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THE CAROUNA JOURNAL Wednesday, Nor. 3, 1»I5 Page Three CLUB & CAMPUS FASHIONS By CHIP TOLBERT, ESQUIRE’S Fashion Editor INDIAN SUMMER begins to fade, and autumn arrives in a blaze of color. Chances are, those chilly afternoons will find you rum maging through last year’s sweater collection, hoping the moth balls did their work. Let’s bring your Pall ’65 sweater wardrobe up to date with the two new knitwear trends for campus. THE COMPETITION STRIPE, adapted from the stripes that identify team players in com petitive sports, contributes a refreshing, color ful look in campus fashion. The placement of the stripes is all-important—and the choice is almost limitless. They can be chest-high hori zontals clear across the body and sleeve, or broad verticals down one side. Double and triple sets of narrow stripes circle the sleeve, or stripe its length from shoulder to cuif. CONTRAST IS THE THING. .. and the bolder, the better. Look for red-hot combinations like red with black and gold stripes; or blue with red and white; in brown with green and gold, or black with red and white. Anything goes for the sweater beneath the stripe. Pullovers or cardigans, crew-necks, V-necks and turtlenecks, all compete for the Competition Stripe. They’ll be found in fiat and bulky knits, mohairs and ribbed or cable knits, as well. GREAT SCOTS in canny plaids present an other top choice in campus sweaters. They include the whole panorama of plaids... tradi tional tartan or clan plaids, smart argyle dia monds with criss-cross overmarkings, and novel diamond patterns that extend the argyle in new directions. THE LOOK OF LUXURY is underscored in a broad range of flattering texture and sur face variations. Look for classic Shetlands in brushed textures, mohairs, and fiber blends of all kinds. Styling details again are wide open to satisfy individual tastes. Still, high crew necks and turtlenecks, both the turnover type and the “mock” turtle, will cop top honors. THE GOLDEN TOUCH in lustrous gold crossweaves frequently appears in background or in accent tones. Traditional heather mixtures and natural tans and browns oifer a smart, conservative appearance. The more intense colors—greens, reds, and blues—are often frosted with white for a new and unusual look. But bold or blended, muted or bright. Great Scots are definite campus swingers for ’65. THE GAMUT OF GOLD spans every imaginable shade in knitted or woven sport shirts. From light and bright to tawny tones, touched with orange, and on to camel colors, the impact of The Golden Touch will be apparent throughout your casualwear ward robe. Mellow golden tones add fresh sparkle in interwoven accents to enrich the popular plaids and strong stripes in shirts, sweaters, vests... even in robes and pajamas. It blends perfectly with other colors to create unusual heathers and mixtures shot with gold, and also provides a vivid accent with solid shades. In The Golden Touch, fashion has discovered a real gold-mine with virtually unlimited appeal on the nation’s campuses. FOR A PARTING SHOT, a word about hosiery. In the sports category, you’ll find a wide variety of textured knits, often in heather shades. Brushed textures and rib treatments continue as campus favorites. For more formal occasions, look for the practical and fashionable over the calf sock. It’s a sure way to keep those hairy legs” out of the picture. © ises by esquire, inc. PC Highly Respected CRAIG (Editor’s note: 'This is the second in a series by Betty Ann Craig telling of her experiences in Ecuador during the summer,) By BETTY ANN CRAIG Having installed ourselves in the hotel in Cuenca, and resign ing ourselves to another Spar tan shower, we d ragged down stairs for the e vening meal, and to discuss PRAM’S b u s i- ness in Cuenca. The four-course meal we were served was i worth the trip f itself. Ecuador- sjans, like most Latin countries, have a tremendous noon-day and evening meals—none of this “grab a sandwich and run” business. Hie meals are includ ed in the hotel bill. 'The average pueblo hotel charges about $3.(X) a day for room and meals. Of course, some we stayed in only rat^ that. ’The neSt morning we were awakened shortly after the last rooster crow by the cries of a street vendor, and die rattle of wagon wheels versos the beep of a foreign car. It was somewhat hard for me at first to get used to a ’53 Chevrolet being a “foreign car”. Ecua dor, having no automobile in dustry, has had to import every macidne on whe^s. Cuenca is a very quaint, lovely city of about 50,0(X) people. It reminded me much of a small, clean, country town in the U.S. The pace is slow; mechanization has yet to per vade and destroy the peaceful atmosphere. Urban construction is typical pueblo, concrete stucco and cobblestone streets, with a central plaza and vari ous shops scattered around. Once again, there are very tew fixed prices in Ecuador. Buying is a matter of bargaining. With my Scotch attitude toward money, it didn’t take me long to catch on to the trick. First you ask the price, haggle, then ask the “last possible price”. Then you start to walk out the door unconcerned. Invariably, the shopkeeper will then call you back, so you offer him half of the “last price.” When you finish, you actually pay about a third of the original offer. Somehow, though, they still manage to make a profit. During our three-day visit there, our PRAM activities were of course oiu- major inter est. Among many things, we visited the local newspaper and were interviewed with ques tions of political, socio-econom ic bearing. That evening, the printed edition of our confer ence gave us a few doubts as to the political leanings of this editor who interviewed us. We were later informed that there were three Socialists in Cuen ca, and this fellow happened to be one of them. One of our girls evidently impressed the son of a wealthy land-owner in Cuenca, for the next night, we were surprised by a midnight serenade, com plete with a six-piece band and three singers. I doubt if the other hotel gu^ts appreciated this gesture, but we were ecstatic. It was the first of many serenades we had during our trip. «. ’This Is How We Go To Cuenca, So Ewly In The Morning Of major importance, we interviewed the Military Qiief of five provinces, whose office is in Cuenca. This man is direolly' under the Military Junta that is now in power in Ecuador. I was expecting to be given an overly-whitewashed success story of the Junta’s achievements, but was sur prised by his opinions and attitudes. This “Junta man” also happened to be one of the few. In the many Ecuadorian officials that we had discus sions with, who sympathized with the U.S. position in the Santa Domingo crisis. I might insert here, that we had an appointment with the four-man Military Junta in Quinto, but when we were returning, they cancelled all appointments due to the crisis presented by the riots. MET PEACE CORPS Here, as in the other cities, we met and talked with Peace Corps workers. Peace Corps is the most highly respected or ganization of U.S. origin in Ecuador. Ihe work near, and in Cuenca ranged from teach ing, forming work “coopera tives”, (labor unions are frowned upon), to building bridges, school houses, or farming. Peace Corps has the bare minimum for financial existence, and yet it is more successful than the struggling Alliance for Progress projects, fiiat have unlimited sources in comparison.' Most of these commendable workers there live under what would be extreme conditions for us, yet they get the job done that mere dollars can’t do. For example, one of our friends down there rides by horseback. 80 kilometers (about 60 miles), to get to the nearest telegraph once a month. ’Try that. Most impressive was o o r visit to the tire factory, “Llan- tas General”, General Tires. It was initiated in Cuenca by American technicians, but is now operated under Ecuadorian management. This last point refutes the ever-present com plaint of American exploitation through technical assistance- By our standards this factory was tops. The wages were fine, with special services and com pany benefits. They even ob served the use of a time-cldck pumdi card. “ALSO A LITTLE PIG” Our return bus trip was almost equal to the first, including the same type of travel companions, but what’s a trip by bus without a few chickens? This time were was also a little ^ going to market, j u d' g 1 ng from ttie squeals. But this was nothing compared to the concern we had over getting back into Quito. The night we left Cuenca, the first of the riots started in Guayaquil and our base, (^to. When our bus momentarily broke down in a pueblo, we heard over a radio in a cafe that the control point at the entrance to Quito was closed to internationals, and hgre we were bouncing back to a closed city. A control point is like a city and major town. All traffic is stopped and generally searched for fugitives and cmi- traband. CHEVROLET CO. QUALITY SALES & SERVICE 710 S. Tryon A (2) locations to better serve v*vf UIXIIXX cpLUy/CAT ,5QQ 3732 Colkraw Center. We feoture Conservative, Traditional, and Continental clothing fashions. Tra ditional fashions ore featured throughout the two stores. We solicit your potriKiage. The Manaa^nteni
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