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Creative Jeweler Hopkins
Is One Of The Best
In
US
By LOWRY WHITE
"Contemporary jewelry should
be designed and created for the
person who wants something dif
ferent, not for the mass market."
Tbis is the feeling of Charles
Hopkins, creative jeweler of Chap
el Hill.
He is not just an ordinary
jewelry designer. He has creat-
paries tiopifis oY
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Photo by Fred Randall
Tie Season Opens
For Lady Shoppers
NEW YORK (LTD The Christ
mas season is upon us and with
it Christmas ties. So to the wom
en who buy 75 per cent of men's
neckties in the United States an
appeal to reason and a return
to the classics.
Manufacturers load the shelves
each year with wild and improb
able designs to the point where
millons are returned the day af
ter Christmas by unhappy males
who wouldn't be caught dead in a
tie that was inspired by a chintz
slipcover or the aurora borealis.
This does not mean that a man
must wear forever the classic
paisley prints, the repps in well
ordered regimental stripes, the
wool challis with its tiny spaced
pattern, the small allover patterns
cf floral or geometric design. But
if he does he will be well dressed.
If a man wants to wear some
bright and vivid tie that is dif
ferent let him pick it out him-
self. But if you feel compelled, to
buy someone a tie stick to the
patterns where it is almost im
possible to make a mistake.
Perhaps the classic of them all
is the ancient madder, made with
muted colorings on a heavy foul
ard napped to give a frosted or
dusty appearance and a feel al
most like suede. They come in
small geometric prints or print
ed in small geometric designs.
The colors of the pure ancient
madder and the name comes
from the madder root which in
ancient days was all there was
available are green, blue, choc
olate brown, a soft yellow and
a terra cotta. They are muted
colors and definitely not loud.
Another classic, perhaps for the
older man, is a Macclesfield, nam
ed for the London suburb where
French Huguenot refugees set up
Bike Gift
Puts Strain
On Santa Claus
Santa Claus had better add a
few more reindeer and a trailer
to his sled to make room for the
more than one million bikes he
will be delivering to happy young
sters and adults this Christmas.
With over 30,000,000 bikes al
ready in the hands of America's
young and young in heart, this
year's crop of Christmas bikes
will bring membership in the
cycling fraternity to an all-time
high.
To illustrate Santa's delivery
problem if all the American
made bikes he will deliver were
placed bumper to bumper, they
would reach from Pittsburgh, Pa.
to Shrieveport, La. about 750
miles.
If the weight is any factor in
getting his sled off the frozen
runway at the North Pole, San
ta's cargo of sturdy middleweight
and lightweight two wheelers will
tip the scales at about 35,000,000
pounds 17,500 tons! Add to this
several tons of lights, horns,
bells, baskets, kick stands and
fox tails now set for Dec. 25th
delivery and the ttoal weight fig
ure will be astronomical.
Bikes are more popular than
ever before. Why? Partially be
cause "kids is kids" and the
bike is still the best way to light
up a youngster's eyes on Christ
mas morning. Grandparents seem
most cognizant of this fact, for
they are the largest single group
f gift-bike buyers.
Also, adults of every descrip
tion colege students, young
mothers, village patriarchs, en
tire families have switched to
bicycles as their vehicle to phys
ical fitness.
their own looms many years ago.
You see them at weddings in a
silver grey but you see them at
business in neat and shiny pat
terns. The Spitalfield, similar, is
another classic.
For the ultra-conservative man
and that includes the well-dressed
college man there are pais
ley's and foulards and ancient
madders for wear with button
down collars and natural shoulder
suits. They can come in silk or
woqI the more successful busi
nessman would run to silk.
Then there is the repp, which
refers to the faint diagonal rib
effect of the weave and Not to
the diagonal stripe in which they
are usually made. They can be
in solid colors, sometimes with
jacquard figures woven into
them. But mostly they are in
stripes inspired by the old Eng
lish regimental tie and some of
the authentic regimentals are sold
.in the United States to the horror
of the English.
A tie that is fast becoming a
classic are neat and conserva
tive cravats with tiny figures wov
en into them for what Madison
Avenue would call an "individual
ized" effect golf clubs for golf
ers, school emblems if college
memories are fresh, dividers for
an architect, a caduceus for a
doctor.
ed some very original and unusual
designs for rings, pins and neck
lsces He wears a ring which has a
gem "floating" in a casing of 14
carat cast gold. It is the oniy
ring of its kind in the world, for
the intense heat involved in cast
ing would normally crack the
gem. He alone knows the secret
of how the ring is made.
"Gems depend on light for their
beauty the more light, the more
beautiful. This is especially true
cf diamonds, as diamonds have
no color," he says.
Using this principle, he has
created an engagement ring with
a gold reflector behind the dia
mond which shines light from be
hind the gem.
"When I get engaged," a young
coed in Hopkins' shop remarked,
"I'm going to make my husband
by me that engagement ring. I'd
just love to have a ring like that."
Her enthusiasm is typidal of per
sons who enter the shop and see
Hopkins', original designs.
During W.W. II, he became in
terested in jewelry. While travel
ing with the Merchant Marines in
ihe Pacific, he picked up ma
terials and tools in each port and
devoted his spare time to jewel
ry. They would make "any souven
ir to send home" while wait
ing on the ships. Hopkins made
jewelry.
After the war, he returned to
UNC to study anthropology, then
joined the staff at Duke for two
years. In Egypt he studied the
work of the gold-and silversmiths.
In 1955 he atended the Gran
brook Academy of Art in Michi
gan. When he opened his Chapel
Hill store on Franklin Street,
he was immediately swamped with
orders from all over the country.
In 1957 he traveled to Taxco,
Mexico, to study the methods of
metalworking in the workshops of
Antonio Pinada and Antonio Cas
tillo. He works mostly with sterling
silver and 14 carat yellow gold. He
has 15,000 gems in stock now,
importing diamonds from Antwerp,
opals from Australia and Mexico,
Jade from Hong Kong, pearls from
Japan.
There are less than 100 creat
ive jewelers in the country, and
he is of the best. Today he has
one of the finest libraries on
gems and jewelry in the country.
Hopkins' business" in Chapel Hill
has expanded to such great pro
portions that he now employs
three assistants to help him with
his work.
His workshop is a mass of in
tricate tools for making his jewel
ry. He has designed all the show
cases in his store also. Every
thing in the store is created and
made by Hopkins or some of his
assistants.
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By CYNTHIA LEONARD
It takes more than a cold,
bleak day to dampen the holiday
spirit of the children of Chapel
Hill.
On this certain afternoon
Franklin Street was almost de
serted. The partially assembled
nativity scene on the lawn of the
Methodist Church looked, cold and
lifeless.
The gay Christmas decorations
in the store windows seemed
somehow tired and lacked the
festive touch. Faint strains of
Christmas carols coming from
the "Support Your Community"
both only added to the atmos
phere. The few people on the street
also mirrored the day's dejec
tion. Twenty people passed. A
boy and girl walking hand in
hand were the only two who
smiled.
The scene in a Chapel Hill
dime store was somewhat more
lively. Only a few shoppers
were in the store, but most of
them seemed mere aware of the
approaching Christmas season
than the people on the street.
Two middle-aged women were
consulting each other at the deco
rations counter.
One, apparently a school teach
er, said exasperatedly, "I was
thinking of letting them make
Christmas tree ornaments but
honestly ..."
Then she shook her head rue
fully and added, "But they have
so much glee It's just wonder
ful." Her companion was looking for
some "simple decorations."
"I don't know whether to get
this stuff or not. I know I'll be
sorry if I do. I just know I'll
be sorry" she said again and
again.
A tired clerk looked at her
watch repeatedly.
With the can of sewing ma
chine oil, the picture hangers,
notebook thread in one shopper's
cart was a package of Christmas
cards and some red and green
ribbon.
Another wore a Christmas cor
sage on her raincoat.
An elderly gentleman unloaded
a cart heaped with various yule
tide decorations at the check-out
counter. His bill was $18.50.
College girls pondered over
wrapping paper.
But the store belonged to the
children.
"Is he a balloon?" asked a
wide-eyed little boy, pointing to
a rubber reindeer.
His harried mother's only an
swer was to quickly pull him
away from the counter. She
hurried him to the front of the
store to find his smaller sister
gazing longingly at the candy
display, a miniature Santa Claus,
his pack filled with lollipops, in
her hand.
While the mother was patiently
explaining why they could not
buy any candy, just then, a loud
whistle at the back of the store
located the boy who had again
wandered away.
By the time the two reached
him, he had abandoned the
whistle to return to the reindeer
which "must be a balloon, but
why doesn't he pop?"
Good Browsin
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In Bull's Head Bookshop
At the doll counter tuo
olds were making a . valiant ef
fort to hide their fascination with
a "Chatty Cathy" doll.
The excitement and gleeful an
ticipation of the holiday season
which the children radiated lift
ed much of the gloom from tne
of shoppers anu
faces
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dliiiiiU
alike.
These young shopper--.
to increase the store's ,
however. As one short,
lad at the top counter ,
told a clerk who had ir;;
she might help him, "I ;
wait for Santa Clau to i,;
this."
By MARGARET LANRY
The Bull's Head Bookshop is
the "browsing rocm of the li
brary." UNC students go there regu
larly to ramble through area
after area of attractively-covered
books.
Manager Helen B. Hogan
sparkles with life when she
talks about her work in the
shop.
The kindly grey-haired lady
who trained at Simmons School
of Library Science in Boston
loves the people and the books
she comes into contact with.
"We are interested, first of
all, in having students read,"
she said. "We want them to
reed before buying books. Here
we provide a comfortable place
for students to sit down, and
read."
The Bull's Head Bookshop
was established in the late 1920's
by UNC Professor of English
Howard iMumford Jones, and by
1930 it was a "flourishing enter
prise." Mrs. Hogan has been its man
ager since 1958.
"The Bull's Head is a very
unusual bookshop," she said,
"because of the student' orienta
tion." Most of the inumerable books
are thus ordered with the stu
dent's needs in mind.
"The reading material is
slanted toward University sub
ject matter," Mrs. Hogan said.
"About 75 of the books are
either on the required or sug-
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gested reading list of UNC pro
fessors." Mrs. Hogan describes student
reading interest as "extra-ordin-arily
high." She attributes much
of this renewed college reading'
to the honors programs in var
ious University departments.
"You can almost spot one of
the freshman honors students,"
she said, "by the way he rushes
from class to look at books."
The professional librarian
points to the advent of "fine"
paperbacks as a boost to student
reading.
- "The paper-bound industry,"
she said, "has made more schol
arly and intellectual books avail
able for student reading."
Most of the student book sel
ections continue to be directed
toward this classroom supple
ment. "Students just don't have too
much time for pleasure reading
on the best-seller list," she explained.
A Half Hour and a Half Motion, and Vcm
Christmas Fun Begins At Hilton's
1 You can't go wrone with our array of 20 basic and diJfere, t ;
in c McGeWe Shetland sweaters from Scotland-crow ,,ks ,
V-necks 416.95; Cardigans $21.9 j
2. Everyone is wild about our special M-2 shirts made to our ,.
exacting specifications, white at $5.95. stripes at $G.;,0, unh t
Zane Gray, gray ground candy stripe and deep denim bin,- ( x: r
at $6.95
3. If you wish to say Merry Christmas with a sport coat, you'll f
a let of good looking classic herringbones at .ao. iuu , t ain:
at $63.09
4 We find a lot customers prefer a lined silk repp tie and n, i
recently added a most colorful holiday group at $4.C0.
5 Pocket secretaries that hang out of the back pocket are so ; ' r
that we have a large assortment of these starting with an nnj-..,:,.,j
pigskin one at $3.50. On the luxury end we have Madagascar ( . ,
dile the choicest of the alligator family, at $2o.00.
6. To fill the stocking in unique style, we suggest our inadriK r ;,
versible belts, madras on one side, swing the buckle around oil sl ., ,:5
ed leather on the other side $5.00.
7 Want to pamper his feet with our most popular of casu:is:-(. r
burnt ivory Cole Haan loafers at $19.93 and our J & M small p. i !
grain loafers at $17.95 really do the trick.
8 Our doeskin vests are the rage, especially .at Holiday Tim.--n,h
flannel tones with solid brass buttons really mix well with I
nogs $16.95
9 In basic mufflers we range from solid wools and tartan plaid, a!
$3 95 to 70 cashmere blends at $7.95 and pure cashmere at siu.--.-,
We can go on and on but this will give you some idea of the Christ;,,.,
fun in store for you topped by our own unique gift wrapping
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