Hats hit Harrisburg
Hat fever has hit Harrisburg. Millineries, boutiques and
department stores through out the area report substantial
increases in hat sales.
No one knows how or why hat lever has spread. Ruth
Nellis, millinery manager for Pomeroy’s, explains the trend
as young people’s desire to be different. She says, Young
women want to wear hats because they never saw their
mothers wearing hats ”
Managers Ann Cerino of Foxmoor’s, and Jerry
Schnarrs of Fashion Bug, attribute hat fever to the new
total look. They report that accessories in general are
coming back. , .
Terry Sterner, manager of Eddie’s Men s Shop ot
downtown Harrisbura. believes discos have encouraged
hat fever. Eddie Ruth, owner and buyer for Eddie’s Men’s
Shops, believes shorter hair has brought the hat back for
men
Ruth also sees a trend among young men toward the
inexpensive straw hats which are popular among women as
well. But a salesman at Ratcliffe and Swarts says that
expense doesn’t seem to be a major concern for their
young customers. He reports, "One teen-age guy picked
a hat that cost $5. and began peeling off the money. He
came back in the following week and bought the same hat
in a different color.”
Most Harrisburg retailers agree, however, that the
inexpensive straw hat is the most popular. Also known as
a panama hat, milan hat, Chinese straw hat and seagrass
hat, the popular straw hat varies in cost from s3'to $25
Popular colors are basically neutral, with an added scarf or
flow for espirit. Large city retailers have begun to
successfully market colorful hats, but Harrisburg retailers
are having difficulty in selling color. "People around the
Harrisburg area like the basic off-whites, grays, browns
and blacks. Maybe next year we’ll have a demand for more
colors," says Schnarrs of Fashion Bug.
Hat fever has also brought its own terminology.
Formerly known as a pillbox hat, this hat is now known as a
disco hat. The visored cloth caps are now known as cool
caps, newsboy caps, baseball caps and kangol caps.
Gone, \oo, are the days when a man could ask to see a
fedora without further ado. Today he will be asked if he
wants to see it in felt, wool, nylon, straw, suede or fur. He
will also be asked what sized brim he desires-panama, old
man, godfather, pimp or beach size.
Brims are no longer worn turned up in the back and
down in the front, according to one boutique salesman.
Brims are down all around. Hat wearers of today also tilt
their hats close to the eyebrows rather than high and back
on the head as their ancestors did.
Here to stay, however, is the traditional western hat,
which is starting to return after several bad years. Another
return is the veil on women’s hats, an item that was DODular
in the early twentieth century. Nealis of Pomeroy’s also
foresees a trend toward the better hats. She also says that
women who have stored their hats of the 1940’s can bring
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them out of the closet today. Men, however, may have to
wait a few more years before they can take their Homburgs
or derbies out of the closet. . . . ..
Retailers agree that while hats continue to be fantastic
business, it could be followed by another hatless trend. No
one knows how long hat fever will last. Perhaps the biggest
fear is another year like 1951. It was the year of an all-time
low for hat sales prompted by the second great war and
automobiles. As automobiles became popular, hats began
to get smaller. Large hats, popular for many centuries
began to become a nuisance because they could be easily
displaced when climbing in and out of automobiles. As
women began to acquire a new taste for wearing almost
nothing on their heads, along with the casual dressing
mores of the era, hatlessness became in vogue
If hat fever is here to stay, a new generation will have to
relearn or modify the rules of hat etiquette. On what
occasion should a man or woman wear a nau Mmy>
Vanderbilt may publish a future best seller entitled, How
to wear a Hat,” and grandmothers will flash all-knowing
smiles of ”l told you so.
Programs
The campus police are of
fering programs to educate the
college community on crime
prevention techniques.
To help fight crime on cam
pus, a crime watch program has
been established. The progr
ams’ purpose is to teach people
how to spot a potential crime
and alert the campus poUce.
For instance, residents in
Meade Heights would be taught
how to watch for suspicious
cars in their neighborhood.
Members of the campus com
munity can obtain advice oh
crime prevention by contacting
the campus police.
Operation Identification is
another method for making
property more burglar resist
ant.SPhis service makes use of
an engraver with which indiv
iduals engrave numbers on val
uables which can be traced by
law enforcement agencies. Both
this service and the crime wat
ch 'program are the result of
past burglaries on campus.
Crime
by Jeff Drinnan
A Rape Crisis program will
be offered this fall. The pro
gram will include discussions of
now to file a rape complaint,
trauma resulting from rape and
the legal aspects of rape.
According to Charles Alesky,
supervisor of campus police, a
small number of students at
tended this program last year.
“This was somewhat of a disap
pointment,” said Alesky, but he
conceded that the small turn
out may have been due to a lack
of publicity or to the inconve
nient time it was scheduled.
The Rape Crisis program was
prompted by the concern of
women students.
The campus police plan to
have a guest speaker lecture on
drug abuse sometime in May.
Alesky said that although
drugs are currently not a prob
lem on campus, it’s a “growing
problem through out the coun
try.”
Continuing ed.
A time management Semi
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E resented on Friday, April 20,
•om 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in
the Multi-Purpose Building at
Penn State, Capitol Campus.
Instructor for this seminar
will be Joseph J. Nigro, assist
ant professor of Managing
Development at Capitol Cam
pus, and permanent planning
consultant for the Pennsylvania
Manufacturers Association.
The fee of $5O includes the
cost of instruction, course mat
erials, luncheon, and coffee
breaks.
The Penn State, Capitol
Campus Athletic Department
will conduct two spring tennis
clinics in May and June.
A beginners clinic will meet
for nine sessions on Monday
and Wednesday evenings be
ginning Monday, May 7. An
uitermidiate and advanced ten
nis clinic will meet for nine
sessions on Tuesday and Thur
sday evenings beginning May 8.
Participants should bring their
own equipment.
The fee for each clinic is
$39. Deadline for registration
and payment of the fee is
Tuesday, May 1.
A one-day workshop enti
tled “Surveying with the Mod
ern Metric System” will be
conducted on Friday, May 11, in
the Multi-Purpose Building.
A fee of $65. will include all
workshop materials, coffee
breaks, luncheon and the text
book. Deadline for registration
and payment of the fee is
Friday, May 4.
This workshop is designed
for practicing civil engineers
and surveyors. It reviews plane
and route surveying while int
roducing new material on the
use of the modern metric (SI)
system as used in surveying.
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Campus, Middletown, PA,
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