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Show Stale's Champions Aflend Style Show I 01 national Vool Sewing Contest Ih :;:. if." -.? n 7 .1 . j . I ; I ' arriTiinmniiiMiMfinYitWii aii mfmimi jmih niiiifi aaiiriiiiTriwriiT1iilwitfrtii itin ijnaiaahiaaii larmMm i flumi mi ril (Wool Bureau photo) Modeling their own home-sewn fashions, Utah's junior and senior sewing champions ore seen in Long Beach following their appearance with the champions of 1 3 other states in the National Fashion Show, final event of the 1953 "Make It Yourself with Wool" Contest. The young women are Janice Christenson (right), 17, of Salt Lake City ond Jean Taylor, 22, of Logan. LONG BEACH, Calif. Utah's Junior and senior home sewing champions in the seventh annual "Make ItaYourself with Wool" Contest Con-test have climaxed a four-day tour of Southern California by appearing ap-pearing as their state's representatives in the famed National Fashion Show, held this year in the Municipal Auditorium, Long Beach. The young women are Miss Janice Christenson, 17, of Salt Lake City and Miss Jean Taylor, 22, of Logan. As winners of area and state eliminations, they earned the chance to model their own all-wool all-wool fashions in the contest's top event appearing with the sewing champions of 13 other Western states. Miss Christenson's winning entry in the junior division is a moss green suit of boucle. Its fitted jacket has three-quarter length sleeves and hipline vents. The skirt is flared with side pleats at the waist. Miss Taylor won the senior title with a softly-tailored suit of "Christmas ribbon" red, combining boucle with wool gabardine. The finger-tip jacket features curving lines, dipped low at the back, and pockets set into diagonal line at the front. The straight skirt is of matching gabardine. The two state home sewing champions received all-expense-paid trips to California, to be guests at the 89th annual convention of the National Wool Growers Association and to participate December 9 in the National Fashion Show. They traveled to and from California as guests of the F. W. Woolworth Company. Designed to create interest in the art of sewing at homo with irgin wool fabrics, the "Make It Yourself with Wool" Contest is held in all states of the Western wool-growing empire. It is open to all girls from 14 through 22 years of age. Those from 14 through 17 enter the junior division; those from 18 through 22, the senior division. The Women's Auxiliary of the Utah Wool Growers Association and the Wool Bureau sponsor the contest each year throughout the state. Mrs. M. V. Hatch of Panguitch was President of the Auxiliary and State Contest Director during the 1953 event. |