Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-19
STYLE SHOW FOR.
n. Q. STATE APR. z.
Numerous Other Institutions,
To Cooperate in Event
Next Week

Raleigh, April N-On April Zz2the,
tenth annual Style Show, conducted,
bv the Textile, School of North caro-
lima State College and the home eco
Monies departments of North Carolina
colleges for women will be held at Ra-
leigh. Started in 1928, in order to aid
in popularizing cotton and rayon pro-
ducts, this Style Show has developed
into one of the important events of
the year at State College and has ma
terially benefited Textile students be-
cause it affords them an opportunity
to study the type of fabrics which APP
peal to young women.
This year the cooperating institu
lions are:
Appalachian State Teachers College,
Boone; Catawba College, Salisbury;
Elon College, Elon; Flora Macdonald
College, Red Springs; Greensboro Col
lege, Greensboro; High Point College,
High Point; Louisburg College, Louis
burg; Meredith College, Raleigh;
Peace Junior College, Raleigh; Salem
College, Winston-Salem; Woman's Col
lege, University of North Carolina,
Greensboro.
Fabrics designed and woven in the
textile school have been supplied to
138 young women who, as a part of
their classroom work. in home ecOnO-
mics, will make costumes which they
will model at the Style Show. Thus,
these annual Style Shows demonstrate
to the public the high calibre of work
done by the Textile students at State
College and by young women in the
home economics departments of the
cooperating institutions.
1t is interesting to note that 1T of
these young women are from North
Carolina and that their homes are To-
Gated in 80 different cities, towns and
villages scattered from one end of the
State to the other.
Twenty-one, or slightly more than
Is per cent are from the State of Vir-
glnia, South Carolina, Tennessee, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and
West Virginia. Virginia leads the out
of State group with representatives,
while South Carolina is second with
five. Greensboro and Winston-Salem
lead the North Carolina cities with 6
representatives. Raleigh and Colds
boro are next with four representa-
tives.
Immediately following the Style
Show, which will be held in Pullen
Hall at p. M, the textile building will
be open to the public and the textile
students will hold their 18th annual
Students Textile Exposition. For
weeks these students under the direc-
ton of M. B. Payne of Kannapolis, a
member of the senior class who YVES
elected superintendent of the 1887 Ex-
position, have been preparing for this
event. and visitors to the Textile
building will see textile students dem
onstrate the processes required to
transform raw cotton into finishing
fabrics and hosiery.
Other student officials are as fol-
lows:
Foreman of yarn manufacture, E.
w. Blackwood, Swepsonville, N. c.;
Assistant foreman of yarn. manufac-
ture, c. ]. Squires, Draper, N. c.:
Foreman. of Knitting, C. E. Johnson,
Liberty, N. c.; Assistant foreman of
knitting, r. E. Dixon Winston-Salem.
N. C.; Foreman of Weaving, N. M.
Dalrymple, Jonesboro, N. c.: Assist
ant foreman of Weaving, T. M. Ty-
ner, Shelby, N. c.; Foreman of design
ing, j. A. Boland; Burlington, N. C.:
assistant foreman of designing, B. H.
Sigmon, Alexis, N. c.; Foreman of dive
ing, E. S. Horney, Greensboro, N. G.:
Assistant foreman of dyeing, J. e.
Spalnhour, North Wilkesboro, N. c..