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United Press International
NEW YORK — America’s top
fashion designers began showing
their fall-winter ready-to-wear
collections this week and for the
average woman, whose budget
probably is pretty strapped, the
outlook isn’t good.
Undaunted by last week’s re
port by the World Bank that the
United States is no longer among
the top five wealthiest nations in
the world. Seventh Avenue’s
finest designers have managed to
chum out a fantastic array of $400
blazers, $150 ruffled silk blouses,
bloomers and skirts that go for
three-digits plus and evening
wear that often runs in the four
digit bracket.
And to make matters worse.
Women’s Wear Daily says the
“preppy look” — the mainstay of
every
closet
conservative spender’s
- is on the way out.
None of this, however, ruffles
the fashionable feathers of France-
Michell Adler, a charming native
of France who can shop The GAP
(“Levis for Guys & Gals”) and
come out looking as smart as Hen
ri Bendel’s and better than
Bloomingdale’s or Saks Fifth
Avenue.
Adler, who is a fashion col
umnist for the New York Post, has
written a book entitled “Sport-
sfashion. ” The book is filled with
photos and sketches showing
women how to wear a $9 pastel-
colored sweatshirt with pleated
skirt and jewelry for the office, or a
tank top and tuxedo pants for an
evening on the town.
“I haven’t bought a blouse or
sweater in two years,” Adler said
during an interview. “Those hand-
knit sweaters that are so popular
now run $200 and as for a silk
blouse, four trips to the cleaners
and you have a sweatshirt.”
The pale yellow sweatshirt
Adler wore matched with a
leopard-spotted silk scarf, tur
quoise culottes, pastel-colored
nylons and low heeled, suede
pumps looked nothing like the
kind of faded mess one sees in col
lege gymnasiums.
It was a neat fit and only upon
close inspection could one see it
wasn’t a sweater. “You can wash it
and the synthetic-cotton sweat
shirts don’t fade; you can share
part of your wardrobe with your
husband, and they come in dozens
of colors,” she said.
Her book is full of cost-cutting
hints: “A Ralph Lauren tweed
jacket costs over $300, but you can
buy a hacking jacket for $100 and
up at your local riding-equipment
store. If that’s still too much, con
sider an Olympic coat which starts
at $50. Worn by Olympic riders,
this dashing coat comes in red,
black, bright blue, and green.”
And if you think these looks are
fine — but only for the very young
— Adler herself, 39, belies such
reasoning.
As Adler says: “Sports fashion is
fun, colorful, and inexpensive.
American born and bred, it repre
sents the American spirit and
competitive mentality and epito
mizes the American love of com
fort and casualness.”
Cattle supply down,
beef costs may rise
On the edge
Staff photo by Brian Tate
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just whit
Drew Woods Construction workers put the
finishing touches on the roof trim to the new
modular dormitory. The building, one of
two new dormitories being completed on
campus, is located next to Fowler Hall. It
will house female students this fall.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The num
ber of cattle newly placed in feed-
lots and marketed after being fat
tened all hit their lowest April 1
levels since 1975.
The Agriculture Department
said Monday that 9.76 million
head were in feedlots in 23 states
on April 1. That is down 4 percent
from a year earlier and 12 percent
from two years ago.
Experts said the eventual result
will be higher cattle and beef
prices than the recent bargain
prices caused by record supplies
of meat.
Cattle placed in feedlots from
January to March totaled 5.15 mil
lion, down 1 percent from a year
earlier and 12 percent from two
years earlier.
Marketings in the first quarter
totaled 6 million head, down 2
percent from a year earlier and 11
percent from two years earlier.
Producers expect to sell 5.54
million fattened cattle during the
spring quarter, 2 percent fewer
than the same period a year ago.
That estimate would represent a
decline of 10 percent from two
years ago.
The figures were based on an
April 1 survey in 23 states, an ex
panded survey done four times a
year. Monthly surveys count cat
tle on feed in just seven states.
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Violent weather hits U.S.
United Press International
Intense thunderstorms reached
across the Southeast into the
“ ’lains states, spawning a series pf
lomadoes; killing one person and
s * oreS ’ • [injuring three others.
’ e J?“j Three people were struck by
mal Orpj jjghtnjng described by onlookers
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use, sl !j|lnmderstorm in Cypress, Calif.,
he drug i‘/M 0 nd a y, but no other damage was
social W» e p 0r t e( i;
oe of tne'P J 0 h n Claridge, 56, was hit in his
tal.dmg. J e f( gibow by a lightning bolt that
sed through his body and went
lut his other elbow during the
alifornia storm. He was listed in
table condition with burns over
his upper body.
Another jolt hit Andy Arteaga,
), knocking him about six feet,
e was hospitalized in stable con-
lition with a head injury. A quar-
:erofamile away, Donna Runyon,
1, was leaning against a metal
wle that was hit by a bolt. She
Suffered numbness in her arm and
r as not hospitalized.
Fierce winds gusting at 40 mph
mooted a tree in Atlanta, killing
ime person in a pickup truck.
„„ . | Three tornadoes twisted into
3 rnaliagl® Columbia, S.C., but no damages
were reported,
rugedu® The tornadoes came on the
otil the)’ J dieels of a twister that devastated
imerciali: Tulsa, Okla., during the weekend,
t do thal ! That “surprise tornado” killed
jaraphefl 11 live people, injured 51 others and
a l mess$ 'demolished buildings for 18 miles.
iMike Pass, at the National Weath-
i people^ er Service in Tulsa said he knew of
ncernfc, nothing more than small hail in
ing an ^ area Easter night until he saw
the tornado on radar.
"hesaid! A few residents of a small rural
( bout mP .^trailer park near Bixby, who were
c onstitud lucky enough to escape the funnel
jtherni^Fcloud, dug through the rubble
Monday to gather their remaining
sparse possessions.
Families of the five dead sear-
iched the shredded debris for
jkeepsakes. One man wept as he
retrieved family possessions.
Another gazed at a small crowd of
Lnr reporters and police and said, “I
* * wishall these people would just go
home.”
j: Thunderstorms in southwest
ern Texas brought heavy rain and
[e hail. Two tornadoes were re
ported near San Angelo, Texas
and large hail fell near Water Val
ley, ’jTexas.
More than 2 inches of rain dren
ched Fredericksburg, Texas with
in an hour and the Pedernales Riv
er inched up to a near-flood stage.
A tornado produced by a severe
thunderstorm damaged a farm
building in Wheatland, Wyo., and
caused a power outage in the east
ern Wyoming town Monday.
Cold winds whisked through
upper Michigan into New Eng
land, dropping temperatures into
the 20s.
A frost-freeze warning was
issued in Virginia and the National
Weather Service said an Arctic
high-pressure system over the
state would bring unseasonably
cold temperatures.
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