In Route 309/415 Plaza
Heart of Fashion
iS bright, cheery
sports and casual wear in the
By CHARLOT M. DENMON latest of fashions for the young at
Staff Correspondent heart.
Such well-known fashions as
“I've always loved clothes and Tomboy, Bobbie Brooks, Pal-
my dream was to go into retail- metto, Coqui, Organically
ing,” said Donna Morrow, owner Grown, Oui, Sergio and Gitano
of Heart of Fashions, the new can be found in the new shop.
shop in Route 309 & 415 Plaza, Senior high and college students
Memorial Highway, Dallas. “It’s will find their favorite jumpsuits,
my first venture in the retail sweaters, cropped pants sets,
clothing business, but I love it. I Bonkers, the big shirt, skirts,
wanted a shop that was bright short sets, golf skirts,” bathing
and cheerful; that’s why I used suits and much, much more in
the heart motif.” junior and missie sizes. hot
: The new clip earrings, tha
Bright and cheerful Heart of .,,5 100k are gh item and
Fashions certainly is, with its all kinds can be found at the
large heart-shaped counter, con- yeqrt of Fashions as well as
structed by a local craftsman, in 11-060 beads and belts.
the center of the shop and the Donna, Who is a native of the
heart-shaped clock on the wall. Back Mountain, graduated from
Burgundy red carpeting COVers panaqgigh School, and is look-
the floor and full-length mirrors ing forward to seeing many of
are mounted on the sidewalls of her former friends in her new
the shop. Directly across from shop which is open Monday
Dallas Post/Charlot M. Denmon the Sivas Coke re through Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 6
Note anniversary DO Ha waious styles Pm. and Thursday through Sat:
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Lamoreaux, W. Franklin St., Shaver- they try. Lid from 19 am. os Bo Dallas Post/Chariot M. Denmon
town, celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary with an 3 young t will find that Store owner
Donna and her husband, Eric, young at heart w in a D M iot i Heart. of Fashi | ted in
Open House on Sunday, May 26. The couple are parents of opened Heart of Fashions, May ‘‘something different” at the onna Morrow, proprietor of Heart of Fashions locate
three children, William, Elmer and Gail Kaskulon. They also 2, with a large inventory of Heart of Fashions. the Route 309-415 Plaza, greets customers from the
have two grandchildren, Bradley and David. : custon-crafted heart-shaped counter as they enter the shop.
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Wedding
traditions
unromantic
According to the Census Bureau,
some 2.5 million couples tied the
knot in 1984, and more than 300,000
of them did so in June, America’s
favorite month for traditional wed-
dings. Today’s June Bride, however,
might be surprised to learn just how
far back the roots of our traditions
reach. Her counterpart in ancient
Rome wore a veil and flowers,
shared a wedding cake with guests,
was given a ring, showered with
rice and carried over the threshold.
Bernard Jacoupy, owner of Ber-
nard’s restaurant in Los Angeles
and founder of Les Amis de Grand
Marnier, an organization that
devotes itself to the theory and
practice of romance and romantic
customs, points out that ‘many of
the wedding customs we practice
today date back to the ancient
Egyptians, Greeks and Romans.”
“Interestingly enough, some of
our favorite wedding traditions -
suzh as carrying the bride over the
threshold - have decidedly unroman-
tic origins,”” he explains. This
custom began with the birth of
Rome when Romulus, the city’s
founder, sought brides for his bach-
elor warriors. When the neighboring
people, the Sabines, refused to give
up their daughters, Romulus invited
the families to a feast. On cue, the
Romans rushed into the crowd and
abducted the young women. And,
from ‘The Rape of the Sabine
Women’ comes the symbolic abduc-
tion the groom practices today.
Some customs that are more
romantic in origin include:
— The wedding ring, which has
always been a symbol of unity and
of the contract of marriage, was
used in ancient Egypt and was
probably made of iron. Rings were
also held to have magical proper-
ties, provided they were perfectly
round and unadorned.
— The fourth finger of the hand
was chosen as the ‘ring finger”
in that digit was in direct communi-
cation with the heart.
— Wedding cakes before the time
of Elizabeth I were dry, brittle
biscuits that were thrown over the
head of the bride and groom
because wheat was a symbol of
fertility. During the reign of Eliza-
beth, the bland biscuits were
replaced by sweet buns, and later
by large cakes which were also
(rather messily) thrown over the
couple’s heads.
— The ancient Greeks threw rice
and dried fruit over the bride and
groom to encourage fertility.
Another symbol of fertility is that of
the child bearing flowers - the
flower girl.
— Brides did not wear white until
the 16th century - in fact, they
usually just wore their best dress,
purely for economic reasons.
— In early Christian ceremonies,
the priest placed a wreath of flow-
ers upon the head of both bride and
groom to signal the start of the
ceremony. Usually, the wreath was
made of orange blossoms. Since
ancient times orange blossoms have
been considered the flower of
romance and the orange the fruit of
love. Today, products made from
oranges such as Grand Marnier, the
aromatic and romantic liqueur, con-
tinue to symbolize this celebration
of love.
— The ‘something blue” of the
traditional bride’s rhyme dates
back to the ancient Israelites, who
dressed the new bride in a blue
ribbon as a symbol of purity, love
and fidelity. The ‘‘sixpence in her
when the bridge brought three
coins, one for the husband, one for
household gods and one for prosper-
ity. The ‘something borrowed” was
for good luck. Something old and
borrowed was considered even
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