Thursday, April 25.1974 KINGSMOLNTAIN MIRROR PageSD
Bruce Valentine, Scott
Wyte, Gina Patterson, David
Lynn. Rose Martin, Connie
Welch, Larry Hord, Tammy
Ross, Steve Laughter, Anita
Lovelace. Linda Huskey,
Carol Bartcher, Anthony
Byers, Judy Biddix, David
Terry and Janice Anne Ronk.
Photo by Tom McIntyre
Elizabeth Gabor, Fashion Designer For Duplex International
With An Eye
On Future Trends
One hundred-thirty six
students have been named to
the Central Junior High Honor
Roll for the past semester.
Lawyer Lewis, Cathy
Barrett, Bruce Canipe, Steve
Long, Elizabeth McGill,
Barbara Patrick, Roxanne
Tate, Kim Bridges, Diane
Champion, Marcella Smith,
Elizabeth Sneed, Chris
Hammack, Ricky Adams,
Chuck Worcester, Paul
Davison.
Barry Lineberger, Tim
Patterson, Jon Poston, Oscar
Davis, Gary McClain, Floyd
Smith, Linda Moon, Angda
Reid, Lorraine Bailey,
Sherman Jenkins, James,
Kale, Lisa Bridges, Sharon
Buchanan, Loretta Huskey,
Kathy Jackson.
Regina Patterson, Scott
Batchler, Ken Boheler, Dale
Caveny, Darrell Chriscoe, Jeff
Dixon, David Hambright,
Rick Hinnant, Billy Hughes,
Jerry Jackson, Mark Kidd,
Kelly Land, Trip McGill, John
David Reed, Jeff Robinson.
Mark Sanders, Robert
Swofford, Terry Yarborou^,
Stan Alexander, Charles
Bumgardner, Herbie Beam,
Erik Hagen, Chip Harmon,
Jeff Prescott, David Robin
son, Stan Scruggs, Chuck
Walker, Tricia Blalock, Lynn
Etters, Cheryl Leach.
David Liverette, Billy
McCarter, Quint McCoy,
Jimmy Van Dyke, Curtis
Wood, Stan Taylor, Rhonda
Bingham. Adrienne Davis,
Karen Edwards, Debbie
Frazier, Frieda Gillespie.
Pam Leech, Sara Mauney,
Beth White, Gail Yarboro.
James Monty Rhea. James
Pritchard Fulton, Cynthia
Louise Gilliam, Lindsay Ann
Holmes. Nancy Chalmes Lee,
Carla Elizabeth Mauney,
Robin Yvette McClain. Terrie
Lynn Smith, Lisa Ann
Sutherland. Cindy Kay Wells,
Prunella Young, John Robert
Cobb, Jody Elvin Deaton,
Todd Dickson Gatts, Ricky
Wayne Heffron.
Wayne Allen Putnam,
Kenneth Vance, Robin Green,
Roxanne Seism, Ricky Smart,
Buck Burton, Kenny Clary,
Tina Acutt, Randy Hayes,
Dianne Costner, Dianne
Smith, Ricky Peterson, Lisa
Baity, Gina McCurry, Kim
Watson.
KIM LACKEY
FOUR YEARS OLD - Kim
Lackey, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Dwight Lackey, Rt. I,
Shelby, will celebrate her
fourth birthday Sat., Apr. 27.
Grandparents are ,Mr. and
•Mrs. High Lackey, Rt. 1,
Shelby and Mr. and .Mrs. Bill
Powell of Cherryvllle.
By TO.M McIntyre
Editor. Die Mirror
Duplex International of Kings Mountain,
manufacturers of fabric used in wymen’s
dresses and sportswear, puts a great deal of
faith in a woman named Elizabeth Gabor.
And the faith must be justified because Mrs.
Gabor has been with Duplex, a division of
Reeves Brothers, for the past six years.
What exactly does the Hungarian from Great
, .yeck, N.Y. do for her employer?
She is a consultant stylist.
‘“Diat’soneof thetitlesi answer to,” she told
The Mirror this week. Relaxing in a vacant
office at the Kings Mountain plant Mrs. Gabor
said one of the jobs she does for Duplex “is the
design-of color trends for the fabrics the
company manfactures.”
Bin the job is more. She spends two or three
days each week at the Kings Mountain
operation through six months of the year and
makes trips to Europe about twice each year.
In her tours abroad she determines the coming
trends in colors, fabrics and fabric weight to be
utilized in the newest styles in women's
fashions. Her reports are turned in and based
on her judgement and the corporate facilities
her company gears its fabric output to fit these
• trends.
“I just returned from Europe,” she said. “I
made the fashion shows in Italy, Spain,
Switzerland and Paris and it looks as if the
ladies will be wearing more fashions than ever
before made of knit fabrics.
“At the same time I don’t believe American
women are going to really adopt the newest
designs,” she continued, “because the dresses
are going longer for the coming season. There
is a very good reason for this in Europe
because there they were hurt more by the fuel
crisis than here. The longer fashions there will
also serve to keep the women warm.”
She said the fashions really look great, but
she can’t see American women wearing such
long fashions for everyday living in America.
In her trips to Europe Mrs. Gabor also visits
firms that manufacture machines for fabric
manufacturing to see if there is something new
Duplex might be able to utilize in America.
Looking at the fashions in America today
one wanders if the European designs still have
as great an influence on the fashions here.
According to Mrs. Gabor “There is still a great
deal of influence.
“But at the same time the American
fashions, in some cases, have just as great an
effect on the European designs,” she con
tinued. “Take, for instance, the current craze
for jeans. A pair of jeans in Europe usually
costs as much as $50.”
She said the jeans are manufactured in
Europe, buL she recalled, “I saw a load arrive
at one shop in Paris and the jeans were wet.
Washed before being sold. The manufacturers
also pour in bleach to make them fade. They
want them to have that already been worn
look. That’s what the Euriyiean buying public
wants.”
She said she has found “even though we are
told the Europeans look down on America
these days, it is also true they have great
respect for us when they look at the way we
manage. Almost everywhere in Europe their
ways of life are in a state of collapse.”
Elizabeth Gabor was bom in Hungary (and
no, she is no relation to Zsa Zsa and Eva.
Gabor, in Hungary, is as common a name as
Smith or Jones here). Her family was in
fashion and fabric designing, in a small way,
and she naturally went into the business.
“I studied in Hungary, Switzerland and
Paris,” she said. “But I never really thought I
would use my training to any great degree. I
didn’t like it that much back then. When I got
married I just knew I would never get involved
again.”
But 15 years ago shedid. She worked through
a succession of fabric manufacturers as a
designer until she came to Duplex.
“This is the longest I every stayed at any one
place,” she said. “They seem happy with me
and I am very happy with them. I find the
people with Digilex to be marvelous, wonderful
people. Like a close knit family, really.”
Mrs. Gabor is about to leave for Europe
again for Duplex and this time readers of The
Mirror will benefit also from her trip.
In the coming weeks The Mirror will publish
articles by Mrs. Gabor written espedaliy for
Kings Mountians. The articles will cover the
fashion world and she will be “our women in
New York, Paris, Spain, Italy or whereever”
there is fashion news. Through Mrs. Gabor’s
eyes Mirror readers will preview the coming
styles and get a first hand report of what they
can expect to be wearing in style, fabric and
color in the coming months.
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