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THE MICHIGAN DAILY

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1951

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By A "MICHIGAN MAN"
Since it's a well-established custom that college students arrive
home for their Christmas vacations ladden with all sorts of mysterious
packages, I have recently resigned myself to the serious task of shop-
ping for Christmas presents.
When Christmas shopping must be sandwiched in between classes,
parties, and midsemesters, it takes on a definite aspect of seriousness.
The initial inkling of the trouble which would follow me through-
out the trying pre-Christmas period came when a few months ago,
I first wrote home for suggestions for presents. After five letters full
of harrassed pleas, I finally got an answer. I made out my shopping
list: Mother, perfume; Father, necktie; sister, Michigan man (if
not available, a scarf); brother, "M" sweater.
WHAT COULD be more simple than picking up a few gifts,
I thought.
The first item on my list was perfume, so after pausing outside
one popular women's store and furtively looking around to make
sure no one I knew was in sight, I steeled myself to enter. Elbow-
ing my way through several departments, I got anxious looks from
the saleswomen (it seems that during the Christmas rush, every-
one works on a commission basis) until I finally noticed strange
odors gently wafting through the air. Following the scent, I.
eventually came upon a counter with assorted bottles and boxes
precariously stacked to attract customers' attention.
I had just opened my mouth to ask the clerk what kind of per-
fume a mother would like when she gently raised a bottle from the
counter and squeezed "Delight in Madness" upon my lapel. Oh happy
day! Who should wander in but my girl. In my effort to duck into
"Ladies Hats" before I could be spotted, the boxes and bottles along
with "Delight" did triple spins and landed on the floor.
I GAVE UP the search for perfume for awhile until the coast
cleared and then nonchalantly strolled from the store. But who should
be gazing into the window of the store, but my girl!
"Delight in Madness" should have been called "Dead Duck,"
for when she detected that perfume on me, I was.
I had lost my girl, and missed a midsemester while hiding
behind the hats, and I hadn't even bought one present yet.
BUT SURELY buying a necktie wouldn't cause any trouble. How
was I to know my fraternity brother working in a men's clothing
store would sell me a tie for my father that lights up in the dark and
says, "Kiss Me Babe!" Just how can you explain a thing like fraternity
brothers to your mother?
I gave up shopping for a few days, but the next week, I re-
membered that I ought to be looking for a Michigan man or a
scarf for my sister. Seeing no likely-looking prospects thereabouts
(this seems to be the season when everybody gets "pinned"), I
decided to brave the shopping crowd again.
I pushed, I stomped, I dove head first, and still I couldn't get
close to the scarf counter. I saw red scarves, green scarves, black
and white scarves, red and green plaid scarves flash past my eyes, but
still I couldn't get close to the counter.
GRABBING an atrocious orange and purple number at last, I
threw my money at the clerk and was off for my one o'clock.
My only consolation during the next few days was the fact
that I had only one more thing to buy, and that shopping trip
turned out rather well in comparison to the other. It seems that
there isn't much of a rush on "M" sweaters this time of year. The
only -trouble I had was on the way out of the store when I got
caught in the revolving door. The box the sweater was in got
only a little crushed, and I felt it was quite fortunate that only
one sleeve was torn from the sweater.
But now mhy Christmas shopping is done. I've resewn the sleeve
on the sweater, ripped out the "Kiss Me Babe," gone blind from
the scarf and gotten sick from the perfume. I've even wrapped them.
AND NOW, since it's a well-established custom that college stu-
dents arrive home for their Christmas vacations ladden with all sorts
of mysterious packages, I will be able to walk in the door at home
with my head held high.
But I'm afraid when I walk in that door, I'll see boxes containing
perfume and neckties stacked high under the Christmas tree, my sister
in a purple or maybe even red coat, and my brother about four sizes
larger than the last time I saw him.
Just wait and see.

CONSERVATIVE VS. RADICAL:
Coeds Buy Splashy Neckties
WhileCollege Men Protest

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By MARILYN DAVIS
College women, not the men,
buy the bright splashy ties, which
usually end up in the bottom of
a drawer after Christmas is all
over.
A poll of six men's stores in
Ann Arbor has shown that a con-
servative tie is the most popular
with college men.
REPP AND regimental striped
ties stand first on the college
man's list. A new addition is the
narrow extra long four-in-hand,
tied in a Windsor knot. The square
bottomed tie is not being purchas-
ed as much as previously.
Becoming almost a classic is
the knit tie, in solid colors of
black, navy, maroon and gray,
but this year it too is longer and
narrower than usual.
Placing third in the poll in the
four-in-hand race is the small
neat pattern in foulard, a silk
weave. These are rapidly becom-
ing very popular with university
men.
THIS YEAR is the big year for
bow ties; whether it will last or
not remains to be seen.* But the
new thin bow has come way out
on top. It comes in repp stripes
or classic plaids. Surprisingly
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enough, plaid four-in-hands are
rarely sold to students, while the
plaid bow tie has been very much
in demand.
A different type of pattern is
seen in the Paisley tie which is
being pushed by men's maga-
zines as the newest thing. Al-
though not seen much yet
on students, certain professors
seem to have found them very
attractive.
For the individualist, there are
always unusual types of neck-
ware. A plain wool challey en-
hanced with pictures of geese or
horses' heads has been created for
the nature lover with a matching
vest as an added attraction.
The fastidious man may prefer
the imported Barethea silk tie
with small hand embroidered de-
signs.
The plaid tie and- matching
cummerbund are still as popular
if not more so than last year.
However, one exclusive shop shows
a midnight blue silk-satin com-
bination and a dark regimental
striped set as the newest things
out.
This then, the stores say, is
what rates with the college men
for Christmas or throughout the
year.

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Novel Gift Pens
Shown in Stores
By HELEN BROWN
For those who want to show the
joy they have for Christmas, a
new and novel pen has been put
on the market.
Shaped in the form of a bell,
and made of porcelain, the pen
possesses both beauty and season
spirit. Usually there are two or
more parts to the pen, each of
the parts, shaped like a bell.
Christmas familiars, such as St.
Nick, Holly Leaves, and Christ-
mas Trees, provide the themes for
the hand-painted scenes on the
pens.
For the more conservative, there
are pens which have written on
them, "Merry Christmas," and
"Happy New Year"; still others
are adorned with only a bit of
festive ribbon of red and green.
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