other antiques, had a white-face blouse hanging in the front window that was priced at $7.50.
Although some people think there is a difference between secondhand clothes and new clothes.
"Some people would like to make you think there is a difference," she said. "But what it really boils down to is the quality of your antiques. Some were called antiques that were real junk."
SHE ALSO SAID fashion trends changed in used clothing.
"It's a month to month business," she said. "Trends of what people want to wear change very fast."
Besides selling clothing from the 1940s, such as women's jackets with padded shoulders, Rieger said, she sells a lot of "bubble tops."
"These are something I've kind of invented," she said. "I take old lace or linen tablecloths and make them into a shawl that can be worn as a jacket or over a blouse."
Prices for Rieger's bubble tops begin at $12.50.
Rieger said that she was a clothes designer before she opened her shop and that sewing bubble tops combined both her interests. But people who know the secondhand clothes business don't want made-over clothes, she said.
Rieger said people had different motives for buying.
"MOST BUYERS KNOW what they want or what you like, but some only buy because they are on a nostalgia trip," she said.
One of Rieger's competitors is next door, the Slice of Life Flea Market.
A mankini, dressed in a three-piece,
print, all-cotton suit from the 1940s stands
outside the door. The suit sells for $15.
Marketer Susan Henry said she dealt exclusively in antique clothing. Henry said she thought clothing had to be made before 1960 to be considered an artifact.
"The more elegant the item is, the better it sells." Henry said. "Too many places in this business are really just selling old clothes or only clothing from the early-1940s period."
Heury said one of her store's most expensive items was a 1940s antique wedding dress.
The dress, made of white linen and trimmed in hand-crocheted lace, sells for $85.
"WE DON'T HAVE much call for such
items," she said. "Most of our buyers are
interested in something they can wear day
to day. We sell a shack that lacks because
it doesn't have oleju."
they bought used clothing to assure that "no one else would have something just like that."
"They want something they can wear without being afraid that everyone in town will see."
Henry said a lot of her customers said
thinks more people are buying secondhand clothes.
"Once people get over the someambition they treat them as were the item before them, they really like secondhand clothes," she said. "They feel as though they are a piece of clothing."
Sports can offer summer relief
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By TAMMY TIERNEY
For some students, the mention of summer is enough to conjure up images of long, lazy afternoons spent rocking in a hammock with a cold drink at their side.
But for others, particularly those who will be sweating it out in summer school, summer is a time when one needs recreational activities.
Fortunately, both the University of Kansas and the Lawrence community have something to offer as relief from the summer school drills.
Two airborne sports that appeal to daring types are parachuting and ballooning. Although they are generally considered 'rich man's sports' because the equipment is expensive, participation without investment can be less costly.
TERRENCE HARRISON, a Lawrence
parachutist, said recently that a first jump course in parachuting cost about $55. To prepare for his first jump, a beginning eight-hour training course, Harrison said.
Included in the course are four hours of ground school, where students learn to steer their parachutes and four hours of practice landings.
"If you came out bright and early one morning, you could probably finish the course in one day," he said. "Of course, that depends on the weather. The winds have to be stable and conditions in the morning are not always the same as in the evening."
Terry Edwards, who registered the artists, said nearly 120 artists would be displaying their work. She said there would be painting, photography, pottery, woodcarving, wickerwork and jewelry at the show.
Summer is the best time for parachuting, Harrison said, because the air is so much lighter.
Art, music, fun features at show
"in the winter time, the air is much cooler at those high altitudes and parachuting
Artists, musicians and puppets will highlight Sunday's annual art in the Park
The show will be from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday in South Park in the 1100 block of **Meadow**.
The work of local and regional artists will be on display and for sale. Ten percent of the proceeds from the sale will be which is sponsoring the show with the Lawrence Park and Recreation Department.
"There is just about everything, really." Edwards said.
Karen Gould, one of the show's organizers, said art demonstrations and a puppet show about Rumpelstilkin would be going on during the afternoon.
The art demonstrations will be:
- Pewter casting—Glenice Matthews
- 3:30—Roy Sparks Country-Western Band
Gould said a crowd of about 10,000 attended last year.
Four musical groups also will perform in the park Sunday.
- Puppet show—Sandy Osborne
12:30—City Union Band
"If we have some of that May sunshine, we'll have more this year," she said.
- Water color—John Garcia
* Wearing: Pam Roulter
Gould said most of the art would be displayed on the east side of the park and Massachusetts Street would be blocked off between North Park Street and South Park Street.
1:30- KU Symposium Battles
• 2:30-KU Jazz Ensemble
If it rains by 9 a.m. the show will be postponed until May 15. A postponement will be announced later.
But Gould said, "We're not going to have rain."
doesn't really appeal to anyone but hard-core jumpers," he said.
"It's also the second-best high in the world," he said.
THE BEST REASON for anyone to take up skydiving, Harrison said, was to experience the challenge of an individual sport.
Just riding in a balloon is much less expensive, though, and costs from $60-$75 an hour for each rider, he said. The reason for this difference is that balloons give riders to help pay for their balloons.
"It's different from anything else I've ever done," he said. "Completely unlike an airplane. It's like you're standing still and the rest of the world is moving by."
FOR THE LESS brave of heart, both the Student Union Activities and the Recreational Services will offer several summer activities.
Although a hot-air balloon can cost anywhere from $7,000 to $30,000, flying one is a unusual experience, Paul Wilden, an area balloonist, said.
Despite being "completely at the mercy of the wind," balloons are quite safe and capable of traveling long distances, Wildgen said.
"It can take a long time to pay off a balloon, especially when you pay repairs that last several months."
The SUA sailing, biking and orienting clubs will sponsor programs throughout the summer, Gene Wee, SUA programs assistant. said.
"A balloon will not fall out of the sky—even with a six-foot hole in it. I've traveled as far as 125 miles, from Wichita to Junction City before," he said.
Wee said the racing-oriented biking club was split between people who rode for recreation and aspiring Olympic contenders.
Comprising KU and community people, the membership of the club is more than 106, he said. Membership fees are $5 a year for a single person and $7 a year for families.
Sailing club *members* will sail every weekend until the middle of October, Ted
The club owns 12 boats and members sail on area lakes. Membership fees are $15 and $20 per person.
ORIENTEERING, WEE said, is "cross-
In other countries it is known as "cunning rumination," "groping looping" and the "tumbling" of the brain.
country running with a map and a compass."
Participants in an orienteing meet follow a course on which several control markers, white and orange bags, are placed.
Because the event is timed, the participant tries to choose the best way to get from one marker to another. A good time is 16 minutes a mile. We said.
The bags can be found using a map and compass. When a participant finds a marker, he punches a control card to verify the location of the proceeding to the next marker. Wee said.
There are five levels of course difficulty. The easiest, coded white, is about one mile long. The most difficult is coded blue and is for eight to 10 miles long.
CAMPING BUFFS and canoers who do not have equipment can rent them this year.
Membership fees for the club are $2 a year and meets cost about $1 or $2, he said.
SUA rents sleeping bags, stoves, backacks, tents and canoes.
At SUA, students can rent equipment in advance or order it and pick it up later. They must sign a contract, pay a rental fee, a $10 damage deposit and leave their KU ID. The deposit and ID will be returned when the equipment is brought back. Wee said.
Checkout time for equipment is 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday at the SUA
Prices range from 10 cents a day for a one
quart water bottle to 8¢ a day for a canoe.
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Students who enjoy team sports can participate through either Recreational Services or Lawrence Parks and Recreation.
Lawrence Parks and Recreation will offer softball, baseball, swimming and tennis
RECREATIONAL Services will offer softball, three-man basketball, volleyball, tennis, racquetball and table tennis. All activities will begin June 11.
Tennis and swimming lessons also are available at $5 for eight swimming lessons. Tennis lessons are priced according to age and number.
KC festival to feature music by Bernstein
Kansas City honors one of the foremost composers in American music with the Leonard Bernstein Festival today through Tuesday. The festival celebrates Bernstein's 80th birthday. It is produced by the Music Department and Broadway and Murray Strauss.
Bernstein is expected to attend the festival, which will present the world premiere of two new Bernstein works. The first is a ballet based on the composer's 1928 work *Mass*. Choreographed by John Butler and danced by Judith Jamsion, a dancer with the Alvin Ailey Dance Company. It will be at 8 p.m. in City's Music Hall in Municipal Auditorium.
A new production of "Songlest," resorted for a chamber group and six vocalists, can be heard at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at the Nelson Art Galleries in Kansas City, Mo.
OTHER FESTIVAL activities include "An Evening of Mouched Music of Music"
from Broadway," sponsored by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and featuring Madeline Kahn and Larry Kert. It is at 8 p.m. tomorrow at the Music Hall. Selections include songs from "Candide," "On the Town" and "West Side Story." At a Ballet Gain at 8 Sunday evening in the Music Hall, "Fancy Free," choreographed by Jerome B. Harris, be presented. A selection by the Kansas City Ballet also is to be performed.
A featured speaker at the festival will be Clive Barnes, dance and theatre critic for the New York Post. He will speak "Music for the Dance," at 9 p.m. Sunday in the Arena at Lincoln Center.
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Nightlife
Winding up the festival Tuesday night will be "The Symphonies," a concert of three works by four composers, including "Jeremiah Symphony," featuring Karen Yarnat, metz-soo-prane; "The Age of Anxiety," featuring music Lakas Foss; and "The Greatest Concert," which concert begins at 8 p.m. in the Music Hall.
Lawrence Opera House, 642 Massachus
sts St.
- David Grisman Quintet, May 5.
- Spyro Gyra, May 4.
- First Live Gong Manifestival, May 6
Albert Collins Blues Band, May 18-19.
Music by Phil Hogan.
A Sleep at the Wheel, May 19
David Ellen Coe, May 16
- First Live Gong Manifestival
- Alasat at the Wheel Muj 12
- Albert Collins blue notes M. Mayr-Ellen*
* Paul Gray's Jazz Circle, 920 Massachusetts**
* Street, Boston, MA 02116
- Open 8 p.m. to midnight, Fr. and Sat.
- Off the Wall Hall, 737 New Hampshire St.
- Live entertainment, open 8 p.m.
Theatre
- Equus by Peter Shaffer, 8.p.m., May 4.5.
University Theatre
- Brazilian Drama Company, 8 p.m., May 7,
University Theatre.
- University Choirs, Choruses and Orchestra 1300 m. Max. Bach Auditorium
Concerts
Exhibits
- University Dance Company, 8 p.m., May 4.5, Haskingham Hall.
- Art and Design Gallery, Visual Arts Building, National Center Box Exhibit, through May 31.
76 'Gallery, 7 East 7th St.' Artists Paint Flowers and "sculpture by Marguerite Baurin."
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- Kansas Union Gallery, Kansas Union, Art by Scholarship Art Students, through May 8.
Arts & Leisure Courthouses theme of photo show
Restoration activity at Douglas County Courthouse in Lawrence gives timeliness to an exhibit being presented at the Spencer Art Museum.
"The project is interesting in many different ways. It's interesting to me, as a curator of photography, as really beautiful examples of photographic art," Tom Southall of Spencer Museum said. Southall described the exhibit as a project that contained art, social and architectural history.
The exhibit, "Court House: A Photographic Document," will be shown at Spencer's Raymond White Gallery until May 22. It's one of two identical exhibits touring the country, "Court House" traces the American courthouse through 120 photographs illustrating American architecture.
Douglas County began renovating its courthouse in 1977.
"It's related to the culture of both the past and the present."
White Gallery's walls are lined with famed photographs of courthouse spaces, sculptures and murals from courthouse interiors to modern structures by famous architects such as Leibniz.
The project opened March 1978 in identical exhibits at the Art Institute of Chicago, where it will be exhibited during its sponsor, Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Inc., a liquor producer, commissioned 24 photographers for the project in 1976, housed and courthouses were photographed.
"Court House" is touring under the auspices of the American Federation of Arts and The National Trust for Historic Preservation.
By VINTON SUPPLEE
Reviewer
French flavor distinct in 'Once in Paris'
Two hundred and three years after declaring their independence, Americans still have an inertity complex when they learn that Frenchmen in particular. The French presuppose mainly more joie de vivre. It must be something in the air or, perhaps, in their heart.
Although it was written and directed by Frank Gilroy, an American, "Once in Paris" is the flavor of French films in terms of style and content. A comedy of manners it also features. The focus on friendship and sexual relationships. Because comedy and tragedy are derived from the same thing—someone else's humiliation and failure—it's possible to induce amusement and its own unholyly. The ticket is containing balance between both elements. "Once in Paris" is agile enough to succeed.
The film focuses on an American's bumbling attempts to adapt himself to a French lifestyle. Michael, played by Wayne Rogers, is an archetypically repressed American, obsessed with his work and family. He flies into Paris to rewrite the script of a mangled French film. The studio provides him with a driver, Jean-Paul, played by Jake Tweed. He is asked by Jean-Paul asks Michael at what speed he likes to travel. Michael replies "Just average," and that remark seems to sum up his life.
MICHAEL DEFINITELY elaws clam and Jean-Paul initiates a determined tutelage to solve this problem by persuading Michael to become an educator in the process, but two men become friends.
Loosening Michael up isn't very difficult. He says he enjoys his work but he suffers through a story conference in abject boredom. When Jean-Paul suggests that he might improve his marriage by sleeping with a girl, he agrees. His wife and will always be faithful to her. However, his dutiful phone calls to her consist of nothing but resentful arguments.
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Michael obliviously desires other women but until he observed Jean-Paul's easy filetings, he was too scared.
Urged on by Jean-Paul, Michael starts an affair with an elegant Englishwoman named Susan, played by Gayle Humicutt. Susan makes it known that she is a company, their relationship is one of temporary sexual convenience. Despite Jean-Paul's warnings not to take things too seriously, Michael forces himself to fall in love with Susan to justify his adultery. When Jean-Paul sleeps under anger, Michael angirly lashes out at both of them.
EVENTUALLY MICHAEL comes to terms with Susan before she leaves Paris. She has been in a relationship with Jean-Paul's betrayal of their friendship hitches more than losing Susan. The film ends with their reconciliation, suggesting that man can camaraderie is a more positive way to build relationships.
Michael's inept collusions with French customs set up most of the film's wry humor. Rogers uses convincing American mannerisms in his role, switching from defensive passivity to overbearing behavior, but he thinks he becomes more "Euroamerian."
The film is stolen by Jack Lenoir as Jean-Paul. His affairABILITY and Gail charm are beautiful, yet he is too coldly beautiful as Susan but her part is all glossy surface. Her romance with Michael consists of picture postcard strolls along the Seine—not much to destroy a marriage
"Once in Paris" presents an idealized France of warm restaurants, lovely boulevards and glowing wine. The French character, as represented by Jean-Paul, is more playful, witty and engaging than the neurotic and gaudy Alexander Montpellier contention. Maybe the French do have more. "Once in Paris" seems to say so.