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Show ALL DUNN by Roy Dunn HOWDY FOLKS All our lives we might have heard someone say; "She wears the pants in that family." Of course this meant she sorta run things around that house and her husband kinda played second fiddle. It ain't necessarily so any more 'cause most all the gals wear pants, and I suspect they run things around their house too, but wearing pants has sorta sor-ta become the thing to do, regardless re-gardless of who runs the house. And it's getting worse all the time. The pant makers never had it so good for all shapes and sizes are being stuffed down into pants these days. I saw a gal the other day that must have put those pants on when she was eight years old, and just sorta growed into them. The law of physics would not have allowed her to get into those pants any other way. Norman Norell, a designer of women's wear, predicts that forty five million pair of women's wo-men's trousers will be sold this year in the U.S. But he sayf, also: "Every time I ship a box of pants to the stores I worry about who is going to wear them." But the fabric manufacturers manufac-turers are happy for it takes three yards of material to make a pair of pants, as compared to one yard for a mini-skirt The fashion for men has already al-ready started in Paris, and it won't be long getting over here. What is the new fashion for men? Dresses, of course. Yeah, men will be wearing dresses sooner or later. And why not? For years we men have had the last laugh. After all, it wasn't the male of the species that needed adornment and trimming. The girls were the creatures that longed for padding where it counted and pruning where it was needed. There were facial creams, jellies ,and coloring for the women. There were stuff to make them smell good and stuff to get the smell off. Women used stuff to make oily skin dry and dry skin oily. There was slick covers for lipstick lip-stick and even lipstick under-coatings. under-coatings. All you gotta do is look in the new editions of mail order catalogs to see new ways of hiding the truth. Little girls might be taught to be honest but only until they discover little boys. Being truthful has nothing to do with being pretty, and we men were above it all, weren't we? Of course the guy who wore the hairpiece (I still call it a toupee) was just an exception that proved the rule. The lines were sharply divided and there was no other way. But now, all that has changed chang-ed and our he-man athletes spray their hair to make it look better. There are powders and perfumes in nine different flavors to make the male smell nice. Although there are no false eyelashes for men, they are on their way "in". And being "in" these days is the only way to be. Dadgummit, they even have false sideburns for men. Not only that, but they also have false beards, and false moustaches. mous-taches. Since hair lots of hair all over is the current fad, men who don't have the courage to grow a beard, can buy instant courage. These days, clean shaven men are "out of it". And when you're "out of it", brother you have had it. A good quality man's beard, moustache or set of sideburns can run twenty-five dollars. And style-conscious men can choose from a large variety. There is the dashing Royal Air Force eye-brow pencil-thin moustache, guaranteed to help you shoot down that Nazi plane. Then there is the Foreign Legion Le-gion moustache which may be needed to sniff out prospects for a wild night. Errol Flynn moutaches will probably require special licenses licen-ses issued by local police departments. de-partments. If you want to start a revolution, revo-lution, there is always the Fidel Fi-del Castro beard which guaranteed guaran-teed to produce plenty of sugar su-gar from the cane fields. As for me, I'm gonna sit back and see if this fad is gonna gon-na stay. If it does, maybe I'll indulge. But by that time there will be plenty of used face foilage in the second-hand stores. They'll be cheaper, and who'll know they are used? SEE YA'ALL LATER P.S. Hope you folks will excuse me while I say something to my daughter, over in ft ' vada. "A few years ago. : r date, you came to 111 us." HAPPY BIRTZ PATTY!" Ct |