The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04

Clothes and
Cocktails;
BY JULIA BLANSHARD
NEA Service Writer


NEW YORK, Nov. 4.-The tradi-
tional three RS of learning read
ing, 'riting and 'rithmetic-seem
hopelessly old-fashioned stacked up
against news from the college
front.
Three C's now take the place Of
the old three RS, in the CONVERSE
ton, if not the actual interest, of
women collegiates.
These three C's of college talk
are cocktails, clothes and competi-
tion-competition for social stand
ing and dates!
This, among other interesting
flashes from the front, comes from
a professional collegiate" the only
one of her kind, Frances Lee. Miss
Lee herself only out of college a
couple of years, is fashion and
beauty editor Of a national maya
zine and spends her time among
girl students at different universities
and colleges. She has visited 100
co-educational universities and
wonen's colleges, to date.
Liquor First Question
"One question everybody asks me
is whether there is more drinking
at women's colleges or at co-edu-
cational universities" Miss Lee told
me.
"The middle western coed never
fails to ask, do girls in the east
ir.I
from a woman's college usually re-
marks, well, I'll bet those goods
drink a lott" Prohibition seems to
affect colleges just as it does every
thing else"
Clothes play a much larger part
in the life of the coed than the
girl in a woman's college, in Miss
Lees opinion.
Dress Up for Men
There is an entirely different
idea in mind when the coed plans
her wardrobe from that that the
eastern woman's colleeg girl has"
she asserted.
AT co-educational colleges girls
dress for the man all the time and
use makeup all the time. They go
with more or less the same group Of
people all the time and are seen in
more or less the same setting.
$50 their idea is to get as many
changes of costume as possible for
the money they have, so they can
look different
Girls in women's colleges wear
just any old tweed skirt and sweater
blouse around the campus week days
and then put all their money into
one or two knock 'em-dead out
fits for the week-ends when they
go to football games and house par
ties
No Males, No Makeup
They use no makeup during the
week, but week-ends make up for
lost time They go to Yale one
week, Harvard the next, Princeton
the next, and so they can wear that
one perfect weekend wardrobe over
and over again and gain reputa-
ton for being tremendously chic
and well-dressed.
There is a further difference in
the attitudes in the two types of
colleges" Miss Lee continued.
I'm co-educational places there is
a strong competition for clothes
that eastern women colleges lack
entirely. Fur coats and diamond
rings talk in the mid-western uni
versities.
Democratic in East
cat the womens colleges, even
the richest girls are not distinguish
able from those attending on
scholarships. For millionaire daugh-
tiers leave their jewels in the family
vault when they go to college and
never would dream of taking their
ermine coats to the college campus.
There really is mich more genu-
inc democracy, it seems to me, in
the exclusive women'S colleges in
the effete east than in the mid
western universities"
This same holds true of social
competition, Miss Lee believes. Il
think the sororities are responsible
for many a broken heart" she told
me. "a girls entire college life is
greatly affected by whether or not
she makes a sorority, and the one
she wants to make.
Co-EducatiOn Has Advantages
TN a woman's college, girl has
more chance to stand on her own
personality, without being classified
as a member of this or that group"
However, co-education has many
advantages, in Miss Lees opinion.
Co-educational universities GER
tainly are more normal in the way
they bring men and girls together
on the campus daily. When the men
are around all the time, weekend
parties do not loom so important as
they do to the girl who has no mixed
social life except when she gets
away from the college.
Moreover, I think that much
larger percentage of girls in the
universities have a chance to go
socially than girls in woman's col
lege. Co-education gives girls a
much better balanced existence"