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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C„ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1941
New Date Frocks Add Rhythm
To College Girl’s Wardrobe
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
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P ROBABLY “full credit for chic”
won’t be listed on college report
'cards this fall, but it’s one course
that is getting plenty of “cram
ming” the country over, as college
girls settle down to the routine of
classroom and campus life.
According to a recognized authori
ty who annually advises hundreds
of college girls on how to buy and
how to wear clothes, as\part of
the functionalized “how to live” cur
riculum on a Midwestern campus,
grooming has a significant influence
on the adolescent girl. There is a
relationship between success and a
feeling of well-being which springs
from the knowledge that one’s best
self is being expressed through the
proper habits of posture, dress and
general bearing.
“Wardrobe rhythm” is the way
this authority describes the proper
assemblage of clothes that are ade
quate for all occasions. Being well
dressed on a modest budget is a
matter of wardrobe integrating. One
of the weaknesses of the average
American girl is that she buys a
one-occasion dress or an eye-appeal
ing number on the spur of the mo
ment without giving any thought to
how it will fit into her general ward
robe scheme.
The girl who wants to assemble a
wardrobe that will be adequate for
all occasions should decide on a col
or scheme for the season and stick
to it. She should select frocks, en
sembles, suits, coats and accesso-
ries that are interchangeable, mean
while being sure that a dress or en
semble is suitable for wear on a
variety of occasions. Variety can
be achieved with bright belts, bags
and carefully selected costume jew
elry.
If you are planning a basic fall
and winter wardrobe on a limited
budget you might include a gray or
tan herringbone tweed man-tailored
jacket with a matching bias-cut
skirt, a campus coat of bright red
and gray or tan and green wool
plaid lined with gabardine for gen
eral utility wear, a wool “dressy”
dress for dates and those “special”
occasions, a wool reefer in gray or
brown to harmonize with the skirt
of the suit or to be worn over the
wool dress and a separate blouse-
and-skirt dinner dress. These items,
with a collection of sweaters and
blouses, will keep you looking smart
on all occasions.
Three simple “date” dresses that
will major in chic for all more or
less dress-up occasions are shown in
the illustration. For “five and aft
er” the “good little black dress” is
ever a loyal standby. The tea dress
of black crepe, left, with its long
torso line accented by scallops and
its American beauty red velvet bow
at the neckline, should win high hon
ors. The tricorn hat adds just the
right note of dash.
Off to the movies? Wear the “date
special” shown to the right and
you’ll steal the show. It’s tan with
brown passementerie across the
square neckline and around the
waist. And the skirt—well, it looks
as though the dirndl is here to stay.
A characteristic feature of this sea
son’s fashions is the importance at
tached to light wool daytime dresses
in oatmeal, tan, beige, muted greens
and dusky browns. The emerald
green taffeta dinner dress in the
center, above,- should be a “come”
signal for the stagline. The frock
with its slimming torso line ending
in a peplum will be voted an ideal
basic evening dress.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Feature Ensembles
In Costume Jewelry
It is a season of pretentious, im
portant - looking costume jewelry.
The massive sort predominates,
such as huge wide bracelets with
massive necklaces. Great clusters
of colored stones or rhinestones form
spectacular lapel pieces. Topaz and
amber are in high fashion, to wear
with autumn browns.
The newest effect comes from
three separate pieces, varying in
size but otherwise identical, that
clip to dress or coat lapel in groups.
Matched to these are earrings,
bracelets and often finger rings.
Campus Favorite
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Jet Gives New Sparkle
To All Black Ensemble
For the sophisticate who likes to
“say it” in terms of smart apparel
there is an avenue of approach that
leads directly to heights of modern
ism. It is the “black as a crow”
ensemble that is being exploited
this season among the ultra fash
ionable. To achieve this your black
crepe or jersey dress is flecked with
jet, intensified with jet passemen
terie at throat and sleeves. A tiny
jet hat with a snood at the back
or a drape carries out the theory
of seductive black. Gloves are
black, and wispy sheer black silk
hose are worn with black suede
shoes. The hand bag is either jet
embellished or of lassie suede to
match the shoes.
Use Lace Trim
Now that peplums and tiers and
flounces and overskirt effects are in
fashion, designers are enhancing
them with edgings of either black
or white lace. Lace yokes are
also being featured. Removable,
very sheer lace guimpes are sold
at the neckwear counters.
Blouses! You can’t have enough
of them! Here is a beauty. It is
one of the most stunning campus
originals brought out this season. It
has long full sleeves, a round, high
neck, fly-front fastening and double
button-over pockets that are very
new. It carries a convincing mes
sage of “style” told in terms of
sophisticated simplicity. The colors
are luscious pastels to contrast with
dark fall clothes.
Little Folks to Wear
Colorful Long Hosiery
No more winter chill for little
folks, the latest news being to the
effect that long stockings in bright
colors will be worn again. They
are arriving in bright attractive
colors that will make appeal to littla
girls who have an eye for pretty
as well as practical apparel.
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Notes of an
Innocent Bystander
The Front Pages: President
Roosevelt, who has taken many a
lashing from the press, saluted Na
tional Newspaper Week with a mes-
age to publishers to guard the press’
freedom. In short, he urges it to
hang on to its right to slam him . . .
Royal Cortissoz, celebrating half a
century with the H-Trib, also said
something worth remembering
about press freedom. “Opinions,”
he said, “#re a critic’s capital, and
he is useless if he cannot find free
dom of expression for them” . . .
Virginio Gayda, the typewriter that
talks like Mussolini, urges the Fas
cist dailies to fake news to keep the
people’s spirit up. According to
dispatches from Italy, the Italian
people would prefer to have him
fake up a few plates of spaghetti.
• • • —
The Wireless: Jan Masaryk’s
broadcast was heartbreaking enough
to wring a tear from an isolationist.
He reported that the victims of the
Hun slaughters in Czechoslovakia
are not the revolters, but just any
helpless Czechs they lay their hands
on . . . The squeeze is on the Nazis
in South America, however, take it
from broadcaster Herbert M. Clark.
It’s getting so uncomfortable for
them in Argentina, he said, that
some of Der Fuehrer’s busiest dag
ger troops are screaming alluva sud
den that they’re Swiss . . . C. Fadi-
man and B. Hope ping-ponging hu
morous insults at each other made
laughs come like bananas — in
bunches . . . Eleanor Roosevelt’s
chatter does more to keep her lis
teners awake than the coffee she
plugs.
• • • —
The Story Tellers: Runyon makes
a monkey out of the fiction rules in
“Broadway Incident,” his entertain
ing piece in Cosmopolitan. His
hero is a drama critic, which is
definitely a contradiction in terms
. . . Garbo is news for the funniest
reason. She used to collar space on
being a mysterious recluse, out of
the world. Now Life blows her to
lots of pages because she's a simple,
friendly girl like you, Toots . . .
Paul Gallico’s word-halo for Lou
Gehrig in the Nov. Cosmopolitan
creeps into your heart like a smile
from a baby . . . Writes Kyle Crich
ton in Collier’s: “When ecstatic
cries of dah-ling greet a Hollywood
actress entering Giro’s, she knows
that her last picture has been a
success” ... Or her first marriage
has been a failure.
• • • —
The Magic Lanterns: The cinema
gets a pretty good report card.
“Hold Back the Dawn” is a large
afternoon for the sighing set.
Charles Boyer plays put and take
with two hearts, Olivia de Havil-
land’s and Paulette Goddard’s (who
is a heel with a tender side). The
yarn, about how he marries his way
past the immigration gate, is skill
fully told . . . Things are milder in
“It Started With Eve,” but all oof’ly
nice. Deanna Durbin is the same
likeable lass, and Chas. Laughton
is the funny-mans of the occasion
. . . Tom Harmon runs and kicks
a gamut full in “Harmon of Michi
gan.” Football shots from the
newsreels are woven into the love
story, which also looks like cuts
from previous films.
• • • —
Typewriter Ribbons: F. E. Freed
man: Is the Atlantic Ocean ver-
boten or fer boatin’? . . . Kin Hub
bard: Ther ought t’be some way
feat celery so it wouldn’ sound like
you wuz steppin’ on a basket . . .
Youngstown Vindicator: The gen
erals most likely to defeat America
are general inertia and general
apathy . . . Toronto Star Weekly:
All Europe is now divided into three
parts: occupied, unoccupied, and
pre-occupied . . . Olin Miller: It’s
when a man first feels his age that
he has the hardest time being it
. . . Damon Runyon: She has an
ice-cream cone where her heart is
supposed to be ... M. Foster:
The plaza was drowsy with history
. . . H. Klurfeld: She was a good
secretary, but clockeyed.
• • • —
New York Heartbeat
The Big Parade: Ambassador and
Mrs. Martins from Brazil at the
Stork ringside cementing Good Will
with United Statesmen—by applaud
ing the rhumbacrobats . . . the
Joe E. Browns staying young in the
sinful places up ’til almost half-past
eleven! . . . Sonja Henie swapping
a chilly howja-dooo with her boss,
Darryl Zanuck . . . The Drew Pear
sons of Washington gaping at The
Big Town’s tallest buildings, the hix
. . . Beatrice Kay and her defini
tion of a diplomat in Washington or
on Broadway: “A guy who knows
how to keep his chin up without
sticking out his neck.”
• • • —
New York Newsreel
Subwayites gazing at people
across the aisle as if they were a
blank wall . . . The once famous
actress who now performs in five-
and-ten-cent stores, exhibiting all
kinds of kitchen utensils . . . The
debutantes who have everything to
make life worth living, yet few of
them have learned how to live . . .
The amazing dexterity of cabbies
weaving through the traffic, listen
ing to their radio, talking to pas
sengers and smoking a cigar at the
same time.
'T'HE seasons’ fruit, crocheted in
gay shades of gimp, will add
that attractive note to your kitchen
as shade pulls, tie-backs and
other decorations.
• • *
Pattern 2921 contains directions for mak
ing accessories; illustrations of hem and
stitches materials required. Send your
order to:
Sewing Circle Needleeraft Dept.
82 Eighth Ave. New York
Enclose 15 cents in coins for Pat
tern No.
Name
Address.....
First Political Cartoon
The first political cartoon in this
country was designed by Benja
min Franklin and appeared in his
Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. It
depicts a snake cut in eight parts,
representing the eight colonies, and
is captioned “Join or Die,” in an
attempt to unite the people during
the French and Indian war. For
over 20 years, whenever an occa
sion arose to consolidate the colo
nies, this crude drawing was re
printed, thus probably exerting
influence over a longer period of
time than any other political car
toon ever drawn.
Pattern 2921.
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