St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1960-07-08
Joyce Hughes Finds
MademoiseIIe Stint
Challenging Task
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sense. Joyce makes all of her own
clothes and has always been in
terested in fashion and designing
We walked through the bright
summer afternoon to a tea-room
type restaurant crowded almost
entirely with women diners. The
atmosphere was subdued, the tables
dime-sized. We ordered martins.
The waitress looked questioningly
at Joyce and asked If she was Of
legal age. Joyce offered to show
credentials. The waitress shook her
head impatiently and left to bring
our orders. The martins were fair,
the food neither good nor bad,
just tasteless.
The editors Of Mademoiselle,
wise in the budget problems OF
college girls, had prepared their
guest editors with advance advice
on items such as clothes suitable
for the New York summer weather
and cash outlay for food. They
counseled a minimum of four dol
lars day for food. In a town
where food costs read like the
national debt, this may be ade-
uuate but doesn't encourage gour-
met dining. Joyce said most Of
the girls skipped breakfast, had
mid-morning coffee, trusted to Soc
iaI invitations and luck for lunch
con and dinner.
II always select the cheapest
thing on the menu" she admitted.
Frankness is one of her virtues.
We stayed at the restaurant and
talked long after the waitress had
removed the last remnants OF our
luncheon. We discussed life in the
Twin Cities versus life in a big
town like New York. We analysed
the advantages of integrated col
leges.
Three years of integrated cam
pus life at Carleton College have
given Joyce a self-assurance and
poise that can be invaluable as
sets in a career where so many
business relationships are solidi-
fled in a social atmosphere. She
possesses a maturity of view on
life in general that is amazing in
girl of her age.
She has no plans for romance
or marriage in the immediate flu
ture. Her plans have to do with
work or more specialized study In
the field of merchandising.
We finally left the restaurant
and went to JOyCes room at the
Barbizon to talk more. All twenty
of the guest editors were housed
on the fourteenth floor of the
hotel. Joyce's room was the room
of a working career woman rather
than a college girl in New York
for a temporary stay. Notes and
papers were stacked around. Her
weekend laundry was spread
neatly on the single bed.
The schedule Mademoiselle had
worked out for the girls kept them
busy. There were trips to exotic
restaurants intermingled with Wis
its to fabric and designing houses,
fashion showings, cocktail affairs
They put in regular hours at the
Mademoiselle editorial offices and
were expected to conduct them
selves as editors.
Some people think this is
publicity stunt" Joyce said, adding
intently: 1T isn't. 1t is a sincere
effort on the part of the magazine
to find out what the college girl
wants, what she thinks, not only
on fashions but on current events,
world affairs"
She went into detail about her
work for Mademoiselle on the
Carleton campus.
Carleton is a highly intellec-
tual campus where fashion is con-
sidered more or less frivolous
she explained. It is a campus where
girls go in for casual sports clothes
rather than frilly gowns and dressy
accessories. Her job as a Made
moiselle fashion representative
was to make the campus more
fashion conscious. I asked her if
she sincerely felt she had been