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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1956)
Potpourri August brought the Shakes pearean festival, a nip to the night air, color to the berries on the ash tree And the pyracantha bushes and the news that the Paris fall fashion reviews showed hems as low as 10 inches from the floor. This time, we said grimly, we won't change the hemlines in our clothes. We postively and absolutely and utterly won't. Then we began to think how odd it would be to walk into a room filled with women and be the only one wearing a short dress. So the next time we saw Mil dred McCarty down at Mann's store we anxiously asked her if she thought American women would go along with this trend and wondered if it meant throw ing away clothes which couldn't be altered. "How would you like to work around the Tribune, get in and out of cars and in and out of busses with skirts almost to your ankles?" inquired Mrs. McC. "No, I don t think Amer ican women are going to be in fluenced by Paris fashions this time." Then she offered to write to a fashion buyer for information and the answer came back quickly: "There are mixed re actions among leading designers but the over all opinions are that skirt lengths won't really change for some time to come: if and when it happens, it will be a gradual change." Thus wrote Dorothy Caplan, Los Angeles buyer who keeps in touch with clothing trends around the nation and the world. "High fashion never becomes an over night fad," Miss Caplan wrote. "It starts a' trend that is carefully tried and tested in very high-priced clothes; often that trend is very slow in taking hold by the public, and it is dropped fast. "It is part of the creed of Paris couturier showings to make headlines," she added, "especially in America. This time it was skirt lengths and a definite revival of 1912 fashions It is important to point out that Dior and the others showed just a very few longer dresses; it was a fashion note far in the minority. What almost all of the couturier houses showed were lots of dresses with jackets and capes. I think capes are coming in strong this spring. Perhaps for Fall or Spring our American designers will drop hems from one to three inches, but that will have to be every thing not just dresses. "I do see slightly longer cocktail dresses and floor-length formals coming in. If anybody drops hem lines to the ankle this season (holiday) it will be in cocktail dresses only. "I feel so strongly tjiat our American women have never had such becoming and flatter ing styles that I don't want any drastic changes other than in new details, new lines, new cuts, etc., and leave skirt lengths where they are. ... Paris or no Paris, the women who attended the Presbyterian tea at the Edwin R. Durno home last Tuesday wore some very smart and interesting clothes Mrs. Durno, wore a pretty print frock with pink roses on it, and one of the women who poured, Mrs. G. T. Haupert, looked smart in a white sheath dress with a white tambourine hat. Pot pourri was intrigued with Mrs. Kenneth Cook's black and white ensemble. With her black sheath dress she wore black and white shoes one shoe had a black heel while the other was white, It was hard to believe that Mrs. Durno could manage so large a social event and then move the next day, but such was the case. The Durnos have sold the house on Valley View drive to Hauperts, and are now settling into a new home at 2512 East Main street. Parties don't seem to bother the Durnos, for Tuesday Kaye Durno and Tanya Trowbridge are giving a bridal shower for Ann Hart at the Durno's new home ... Potpourri saw another interest ing black and white dress last week. It was a beautiful cotton print worn by Mrs. Use Meyer, charming visitor from Copen hagen who was attending the Shakespearean festival plays. Mrs. Meyer said she bought the frock in Sweden. Mrs. Meyer is doing most of her traveling by bus likes that mode of travel except for the poor food served at most bus stations. Since she is a musician spread ing the news of a proposed con vention of the International So ciety for Music Education in Copehagen in 1958, we talked music and eventually mentioned Liberace. Mrs. Meyer had never heard of him. But when she mentioned the Scandinavian mus ician Victor Borge, everyone at the table said "oh yes!" in most enthusiastic tones. Those femmes interested in high fashion should read the long articles with the Paris dateline in today's section. It says the "ro mantic look" of 1912 is back with us, that capes are all the rage, furs are used to trim many garm ents and that the "Russian bal let" influence is important. Evening clothes are the most "undressed" in years, says the writer in Paris, and there's hard ly a strap left in Paris. Pink is the new color for lipstick, and women will use beauty patches again. Hair ornaments are a new fad, said an earlier dispatch, which reminded us that when we tried to buy a set in a big depart ment store in Portland, they had just one and that not very pret ty. Maybe we'll just put sequins on a couple of our big reporter's pencils. Then we could just yank one out and start takmg notes. Don Loper, whose Hollywood dress shop is partonized by many women with fat clothing budgets, takes a dim view of Paris and in a recent column referred to the "botches" which come out of the European courturier salons. Chic women all over the world, said Mr. Loper positively, "are com pletely disregarding the so-called fashion pace setters abroad" and say the Hollywood stars don't give them a second look: "I think the new French and Italian styles are dreadful," he wrote. "I don't know what they're trying to prove with those jazzed up, over junked numbers, with nothing where it's supposed to be, so that the wearer comes out looking like a freak." He ended up by saying that Irene Dunne and "racie Allen will be Hollywood fashion lead ers with their "dateless" gowns and that Tallulah will dress only for the stage and "wear her us ual blouse and slacks, low shoes and mink coat for everything else." Our end-of-the-colmun story comes from United Press. Designer Adele Simpson of New York tells this story on her self, following a tour of the South. Mrs. Simpson said that af ter a fashion show at one store, she was surrounded by women seeking clothes, advice. One of them was a sprightly lady who edged up to her and said, "My deah, I'm 82 years old but pretty clothes still fascinate me. What sort of silhouette do you think would be most becoming to me next season?" 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From the test kitchens of the purple plum packers comes this garnish suggestion. Drain a No. 2 can of purple plums and set aside. Combine 3i cup of brown sugar, i cup of white sugar, 2 tablespoons of whole cloves, 2 tablespoons of white corn syrup, 1 small stick of cinnamon and 13 cup of cider vinegar. Combine in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Remove from heat and strain out the spices. Pour the syrup back over the drained plums, and let stand several hours or overnight before serving. tell what she thought the little old lady should wear for after five. "Sugah," the little woman in terrupted, "at my age, after five all you need is a night-gown." O.S. SUMMER SALAD A sectioned orange and a diced California avocado along with a little pimientograted orange rind and lemon rind make a re freshing salad molded in lime flavored gelatin. Use the juice of a lemon for part of the liquid. Chipped beef heated in a sour cream and white sauce is most elegant with chunks of ripe olives and canned artichoke Use your favorite white table wine in the sauce. TOASTERSCOLORED Chicago (U.R) Housewives soon will make the morning toast in brightly colored toasters. One appliance manufacturer (Westinghouse) announced i t soon will market toasters in five confection colors in addition to the conventional polished chrome type. The five are lemon yellow, frosting pink, mint aqua, nougat gray and sugar white. They wiH j all be finished in porcelain I enamel. Sunday, August 19, 1338 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVtrT CELERY CURLS Break a stalk of celery into branches. Cut each branch into 3-inch lengths. Make parallel cuts forming narrow strips al most to the end. Or cut both ends of celery almost to center of each piece. Crisp in ice water and the slit ends will curl. 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