Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-03

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lation, 1t - - sEf
turns out, is 49, E
looking long ~ =
ingly at every - =
pair of trou- w p
sers. They all
want 10 wear =
Stacks.
A quick
check with 4
the fashion
experts dis
closes that MIR. PICKERING
the stores are going crazy try
ing TO fill the demand for
Stacks.
The fact that nine out of 10
women look bulgy in Stacks,
and the tenth woman usually
refuses TO wear Stacks anyway,
doesn't bother them at all.
They're bound that they're 60
ing to wear trousers, and all of
us mere men can take it and
like it.
Betty Flannery. one of De-
troit's top advertising women,
said she wanted to see for her
self, so she went out 10 one Of
the nicer residential districts In
the northwest section on "A
Sunday morning.
That, understand. II one
Of the secret methods by which
the experts take the pulse of
Detroit's fashion impulses. Miss
>FIannery said she just stood at
bus stop, and In few min
~Ltes she saw four pairs OF
Stacks climbing into the buses.
That convinced her. II they
wear 'em Sunday morning. the
gals are getting serious about il.
Another one of the fashion
experts said. The biggest qucS-
ton in Detroit today j.: Who
wears the pants IN your fam
ily?" and last night the most
dangerous symptom Of all came
TO my ears.
A man who runs mems
clothing store said that women
were heckling hun, trying to
buy regular mems suits 10 make
into tailored Stacks outfits.
This il a serious matter. and
h.,s IN a.. al
TO do about 1T
The women have taken over
the barbershops, the ii -
cars. the saloons; they play
baseball. basketball and foot
ball: they even put on wrestling
bouts, such ~ they are.
And now they want 10 invade
mans last stronghold, the
mems clothing store.
So far this particular pro-
prictor has thrown the girls
out, and refused 10 sell 10 them
But he's weakening. little hy
little. Why. his own wife has
started getting suits from the
store. She wears the coats As
IS. but she cuts the trousers up
and makes skirts out of them.
That is some slight concession.
But the first thing We know,
she'll be wearing Stacks. and
all the gals will be invading the
mems shops. too and the last
male stronghold will be gone.
Don't let YOUR wife become
fth columniSti Keep the pants
stores lnviolatci
NOTES: Current story from
the West Coast. SAYS Dick Rich
ards, " about the people who
tried 10 be nice when the fBI
carted their Jap butler of 10
the calaboOse. when this war
IL over" they told the Jap COM
fortingly, Eve want YOU To
come back and work for US"
Replies the Jap butler imperi-
ously: when this war II over,
you'll be working for me-
Tanya Gollog, the model, re-
fuses 10 wear the currently
popular ankle chains that the
girls are sporting. Says she
ruins too many sheer stockings
by catching them on the chains.
Youngsters at Visitation
High School have their own ver-
sion. They wear dog collars
around their ankles. Been doing
1t all year, Doris Dunn says.
Police Commissioner Eaman,
eating all by himself at Cur
ney's Lou Koenlg, head of
the walters union, has gone 10
Hot Springs 10 recover his
health. -. Dick Jones of CKLW
is seriously Ill. The Herb
Coles, at the Old Wayne Club,
have a parrakeet, but can't tell
if it's male or female so they
named il Mikey-Jane.
Cab CallOway's show Except
Cab and the band) will move
into Club Congo after the New
Paradise. Band IL booked else
where. jefferson Beach Is
going 10 open earlier than ever
before this season--first sign Of
spring, maybe: Robert
Louis Stevenson il n Detroiter
"A ChrysIer engineer.