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Buy from us! Don't need your ticket? We'll sell it; you get the money. Standard Reserved $ 11 00 Prices: Student * 5 50 Each Saturday game day MSC Main Lounge 3:00-5:45 APO Big, Bad, Bodacious er Bust VI •. ■ V ' -V. - r : -.■ K \ ' t"; ; 1 Friday, Sept. I7tl 6 p.m. until all 30 kegs are gone FREE with a TAMU I.D. and proof of age. Oaks Park Corner of Stallings & Hwy 30 Behind Culpepper Plaza Bring a friend and get ready for midnight yell practice. COUNTRY LOVIN' 98.3 FM STEREO -Hut METRO PROPERTIES Satu Suggestive Chinese dress disappearing from fashion 6 p.i ably 16 l< week W i susta side! week sed United Press International HONG KONG — The cheongsam, that simple yet sug gestive Chinese dress made famous by Suzie Wong,a charac ter in the film classic “The World of Suzie Wong,” is be coming an endangered gar ment. Suzanne Ho, a college senior, said she had worn a cheongsam for special occasions in the past, but didn’t intend to in the fu- coming, even on petite C&Eagk Asked why she choseW the I styles instead, one prole nest, woman said, “I’m too fat A ggi Less than 15 years ago, the close-fitting, shapely dress was worn by most Chinese women in Hong Kong. It made the port city a gawker’s paradise. Western sailors on leave bought thousands of the high- necked, sleeveless sheaths in the hope it would make their wives and girlfriends as sexy as the supple Chinese. In modern Hong Kong, the cheongsam’s spiritual home, the dress is now extremely difficult to obtain. It is also expensive. Young trend-setters scorn it as impractical and unbecoming. These days it must be made to order. It can cost up to $350, because all stitching is done by hand. Tailors from old Shanghai, the dress’s real home turf, are scarce. Because production is no longer lucrative, few people are willing the learn the art. Only about 20 shops remain where cheongsams can be ordered. The youngest expert dress maker is over 50. Western women periodically try the cheongsam, but few have the figures for it. The dress is straight and narrow, with two slits in the skirt that reveal a dis creet amount of thigh. “It brings out the worst in your figure from the top of your legs to your neck,” said one Western woman, who bought a cheongsam, tried it on and then left it to gather dust in her closet. ture. “It seems ridiculous when there are so few people wearing it, especially people my age,” Miss Ho said. “The world’s changing and people can’t spend so much time having those things made.” It can occasionally be seen on the streets of Hong Kong on Chinese matrons still proud of their figures. Marie Pak, a svelte accountant in her 40s, wears only the cheongsam. 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