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ASBURY PARK. SUNDAY PRESS, Sept. 23, Modeled here are two of designer Hazel Haire's cable fashions that promise longevity. Studio Apartment If Decor Makes Space Count Make every square inch count. That's the formula to follow when you are decorating a one-room apartment.

The aesthetics must be considered too, of course floor treatment, furniture designs, color scheme, fabrics, and. window dressing but all these choices must work in tandem with an arrangement that makes the most out of existing space. Dual-purpose furniture is quite naturally a must for a small apartment. The bed one sleeps on must also serve as a sofa. The desk does double duty as a dining table.

Dining chairs pull up to join the main conversation area when company comes. Tables that do nothing other than support a lamp are spurned in favor of Weddings- Smikovecus- Torre LONG BRANCH The marriage of Miss MariAnn Grace Torre and Milan Paul MRS. MILAN P. SMIKOVECUS. Former MariAnn G.

Torre Mahan-Foster BEACHWOOD St. Paul Lutheran Church was the setting for the wedding of Mrs. Sandra Lee Foster, 505 Avon Pine Beach. and Thomas F. Mahan, 53 0 Seaside Park, yesterday.

The Rev. A. Bruce Amme officiated. The bride's parents are Mr. and Mrs.

Thomas R. Eaton Madison. The bridegroom is the son of Edward J. Mahan. New Port Richey.

and Mrs. Anne Stryker, 206 Ridge Middletown Township. Mrs. Thomas R. Eaton Ill was matron of honor.

Mr. Eaton III, the bride's brother, was best man. The bride was graduated from Madison High School; Lindsey Willson College in Columbia, and Eastern Kentucky University at Richmond. She is employed by W.T. Grant Co.

Mr. Mahan, who attended Middletown Township High School, served four years in the Coast Guard. He is Music At Its Best on WJLK Designer Hazel Haire's Creations Keyed to Functionality, Practicality By MARIAN CHRISTY NEW YORK "Women don't buy clothes because it's a new season. They are mesmerized with practicality." says 33-year-old Hazel Haire, one of Seventh avenue's prettiest and most purposeful fashion designers whose clothes are now sold in 500 stores. It sounds like she's knocking fashion but, of course, she isn't.

Hazel, who designs for Henry Friedricks and once worked for Geoffrey Beene, is a new breed of designer who believes that fashion isn't the status-ridden madness it used to be and, not so incidentally, that clothes must accommodate current life styles or fizzle. "Fashion is a functional vehicle in which a woman moves." she says. "Competition being what it is today, it's awfully important for a woman to look sleek and attractive. Women know fashion can be an asset. They still want to make a big splash.

But it has to be within the realm of reality." HAZEL'S current claim to fame and she is establishing a name are clothes which promise the potential of triple or quadruple performance. Example: She has created a barber-pole-striped wool jersey maxi that wraps on. It can be a casual bathrobe. It could become an evening dress when the right accessories are added. Or it can be a long coat over a solid gown.

"I've even worn it to the beach over a bikini as a sun protector," says fair Hazel who's a redhead with personal flair. The many -splendored clothes are in the range and, in addition to alternative uses, promise a certain amount of longevity. The fall-winter collection features terra-cotta wool sweaters to team with coordinated trousers or skirts. But the spring. 1974, line out in January will feature silk terra cotta print shirt dresses.

The idea is that the sweaters coordinate with the upcoming dresses in a kind of timeless merger. Hazel's evolutionary idea is a bit revolutionary because it pumps holes in the old-fashioned theory that a woman must clean out her closet every season and start all over again. "FASHION should be an easy, uncontrived pleasantry which adds a dimension to living. When a woman has to worry about what to wear with what, she's got an extra unnecessary headache." Like most designers, Hazel's fashion ideas are projections of her own reactions to the problems of personal dressing. Hazel, who is slim, often unwittingly gains a few pounds if she dabbles in desserts.

"I've always had two wardrobes," she says. "One for my fat self and one for my skinny self. But that takes a lot of closet room." The clothes she designs are cut and sized generously, there's no sense of confinement and a woman doesn't have to worry about a few extra pounds. She understands the zoom- zoom life busy professional women lead. She and her husband, free lance designer Bill Haire, who used to create those sumptuous Victoria Royal clothes, have a sumptuous East 73rd apartment and, before heading for the office, her early mornings are spent organizing things at home.

"Then," she says, ticking off her typical schedule, "I work in the sample room with my pattern makers, go to a luncheon with a magazine editor, and spend the afternoon scouring the fabric market." The fashion point is that there are millions of women who live similar lives and, furthermore, go straight from the office to cocktail parties. WHILE EUROPEAN designers are pooh-poohing the pantsuit, Hazel a native New Yorker considers trousers the all-American look. Hers often are done in cable knit and worn with wrap sweaters or cardigans-andshirts. It's a look that will take a woman through hectic day-to-evening regimes. "It's terribly important for the over-30 woman to keep up appearances," says Hazel who.

practices what she preaches. "American is embroiled in a youth syndrome. The mature elegante is always selling herself through her image. Fashion is part of her self. psychology." Hazel, a real party giver and goer, says that the most serious faux pas are committed in the name of fashion and reflect badly on the wearer.

"It kills me to see women wearing pantsuits that stop at the ankle," she says. "Even some of New York's top, models do it." The Hazel Haire pantsuit nearlyhouches the floor in back and breaks on the instep in front. When Hazel goes to functions at the Metropolitan Museum, she people watches. "I've seen a lot of women come to opening parties wearing obvious at-home caftans which are divine loungewear after a long hot tub," she says. "but they're terribly wrong for parties." HAZEL'S initial interest in fashion began when she was 9 and her father, a wire service executive, would bring home pictures of the latest Paris- is Rome-Madrid fashion.

Within a year she was sketching costume ideas for the Ice Follies. "I never went out and played," she says. "I just dreamed of doing something in fashion. It all started with daddy's pictures." Hazel met her husband at the Art and Design High School in Manhattan and they were married during their college days at the Fashion Institute of Technology. The only big fight they've ever had is whether he or she should design her wedding gown.

The bride had the final say. "It was my first statement of fashion rebellion." says Hazel about her 1956 midi dress. "I walked down the aisle of the Little Church Around the Corner wearing a tight fitting sheath in an era when bouffant skirts and crinoline petticoats were the thing. I've always wanted to break away from the fashion norm." Designer Paul Krauss makes the most of space in a one-room apartment. Unsightly flaws are overcome by yellow plaid fabric for walls and speckled vinyl tile for the floor.

Bed-sofa is flanked by triple-role table for work, dining, hobbies. Modular furniture provides vertical storage on one wall; pass-through fitted for dining. for an assemblage of wall units which house television, stereo, and a large library of books. The splintery floor was another problem that was solved by a covering of speckled white vinyl tile. Over the tile is a small area rug which sparkles in tones of red, orange, and avocado.

Two handsome Chippendale armchairs lend elegance and charm to the arrangement which is essentially an eclectic mix of designs. We are moving into our first apartment which 1 is small and has little space. In order to add as much storage as possible we are buying modular units which include space for entertainment equipment, TV and books, as well as drawer space. Eventually, this furniture will he put in a den or child's bedroom when we move. Should be buy it in a pine finish or in a colored finish for our present living room? If you are eventually putting it in a den or family room, buy the pine.

For a boy's bedroom the pine is also suitable, but if it is to go into a girl's room, I would recommend a painted finish or a softer wood finish. We expect to do our liv. ing-room color scheme around a new rug which we recently purchased. The rug is in tones of brown and blue on a beige ground. There is also a little red in the rug.

What color for walls, sofa, other upholstery? You can take the color scheme in any direction. If you want it to be bright, make the sofa red and then use beige and blue in other upholstery, with beige walls. Cake Decorating Classes Courses in elementary and adv. anced decorating techniques (flowers, butter cream, royal icing, gum paste, etc.) BEGINNING OCTOBER 8TH MEETING WEEKDAYS WEEKENDS Write or Call for information GEORGIA'S CAKE DECORATING STUDIO 1191 RI. 37 East Toms River, 341-0745 ACCREDITED BEAUTY CULTURE SCHOOL LOANS and GRANTS GARDEN STATE ACADEMY of HAIR FASHION and COSMETOLOGY Main Broad Eatontown 542-0153 Need sales action? Advertise in The Press Engagements Gerechoff- Faiella OCEAN TOWNSHIP Mr.

and Mrs. Herman Gerechoff, 711 Myrtle West Allenhurst, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Randy Elaine, to Alfred L. Faiella, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Catallo, Melrose Long Branch.

Miss Gerechoff is a graduate. of Ocean Township High School and the American University, Washington. She teaches at Dwight D. Eisenhower School, Freehold Township. Mr.

Faiella is a graduate of Red Bank Catholic High School and Newark College of Engineering. He attends Seton Hall Law School. RANDY E. GERECHOFF TO OUR READERS The deadline for all engagement and wedding stories and pictures to be published in the Sunday Press is noon Monday in all bureau offices and noon Tuesday in Asbury Park. Material received after these deadlines will be published in subsequent editions.

GET BATHROOMS READY FOR GUEST A family of guests can put a burden on bathroom facilities, so think about this before the company arrives. If facilities can't withstand much additional use, work out a bath schedule that insures ample hot water for each bather. Other thoughtful considerations include having a good supply of clean towels and washcloths handy and enough towel racks to go around. Additional standing racks may be set up quickly. Or, if space is scarce, put a free-standing towel rack or hooks in guest bedrooms.

Put out fresh bars of soap for sinks, bathtubs and shower stalls and keep a reserve supply in a large apothecary jar or decorative bowl. Quick reference to reliable craftsmen Directory of Services, classified section. Nagy-0 Kelly OCEAN TOWNSHIP Mr. and Mrs. Alexander G.

Nagy, 235 Oakhurst Oakhurst, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Debra Dorothea, to Dennis Patrick O'Kelly, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert O'Kelly, Park Place Bradley Beach. Miss Nagy, a graduate of Ocean Township High School, is employed by Freedman's Bakery, Deal. Mr.

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Here, storage for personal belongings as well as books. linens, and dining materials can be provided along with units that also house television, stereo, and bar facilities. CORNERS and small wall areas should not be left bare. Whenever possible they should be filled with some storage or seating unit that can be drawn into the main arrangement when needed, or else provide still another hiding place for possessions within the confines of one small room. Designer Paul Krauss, A.I.D., made every inch count in his handling of a New York apartment, making it as functional as it is attractive.

To solve the problem of cracked walls and to bring in a sunny mood, he wrapped the walls with a sunny yellowand-white textured plaid fabric which he also used as tieback draperies at two narrow windows. The zingy yellow of the plaid has been repeated in the yellow cover of a Simmons Hide-A-Bed, flanked at one end by a small campaignstyle chest table which holds some of the linens for the dining top of a pass-through to the kitchen. On the other side of the sleep-sofa is a rich rosewood library table which does triple duty, for letter writing and homework, for buffet entertaining, and for working on a hobby. The table takes the place otherwise occupied by an end table and holds one lamp near the wall and fairly close to the sofa. A chair covered in the happy plaid of the walls slides under the table and so does a small Jacobean-style bench.

A TINY WALL space between the windows does not escape service. It's just the right size for a wicker chest which holds bed linens inside, and supports books and magazines on top. One large wall opposite the sofa is the place COME SEE OUR EXCITING FALL COLLECTION Handbags are our bag FASHION BOUTIQUE 2040 Hwy. 35, WALL, N.J. FRI.

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John Doherty officiated. Parents of the bride are Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Torre, 400 Westwood here. The bridegroom is the son of Ted Smikovecus, Scotch Plains.

Miss Angela Torre was her sister's maid of honor. Harry Smiles was best man. The bride was graduated from St. Vincent's Academy, Newark, and attended Brookdale Community College. She is employed by N.J.

Bell Telephone Neptune. Mr. Smikovecus is a graduate of East Side High School, Newark, and Rutgers University. He is employed by the Neark Star Ledger. Following a trip to Spain, the couple will live in Eatontown.

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