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  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1986-02-27_Vol51_No03_07

Bellybutton Chic The Fitness Evaze Allows for Sensual Styles Madonna may be on the way out, but her belly button endures. On runways from Paris, London and Milan to New York, the bare midriff look that the material girl flaunted in her early videos has emerged as the center of attention for the coming season. The provocative summer offerings — from shorts and abbreviated!—shirts for day to low-slung, sliver-thin skirts and bra tops for evening — may drive as many people to the health club (for tummy toning) as they do to the department stores. According to Bernard Ozer, fashion and marketing director of the Associated Merchandising Corp., "The bare midriff is the new erogenous focal point." This is, say the designers, a fashion movement with a message. Women are breaking out says a designer whose skimpy tropical summer collection includes bandeaux (bras) and cool, languorous skirts. They want to show off their body, to feel sexy. We've had androgynous dressing and strait-laced career dressing for a while, now there's a back-to- the-body movement. As for Madonna, Pinkerton insists that it wasn't the star's influence that opened up the middle. The bare-midriff look happened now simply because women have never been in better shape. Few designers demonstrate the body- conscious principle better than some whose snugly wrapped styles are aggressively sensual. Most pooular are the skinny bras that peek out from under by Stephanie Crocitto and Karen Sue Howard Fashion Editors a loose cotton-knit blazer which, paired with either a short or long skirt, creates a striking summer suit that can adapt to myriad occasions. The jacket you wear all week in the city, at work or school can be thrown over a bra top for perfect evening beach wear. It is said that the bared midriff is classic! Indeed, many of the movement's leading designers admit that these navel maneuvers are nothing new. The current crop of crop-tops, which end about an inch or two below the bust line —and look like something out of an old Lana Turner movie tend to prove it. One designers floral-print top is a clean, modern version of the standard Halter-cut. The short "poor-boy, skinny ribbed, candy-cane- striped turtleneck" looks like something Goldie Hawn might have worn on the old "Laugh-In" TV show. The bare midriff was a valid fashion statement in the 1950's and 1960's. But like many fashion flashbacks, it's success is due to MTV. This is where it becomes acceptable again. One good thing about the bare-midriff movement is that it may also prove the ultimate in affordable fashion. Just get your scissors and do it yourself. Hacking up a favorite shirt may be a painful task, but then no one ever said it was easy keeping up with fashion trends. Sometimes you just have to suck in your gut, grin, and bare it. WESTERN CAROLINIAN February 27, 1986 Page 7 City Lights: ANYTHING GOES-ALL MEDIA! PRIZES WILL BE AWARDED! WITH RECEPTION ON APRIL 17th 8PM 1ST EVER WCU ART FREE-FOR-ALL < SUBMIT BY APRIL 17th/18th SHOW WILL OPEN APRIL 17th & 18th EVERYONE MUST SUBMIT! (ALL OTHER STUFF WILL BE BURNED-SO MAKE 1 SURE ITS GOOD AND DRY!) OPEN TO EVERYONE (ALIENS INCLUDED) IN THE OLD STUDENT UNION BLDG. (WESTERN CAROLINIAN OFFICE) CONTACT FOR MORE INFO— JEFFREY RICHARDS, KEVIN KIRK PATRICK, ANDY ATKIN 227-7267 Hangout for Down Home Literati Fast becoming a popular meeting place for W. Carolina students and faculty, the City Lights Bookstore in downtown Sylva will host a reading of poetry and fiction work by New York City artist Penelope Schort and Western N.C. poet Jean Ellen Magers on Thursday evening March 6 at 7:30 pm. The readings-series, featuring noted published poetry and prose writers, which is sometimes sponsored by the Jackson County Arts Council, isan on-going attraction of the bookstore and a popular public service event. Following this month's reading to a full-house wilh nationally acclaimed novelist Sue Ellen Bridgers and poet Elizabeth Addison, the March reading promises to be an evening of big-city intensity, as evidenced in the prose and poetry of Ms. Schort, combined with the rural fireworks of the work of Jean Ellen Magers. A highly regarded and widely published east- coast writer, Penelope Schott is author of a novel: A Utile Ignorance (an exciting and contemporary coming-of-age' story), has published in such places as Ms. Magazine, the American Poetry Review, Georgia Review, and has published books of poetry including My Grandparents Were Married for Sixty-Five Years. "The truth is, time gives no guarter./The body becomesa stranger to itself/while wetsand undera full moon/glistensinthefoamy tide/and we beginto live in the mind/mining the world and memory/The truth is,/we must make more good-byes/must make the long rapturous descent/into caverns/more lonely, more remote." says Ms. Magers in one of her more contemplative poems entitled 'Sea Shores'. Ms. Magers, who is widely published in a variety of south-eastern journals and national magazines, and author of a book entitled Mountain Women, is a native and long-time resident of Jackson County and is currently Director of Admissions at. Southwestern Technical College. Members of the student body and faculty who hail from a big cityenvironmentand enjoy the northeastern urban images of such poets and writers as Joyce Carol Oates, Norman Mailer, Frank O'Hara, early Diane DiPrima, and the surrounding countryside symbolism of their rural counterparts such asGalwayKinnelland Robert Penn Warren will surely enjoy this evening of work to be shared with this Western North Carolina community by these two dynamic and talented writers. Host for this reading series: City Lights Bookstore, Welcomes and encourages all those members of the university and surrounding community with even a faint interest in the literary arts to become a regular member of the growing audience supporting and attending these popular literary 'soirees'! The events of the evening will begin at 7:30 pm at 55 E. Main St. in downtown Sylva across from the old Ritz Theatre, and will be followed with 'round-robin' readings from members of the audience wishing to share individual poems with the group. Afterwards.there will be a time for casual conversation with the authors and friends, along with refreshments. There is no admission charge, and the English Dept. faculty and Department majors are encouraged to take notice of this unique evening's opportunity. ■CONCERT INFORMATION- LIVE IN ATLANTA 688 FEB. 28 MARCH 1 MARCH 6 MARCH 7 MARCH 8 MARCH 13 MARCH 14 _BUTTHOLE SURFERS PRESSURE BOYS .WALL OF VOODOO BONGOS JESUS & MARY CHAIN DEAD MILKMEN PLAN 9 ASHEVILLE CITY MUSIC HALL FEB. 28 MARCH 1 MARCH 5 MARCH 6 & 7_ MARCH 8 .HURRICANES GIRAFFIC RAGGAE MCDIBB'S FEB. 28 MARCH 1 MARCH 4 8c 5. MARCH 7 __OFF THE RECORD - THE BAND — original members except Jim Weider replaces Robby Robertson WAZ - Red hot blues RORY BLOCK BLUES - Blues -OPEN STAGE — Bring your instruments _DAVID WILCOX - Guitarist MARCH 8TIM ADELL, TOM DRUGHTON, 8c KELLY WILKINSON Irish traditional FREE FLICKS—Jackson County Public Library Thursday 3:30 & 7:00 PM MAR. 6- BEN HUR— 1959- Academy Award winning biblical drama with Elizabeth Taylor. 13 - FATHER OF THE BRIDE -1950 - satire of "modern" mar- raige customs. 20 - GRAPES OF WRATH - 1940 -Film of John Steinbeck's novel of the depression era dust bowl migration to California. 27 - THE GREAT ESCAPE - 1963 - Hollywood version of allied prisoners' escape from Nazi P.O.W. camp in 1945. WWCU - SINGLES - WEEK ENDING FEB. 28 KYRIE MR. MISTER HOW WILL I KNOW LIVIN' IN AMERICA. SECRET LOVERS _WHITNEY HOUSTON JAMES BROWN ATLANTIC STARR LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN- SARA . 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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University's student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.

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  • Western Carolina University
• Format
  • Publications (documents)
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• Date
  • Date original: 1986-02-27
  • Date digitized: 2019-03-21
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  • Dimension: 22.75" x 15"
  • Pages: 14 pages
• Subject - Topic
  • College student newspapers and periodicals
  • Cullowhee (N.C.) -- Newspapers
  • Universities and colleges -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee -- Newspapers
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  • Jackson County (N.C.)
  • Cullowhee (N.C.)
• Source institution
  • Western Carolina University
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  • WCU Students Newspapers Collection
• Identifier
  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1986-02-27_Vol51_No03
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  • Western Carolina University Hunter Library