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Campus fun from ‘fleeting fads’
United Press International
A few things on the current
American scene are really
worthy of a chuckle. They in
clude the campus toga, the Con
necticut moodle and the Kansas
lig leaf.
The toga’s academic. But
moodle and fig leaf are creations
of homemakers who put their
noodles together.
First, consider togas. These
are not the regulation type don
ned by ancient Romans.
Togas worn by the campus set
are improvised from sheets,
blankets, bedspreads, draperies.
Wrapped, stapled or pinned
about the body hairy or beauti-
ftil, togas are proper for special
beer, vodka, bratwurst, jello,
hamburger, grape, potato salad,
cucumber, and any thing-the-
stomach-can-bear feasts. The
Bacchanalia goes on to the beat
of megaton stereo or live rock.
Keeping one shoulder bare,
the mark of one properly togaed,
calls for bravery in cold weather.
Some toga freaks wear thermal
underwear.
Toga parties first were pro
moted as publicity for a movie,
the National Lampoon’s “Animal
House. Campus reports show
them moving on their own
momentum now.
The movie re-creates toga
antics taking place on campuses
n the early sixties.
Toga party rules: anything that
comes to mind. At the University
if Connecticut in Storrs, a rule
illowedjust one pin per toga.
The brave way to toga oneself
i over the body bare. Cowards
ear bikinis underneath.
"But togas do not an orgy
make,” says Dr. George Ho
mans, professor of sociology at
larvard.
The other two movements
ith smiles built in are not yet
ompletely off the drawing board
reaching all parts of the na-
ioii. But the Connecticut
ioodle and the Kansas fig leaf
ave fad status potential.
The fig leaf is made of stretch
brie but has no means of mak-
g it stay on — clothes or no
lothes. It’s meant to be fun.
people add the laughs and
imagination, says Barb Fried
man, of Shawnee Mission, Kan.
She is one of five in “eight &
company” — formed to push the
fig leaf.
“With only five of us in on it
you may wonder why we call it
the “eight & company,” Fried
man said. "We added the three
for Uncle Sam — who will take at
least as much as three of us from
the endeavor.
The women range in age from
30 to 55 and have, among them,
nine kids, four husbands, a half
dozen college degrees, and busi
ness experience, including buy
ing for big stores.
The Kansas fig leaf — “one
size fits all — comes in a can and
includes a figology pamphlet tel
ling how to form a figleaf lovers
club and listing things fig leaf
wearers never need to worry ab
out.
Fig leaf wearers never have to
worry about enough closet space,
packing a suitcase, or getting
trapped in airport metal detec
tors.
The moodle came into being
over coffee in the kitchens of two
Weston, Conn., mothers of six
children aged 10 to 23.
Bunny Singer and Peg Hol
comb said the moodle is 18
months old and already is going
to be used by one of the largest
makers of juvenile footwear.
“Doodle your mood” is the cry
of the moodle movement.
Singer said a moodle is a
whimsical, pear-shaped charac
ter with three characteristics:
moplike hair, high tennis shoes
and a curly navel. Its face is
blank and that’s where one doo
dles one’s mood.
The moodle character on shoes
and boots will give kids a chance
to doodle on them.
Singer, a graduate of Skid
more, and Holcomb, who went
to Sarah Lawrence, said the
moodle character is fun, but it
also fosters creativity and self-
expression.
“It’s a little more serious than
the pet rock,” Holcomb said.
They h ave prototypes of
moodle notepaper, T-shirts,
THE BATTALION Page 9
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1978
Big names on jeans
mean bigger prices
United Press International
NEW YORK — The world of designer clothing has turned its
talents to jeans.
No matter that most of the designers who are stitching their names
into our denimed rumps are Americans. The fashion influence is
European and the prices in the import class — in some cases up to
$150.
The lines at Bloomingdale’s in Manhattan aren’t for the newest
three-piece suit or the latest one-piece swimsuit. They’re queueing
up for jeans from Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, and company.
“We’ve sold six shipments in three weeks,” said a salesman at the
Polo Boutique. “We can’t get them on the shelves fast enough.”
A regular pair of denim jeans made by one of the top companies —
Levis, Lee, Sedgefield, Wrangler, etc., — goes for about $12 to $20.
Add the magic names of Geoffrey Beene or Anne Klein and the
same item is magically increased to $36. Ralph Lauren’s straight
legged Western jeans go for $46.
“I always wear them when I travel, even with a shirt and tie,’ says
Oscar de la Renta, another entrant in the denim derby, with a $32
candidate. “They’re comfortable to sit in on planes, especially on long
trips.”
But Calvin Klein is probably offering the most comfort. Wearing
his $150 leather jeans you certainly won’t be encumbered with a
bulging wallet in your back pocket.
memo boards, magic slates, bags
and — a furry three-foot high
moodle that makes everyone
who sees or touches it marvel
and smile.
The biggest toga party so far
was at the University of Wiscon
sin in Madison.
“We expected 10,000 or so,”
said Mort Aaronson, co-chairman
of the event held from 5:30 p.m.
to 1 a.m. outdoors.
“But 13,200 came.
A leafy wreath for the
cranium, part of the toga cos
tume, has led to ivy on college
walls being ripped off.
But toppings also include
rotating lights — police car and
ambulance type — antlers trim
med with Christmas lights, and
even “hard hats’ — subbing for
Roman warrior helmets.
Stuffing oneself with either
grapes or jello or extremely odd
combinations of food is the vital
epicurean part of a good toga
party, says Bodie Higgs of Higgs,
McMarrian Smyth in Los
Angeles — maker of a toga party
kit scheduled for nationwide dis
tribution.
“Using the hands instead of a
spoon or anything of the sort is a
part of the stuffing. Jello and
mashed potato eating contests
are favorites.”
“Our kit includes plastic-
gloves — to keep hands from get
ting gooey. At the University of
Colorado, Boulder, the eating
contest was out of yesterdecades
— goldfish swallowing.
Contents of 500 costume kits
togated fun-seekers at a recent
Friday night at the University of
California in Los Angeles. The
kit contains two-thirds of a twin
sheet or some other fabric- that
size, gold rope, and a wreath of
plastic leaves.
If Caesar’s ghost could haunt a
toga bash, he would be shocked
to see plaid, polka dotted,
abstract print, striped togas —
and outrageous ones fashioned of
beach towels with slogans. The
most unusual — a chiffon toga, a
wax paper toga — first made the
toga scene at Yale.
Parties take place under the
stars any place. At the University
of West Virginia, Morgantown,
several thousand in togas partied
under a circus tent.
At Washington University in
St. Louis, thousands did their
Roman thing in a field house.
Ohio State in Columbus pegged
its toga happening to a parade.
At Penn State University in
State College, Pa., a toga fest
featured a lot of beer and danc
ing. There is pot but not much
pot at toga parties, according to
observers.
At some colleges toga fests are
staged at sites used by students
of a decade ago for anti-war dem
onstrations^
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INNEAPOLIS — All right,
rican history trivia buffs:
Who took away America’s legal
eandgave us prohibition in the
Andrew Volstead. Right.
Who made it possible for
Maid raisins. Ocean Spray
iberries, Land O Lakes milk
butter, Sunkist oranges for juice
rink the morning after?
Unh? Andrew Volstead,
elly up to a bar and chances are
remember Prohibition,
few will remember that Andrew
lead, a congressman from Min-
ata from 1902 until 1922,
red the Volstead Act of 1919
shut off the legal liquor taps
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bances are that virtually no one
remember the Capper-Volstead
f of 1922 which is known among
eulturalists as the “Magna
a of the American cooperative
ement. Under the act, farmers
able to organize to sell their
luce without being in violation
rtitrust laws.
Prohibition gave the nation Al
one, the flapper, the speakeasy
bobbed hair, the Capper-
tead Act gave farmers control of
rproducts from seed to store,
it weren t for co-ops, said
Carol James, managing editor of the
Midland Cooperator, “you would
have a middleman (between the
farmer and grocer) and there would
be more cost to the consumer.”
In recognition of Volstead’s work
on behalf of the American coopera
tive movement, the Minnesota As
sociation of Cooperatives has spent
$40,000 to purchase his home in
Granite Falls. A federal grant of
$15,000 was given to restore the
rambling, 14-room clapboard house
which has been placed on the Na
tional Register of Historical Places.
On June 29, 1979, the house will be
dedicated as a Historic Site and a
museum.
Volstead, son of a Norwegian im
migrant, was elected to Congress in
1902. He died in Granite Falls in
1947 at age 87. He was brought up
on a farm and before he went to
Congress, he served as Granite
Falls mayor, member of the board of
education and county attorney. In
1894, he married Nellie Gilruth
who died in 1918.
Volstead was a shy man. His one
vice, according to Charlotte Whit
ney, 83, a retired social worker and
school librarian, was chewing to
bacco which stained his mustache.
Volstead, she said, “knew Prohib
ition didn’t succeed and that it was a
lost cause. He knew about bathtub
gin and rum-running.
“I think,” said Arbie Agre of the
Tri-County Co-Op Oil Co.,“he done
more for farmers than (the late Sen.
Hubert) Humphrey or anybody.”
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