--The Daily CoUegian Thursday, December 4,1975 Secondhand cf&th|su 1 ' ( ; f t ! ■ -** and prices Local stores o ByCATHY CIPOLLA Collegian Features Editor When the price of clothing rises so high that a shirt costs ' $25, taking the shirt off someone else’s back doesn’t * seem like such a bad idea after all. It’s happening. Not only in , Slate College,; but all over. 1 Secondhand- Clothing stores, which ’ were formerly 1 disdained by anyone making over $5,000 a year, are drawing more and i more customers even the well to-do. .i Barbara Streisand, a famous “Secondhand Rose,” used to haunt these stores in her fledgling. actress days. Woodring's 145 S. Allen RUBBER PLANTS $6.00 ’ier yesterday's styles But after she Became more well-known she complained that the stores upped their prices when they Saw her coming. \ But lor most of us, second hand stores are a bargain. At the New World Headquarters on South Pugh Street, you can buy genuine Pendleton or Woolrich shirts for $5.00 or a pure silk scarf for 75 cents. . in the store is “recycled” even the bags, which joften bear the name of familiar stores around State College. . Many of the styles at the store date back to the 1940’5. •There jare ladies’ blazers with crepe linings, padded shoulders, and covered buttons forslo-$l5. Avelvet coat with a rabbit collar costs $5O. Tuxedoes with full tails are now on sale for $9.00, reduced from $l2. And they even sell the top hats that go with them. "We’re selling the clothing at about the same price itsold for then," said Gary Fifluns, owner- of New World, “and this is probably one-quarter of what it would sell for now.” Filkins said the old clothes are also made much better than clothes today. Some of the items, such as the antique quilts, were gotten from auctions, Filkins said, i Others come from wholesalers jthroughout the northeast part of the country. “Everything is authentic,” he said, “and some of these things are niade from material you don’t even see anymore.” , And the clothes' DO look authentic. There are genuine Hawaain shirts,', resplendent with palm trees and bunches of flowers, for $B.OO-$l2. “They're selling for $25 in California,” Filkins said. New World alsoi sells men’s Vietnamese shirts, em broidered with dragons, and. the old “reindeer sweaters” ; from the 1930’5. | ; But They sell up-to-date c* threads, too, mainly in the form of jeans. Jean jackets sell for $5.00j-sjB.oo, and recycled dungarees are $5.00. Although the ! store’s clientele is composed mainly of students, older people often come in for workclothes and antique quilts. And according . to Filkins, many come in just ' to see his singing dog, GesU. He played a record “Baba O’Reilly” the Who and Gesu howled along with it. . ■ On the other side of town, on ' East Beaver Avenue, is another secondhand store the Second Time Around. ■ Besides offering bargains on used clothing —flannel shifts for $l.OO and $2.50; corderoy jackets for $4.00 Second Time Around also has used furniture and antiques. i There’s a pot-belly stoye there for $4O, a box of dishes for $lO, mirrors, silverwear, MR. SUIT I WELCOMES { BACK PSU STUDENTS WITH GREAT GIFT IDEAS: Sweaters from $6:75 Printed Knit Sljirts from $12.25 Pre-Washed Jeans Froryi $13.75 Vested Suits from $59.50 Leisure Suits from $39.50 Sport Coats from $39.50 Pile lined Look' of - I f Leather Jackets ' $2775 (40.00 value) Stadiuhri Coats Special Price $23.75 (40.00 value) MR. SUIT 1686 N. Atherton (next to State Store) Open ti1.9:00 daily ! |,l chairs, , tabled, picture frames, and eVen a broadaxe. According to Kay Bauerle, co owner of the storje 1 75 per cent of these items I come from auctions. I j ' Other- item,! are sold on consignment the 'owner brings in something he wants to sell, and keep| a percentage of (lie money after it is sold. Bauerle'said many students leaving their apartments | bring. their furniture there. But the clothes4iave a more interesting history. Many were rescued from a “rag company” in; the midwest, where they probably would have ended up as somebody’s dust cloth. “We buy bales of used jeans,” j Bauerle said. “The torn ones get fixed, and then they’re sold.” However, she added, many students specifically ask for torn jeans. Many of the store’s 1940’s clothes come from auctions, Bauerle said. “They’re often from the estates of people who’ve died,’’ she added. "Their families usually don’t know what to do with the clothes.’’ ’And, some of the clothes are brand-new with store tags intact. While New World Headquarters i and Second Time Around J specialize in used items, theffecord Ranch on East Collegb; Avenue also sells them. Behind the racks of records are j-ows and rows Town By LAURA SHEMICK (pollegian Staff Writer Although most students don’t know it, State College is a very quiet town during term break. In fact, most students probably don’t even think this town exists when school is not in session. This belief is not too far from the truth. l Impressions The streets of State College are nearly deserted during all term; breaks, not just between fall and winter. The parking areas have pnlv a sprinkling of cars, and you! cfih count the number of motor cycles in town dn one hand. The traffic is so light that you can jcross against the light on College Avenue at two id the afternoon. There are no lines in front of the' mlovie theatres, no crowds in the New World Headquarters on S. Pugh offers jeans that are 'broken in.' of corderoy jackets for $3.50. “■‘We have a couple of thousand of them,” said Record Ranch employe Jim Bender, “and we even had a few smoking jackets with silk lapels.” Like the other two stores, the Record Ranch gets its merchandise from wholesale fallis asleep over break drugstores. Little signs saying “No check cashing until next term” spring up in Murphy’s. The record stores are,lightly populated with local youngsters. On campus, the changes are even more drastic. The roadsisee about ten cars per hour. Occasionally you happen upon a few workmen digging holes in a lawn, but | not often. There are few pedestrians on the Raths and even the squirrels disappear. Pattee is still inhabitecfthiring break, but sparse ly. Towards the beginning of the new term it comes back to full life, opening earlier and closing later than it does on break. Wandering around campus on break evokes some strange feelings. It’s eerie to be able to sit down and be completely alone in a place where thousands of students usually mill around. It’s even more strange to be locked out of a familiar building where you remember leaving your logic book a week ago. distributors and rag com panies. Others are surpluses from the armed services and military academies. U.S. Navy pullovers, made from 100 per cent woof, sell for $2.99, and Valley Forge Military ' Academy jackets sell for $5.00. They also have army and marine jackets. salons Bender said jackets are the at 902 South Allen Street. It's biggest seller at the ranch, operated by the State College and that business has been Women's Club and sells increasing since they started clothes and household items selling clothes two years ago. all donated to the shop. “With the recession, people According to club trustee have a lot less money’to spend Irene McDowell, the shop is on clothes,” he said. open Tuesdays for con- If you feel like walking a tributions and on Thursdays little bit, visit The Thrift Shop for sales. Penn State looked and felt like a ghost town on break, an illusion magnified by the chilly winds which swept through this area around Thanksgiving. . The ice rink was not quite as deserted. But the skaters were shorter as more kids frequented the rink. It’s not just the students that leave. State College has a pupluation of about 30,000, and over 8,000 of these townspeople either teach or work at the university. Many of these University people take off on vacation for the term break. Combined with the many thousands of students who go home, this doesn’t leave very many people in Happy Valley. If you like solitude, try staying here for term break. But remember to have on hand plenty of records and books and whatever else you like to do or it could get boring after a while. Seminars planned for museum aides The first in a series of five programs to train docents for Penn State’s Musuem of Art will be held 10:30 a.m. Dec. 11 at the Museum. Docents serve as guides and information sources during public tours of the Museum and its current, exhibitions every Thursday at 1:30 p.m. and during specially arranged group tours. The topic of the first sessions will be an introduction to docent education. .Additional subjects will be docent com munication techniques, Jan. 8; assimilating art history content for docents, Jan. 22; guiding young viewers in the art museum, Feb. 4; and the docent portfolio of resources, March 4. All sessions will run from 10:30 a.m. to noon, arid are free. Those planning to attend the seminar should register with Robert Ott at 273 Chambers or by phone at 885-6570. THE MEAL TOO GOOD TO PUT IN A BAG. Tired of having your mdals thrown at you in a paper bag, from those fastfood chains? Sit down and relax, in the cozy, warm atmosphere of The Pancake Cot tage. Your meal is made the old fash ioned way, cooked to your liking. Break fasts are prepared from the freshest country eggs and the best-tasting batters, made from our own recipes. And don’t let our name fool you. Try one of the Cottage’s juicy steaks, crisp salads, ifishnDT ham platters. All are pre pared specially for you. So stop in, and have an old-fashioned, relaxed meal. PANCAKE COTTAGE 119 S. PUGH ST. 7 am to 7 pm 8 am to 3 pm Mon - Fri Sat & Sun ,
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