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Show State Champions Attend Style Show Of National Wool Sewing Contest P w 1 vW V Wwm I ' , ,1 til ' I , -A . ! ; I 1 i ; L - - m. -Hi f " '. )in - (Wool Bureau Photo) Dtah's two home sewing champions In the "Make It Yourself with Wool" Contest, Miss Haruko Terasawa (left), 20, of Salt Lake City and Miss Charlotte Taylor, 17, of Ogden, are seen with Mrs. M. V. Hatch (right) of Panguitch, after taking part In the contest's famed National Fashion Show, held In Chicago. CHICAGO, m. The two Utah champions in the sixth annual "Make It Yourself with Wool" Home Sewing Contest, Miss Charlotte Taylor, 17, of Ogden, the junior title-holder, and Miss Haruko Terasawa, Tera-sawa, 20, of Salt Lake City, the senior winner, have taken part in the contest's famed National Fashion Show, held this year in Chicago as the climax of the 1952 competition. They won the chance to model their own creations in the professionally pro-fessionally staged event by taking all honors in area and state elim- . inations in Utah. Miss Terasawa's winning entry was a tailored suit of brown all-wool worsted, while Miss Taylor won her title with a full-cut coat in Rio red all-wool suede cloth. Contestants in the annual event compete in two classes the Junior Class, for girls from 14 through 17, and the Senior Class, for girls from 18 through 22. Wearing their winning-entry fashions, the two young Utah women appeared with other top-ranking home sewing experts from 13 Western states in the final event of the annual $25,000 prize contest. As State Champions, they received all-expense-paid trips to . Chicago, to be guests at the 88th annual convention of the National Wool Growers Association and to participate in the National Fashion Show. They traveled as guests of the F. W. Woolworth Company. The ."Make It Yourself With Wool" Contest is conducted each year throughout the Western wool-growing empire by The Women's Auxiliary of the National Wool Growers Association and The Wool Bureau, with the cooperation in Utah of the Utah Wool Growers Association. Mrs. M. V. Hatch of Panguitch is Utah Auxiliary President and Mrs. Wynn S. Hansen of Collinston has served as State Contest Director. |