Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 April 1952 — Page 11

Times photo by John R. Spicklemire

STATE DAY CENTERPIECES—Mesdomes H. K. Nier, G. W, Skinner and E. J. Ashman (left to right) look over potted plants to be used as table decorations for Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority’s

Sorority

Country- Club. Members

Alumnae Club will be hostesses.

Mrs. T. H. Carlin is event chairman assisted by Mrs. Harry K. Nier and Miss Barbara Windt. Theme of the day will be a garden party with floral centerpieces and’ decorations of roses, national flower:of the sorority. International Reunion Day is held each spring in each state and some provinces of Canada in celebration of the founding of the sorority, There are two chapters in Indiana Eta. Chapter, DePauw University and Beta Delta The two under- Betty Wrege.

Chapter, Indiana University.

Indianapolis

palsy.

International Reunion Day Saturday.

to Mark Reunion Day

LPHA GAMMA DELTA SORORITY members in Indiana will celebrate International Reunion Day with a luncheon at 1 p. m. Saturday in Highland Golf and

graduate chapters will entertain with skits and singing. Chapter presidents will talk on the year’s. activities at the two colleges. Mrs. Truman C, Yuncker, Greencastle, chairman of the national altruistic project, will be a special guest. She will report on the work of pro-

viding scholarships for the training and placement of skilled workers in the fleld of cerebral

Committee members planning the event are Mesdames Allen Beard, Harry K. Nier, L. J. Freehafer, John Fenstermaker, Earl Conway, Howard E. Loyman, E. J, Ashman, P. H. McKinley, George W. Skinner, Merton, Johnson and Ronald Gilbert, Misses Barbara Windt, Jean Lawvere, Betty McLeod, Virginia Cravens and

Designer Gives ‘Inside Fashion Story’

By BETTY LOCHER Times Fashion Editer

HERBERT SONDHEIM, famous New York couture designer who is currently making a personal appearance in the Gown Room at Ayres’, gave the fashion press the “inside story” at a luncheon in Ayres’ Tearoom

yesterday. His answer to the $64 ques-

tion, “Why is there such a wide

difference in the prices of de-signer-fashions and fashions produced by such manufacturers as L’Aiglon, McKettrick, ete?” was clear and concise. There are many steps involved in the production of a “designer’’ fashion, he explained. First of all the first sample of a dress may cost $200 or more before it is completed. This original garment is never sold, so its cost must be absorbed in the price of copies of the sample,

» » » IN A LARGE manufacturing house where thousands. of copies are made from an original sample, the cost is quickly absorbed, In a courturier house

where only a few copies are made from the original, the cost adds considerably to the final price of the dress that is sold. The second reason is one of production. The more designs made from one original sample, the more efficient the operators become at producing it. Each time a design is hanged, the operations in producing that design must be changed. Cutting is also a factor in expense. . It is considerably cheaper to cut thousands of garments by machine all at one time than it is to cut a few at a time. Fit and accuracy may be sacrificed, but the woman who buys a lower priced dress does not expect the perfection of the cut and fit found in higher priced clothes.

Labor is another factor, The more intricate designs created by high fashion couturiers. require greater skill to execute. Skill is at a premium, therefore a skilled worker demands more money. » - ~ THE FINAL FACTOR that adds to the cost of the designer fashion is, of course, hand fin-

Mt. Olive Church Plans Talent Show

ishing—hand bound button holes, hems turned by hand, linings put in by hand, and a dozen or more inside details not apparent to the untrained eyes but which add to the final beauty of the gown created.

It has often been said, “You pay for the pame when you buy a designer fashion.” Actually you pay for the skill in design and workmanship and advanced styling. A designer dress ghould be in fashion at least three years, Prices, more often than’ not, are set by the labor union rather than by the designer or manufacturer. Mr. Sondheim feels that any woman who appreciates fine things will appreciate a beautiful gown and once she discovers its extra wearing qualities, she will prefer to buy two fine dresses rather than three less expensive ones. “The average American woman can do with fewer clothes in her closet. With good taste and wise choice she can be well dressed with very few ensembles in her wardrobe,” he summarized.

Times phofo by Dean Timmerman

. SHOW STARS—Margie Kay Camden, Joan White and Donna Lynn Andre.

REHEARSALS are keeping younger “% members of the Mt. Olive Methodist Church and their friends in Ben Davis

High School busy after classes these days. Under the sponsorship of the church's Youth Fellowship, “Spring Frolic,” a talent show, will be ataged at 7:30 pi m, Saturday in the high . school gymnasium. : Show proceeds will henefit the building fund of the church which was completely gutted by fire Sunday morning, Feb. 17. School chums of ‘ the young people’s group im Ben Davis have -of WXLW,

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duction,

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volunteered their help and talent for the pro- -

Carolyn Barnhart and Nancy Richison are show chairmen, Chapman are members of the general committee, The opening act will center around an Indian scene and chorus. Two very young dancers, Mike Davis, 6, tap dancer, and Margie Kay Camden, 5, wil hp featurad in the closing number, “April Showers.” Dale Cassiday and Donna Lynn Andre will sing the lead roles in. the number, 2 : Emcee for the program will be Mike Dunn

Edith Ann Shadley and Jim

200 Signed For GFWC

Convention

AFR. 26 is the deadline for Indiana clubwomen to make hotel reservations for the General Federation of Women's Clubs convention, It will be May 11-17 in Minneapolis.

Mrs. Henry Humphrey, Os-

good, Is arrangements chairman for the state, Two hundred of the state's quota of 300 reservations already. have. been made for the Radi®on Hotel, Indiana head-

quarters, Eola

PLANS FOR entertaining the Hoosier delegation include an informal get-together after the opening night dinner to rehearse the state songs to he sung from convention platform at 2:15 p. m. May 13." Invitations have been mailed for the Indiana Federation of Clubs’ reception in honor of

Mrs, Oscar A. Ahlgren, Whit.

ing, only GFWC presidential candidate,

It will be at 10:30 p, m. May | 16 in the Curtis Hotel Cardinal ! Room in the convention eity, |

Mrs. James J. Griffith, Whiting, is chairman,

Early reservations from the |

Seventh District, IFC, for convention here have been made by Mesdames E. C. Rumpler, TF. Fleck, A, C, Barbour, M. 8. Harding, J. P. Scott, W. D. Keenan, Carl Becker and W, E, White,

In a Personal Vein—

Will Attend

Texas Parley

Mrs, Ernest Heberlein, 6220 E. 10th St, leaves today for Austin, Tex., where she will attend the meetings of the Nae tional University Extension Association in the University of

Texas. s » »

W. D. PEAT, Herron Art Mu. |

geum director, will be in Cleveland tomorrow and Friday, to act as one of the jury for the Cleveland Artists Exhibition in the Cleveland Museum of Fine Arts. : He will return Friday to attend the lecture of Mme. Ramo~ la Nijinsky in the museum, then will leave Saturday for Columbus, O., where he will be juryman. for the coming Columbus Art League Exhibition. # * » MISS KATHERINE KON. OLD, freshman at Denison Uni+' versity, Granville, O., was recently initiated into Sigma Delta Pi, national Spanish language honorary fraternity. She is the daughter of Mr, and Mrs, W. E., Konold, 918 KE. 57th St. y

Highland

Sets Tourney

The Gross. and Net Tourna- | ment of Highland Golf and Country Club will open Apr. 25. | Initial activities will include a | business meeting on that day | in the club, | The tournament will continue | through October with two chair- | men for the Women’s Golf Com= | mittee each month. Mrs, J. W, | Kenney and Mrs. W, F., Kiley | are chairmen for April. Mrs, | R. H. Swallow and Mrs. Bert | Kingan Jr, will be in charge during May. Other chairmen are Mrs. C. B. Little and Mrs. L. D. Foster, | June; Mrs, F. A, Lobraico and Mrs. C. E. Johnson, July; Mrs. P. D. Whittemore and Mrs. Rick Herrick, August; Mrs. A, M. Donato and Mrs. J, W, Geller, | September, and Mrs. R. F, Betz and Mrss H, D, leer, October. Members of the committee for guest day will he Mesdames J. B, Wiles, H. T. Sexson, W, A. Kemper, G, W. Gerald and W, D. Lentz,

Group to Attend National Parley

Miss Alice June Carrigus, Fishers; Robin Powell, Johns Hopkins University, and Miss Constance Jenkins, New York, are tepresenting the Old Glory Society, Children of the American Revolution, at the national convention this week in Wash-

"ington.

A trip through the White House is on the convention scheduje, 01d Glory Society is sponsored by the Caroline Scott Harrison Chapter, DAR.

Newlyweds Leave On Miami Trip Mr, and Mrs, Walter C'. Ranaker left yesterday for Miami. The couple was married Kaster Sunday In the Third Christian Church with Dr, A, C. Brooks officiating, Mrs, Theodore A. Skillman was matron of honor and John Raitt, best man, The bridal dinner was in Holly Hock Hill. Bafore . her marriage Mrs, Renaker was Mra, Jane Artist, Green Tree Fatale, 4250 FF 3th 8t, Mr. Renaker is from Cincinnati, May 7 =the couple will be at home at the Green” Tree ‘address,

Sigma Delta Tau To Meet Sunday

Mrs, Francis Thomas, West Newton, will be hostess for a meeting of Alpha Chapter, Sigma Delta Tau Sorority, at 2

‘p.m. Sunday, Mrs, Paul Miller

will assist, Formal initiation services will ba conducted-for new -members. They are Mesdames John Humble, Clarence Privette and Farl «Wynn, Misses Louise Chamness, | Wiffle Himes, Barbara Hanna, Mary Smock afid Betty Wilson; |

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