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Show I "GAY GADGETS" Associated Newspapers WNU Fearures By NANCY PEPPER DENIM DELIGHTS Easter finery is only one part of a teenager's Easter wardrobe and l we know you're taking care of f- iA -Jk lerina suit and v Va topper. But how A about your new t "S playclothes? A w vA dose of denims is 'uV .5 FT7" the best remedy ' w can think of for spring fever. If you're the conservative type you'll stick to blue jeans, but if you're the hardy pioneer we hope you are, you'll switch to the red jeans that made their debut last summer and the green jeans thai are brand new this season. You'll see them in the stores, lurking behind be-hind the Easter coats and suits. The pedal-pusher length jeans, complete with workmanlike rivets are the very newest. It's Your Move There's a new blue denim jacket that will make you the cynosure of all eyes. Being the "cynosure" isn't as bad as it sounds, either. On the back of the jacket is painted a red and white checkerboard and on one of the but ton holes hangs a key chain full of little red and white plastic checkers When the crowd feels like playinj a game, they simply tear the shin from your back. ... CHEERFUL EARFULS You can't talk about teenagers without mentioning phonograph records, rec-ords, because teens and records stick together like two sides of a peanut butter sandwich. If Petrillo doesn't mind, we'd like to list the platters that now make the best listening. lis-tening. Polkas Preferred It all began with the "Too Fat Polka" by Arthur Godfrey and that "Papa, Won't You Dance With Me" disc. Now, you teens are collecting whole albums of polkas, such as the "Jitterbug Polka," the "Grasshopper Polka," the "Jellyroll Polka," "Rain, Rain, Rain Polka," "Slap Her Down Again Polka" and the "Hey Bob a Rebob Polka." Ask for them at your neighborhood neigh-borhood Wax Works. Opening Number Just as it's customary to end . a party with "Stardust," so it's becoming the style to start it off. with "Dance, Ballerina, -Dance." Hope those boys in the corner can take a hint. Whacky Waxes Every season brings in its silly symphonies, such as last season's "Open the Door, Richard." This year, you're listening listen-ing and laughing to Sinatra do the "Dum Dot" song and you think "I'm My Own Grandpa" is a riot. In fact, you're crazy about it. Or are you crazy from it? How Do You Feel? The answer to that one is "I Feel So Smoochy," ever since the King Cole recording of the song of the same name hit your town. Now everybody has it. everybody sings it and nobody, we hope, really means it! ! Gild the Lily You've seen those heavy gold plastic specs, haven' i you? Well, you can transform your own by covering them with gold paint. Try a half-and-half effect, with the bottoms of the frames and half of the sides left their natural color. |