The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 6

r- Mini Wins-All Over The World i designer Vyacheslav Zaitsev paraded his comradely models on television in the longer skirls loaning fashion houses such as Dom Modely showed plenty of short dresses with long coats for spring but the maxi look was not catching on as fast as the miniskirt movement did Although the Soviet mass production manufacturers never got around to making mini-dresses Russian girls started shortening their own hems and having miniskirts made up by tailors almost as fast as their Western counterparts At the Centrotextil boutique in Belgrade the Yugoslav capital's answer to Fifth Avenue Kneza Mihajlova Street the 32-year-old proprietor Mirko Po-limac sniffed with disdain at the mention of the minL not fashion he said A less avant-garde boutique called Ateks had a different viewpoint Its 20-year-old salesgirl Jovanka Bajic said the cannot and do not gamble the same way Retailers and manufacturers in that fasion capital have admitted publicly that the entire mini-maxi controversy has depressed sales In Germany a relatively small number of younger girls mostly under 20 have started wearing cloth and leather maxi-coats over miniskirts during the past winter one of the toughest the country had known in years Only a small proportion of longer looks was shown in shop windows for spring although several stores said they plan to gamble next fall In colder Stockholm minis dominated the scene both in the shops and on the street Maxis are few and midis are fewer and Swedish men like most European males hate them you really like to ruin this city's only asked a 27-year-old student Haakan Bergman put a maxi on a girl with beautiful legs would be the same as to cover up the sun" In Eastern Europe the story midi and maxi are catching on harder with each successive season in the three main fashion capitals of Paris London and Rome Few girls have given up their minis as any tourist will note on a brief stroll through the streets In fact in Paris most skirts seem to have become shorter over the last year except for a scattering of midis and maxis among younger mademoiselles Shops in Rome seem to be selling more longer dresses than anywhere else In the Santo Agostino chain store clerks said mini skirts represented only about 20 per cent of sales and the rest were midi and maxi even to women" But on the streets only an estimated one-fourth of the girls are wearing the longer skirts changing hem lengths is a serious thing in a country where a bilingual clerk or a legal secretary is lucky to make 15000 lire ($24) a week and where clothes are top quality but expensive In London where ready-to-wear is so cheap and good that the city has become a shopping haven for women from all over Europe the longer skirts represent a sizable minority but seldom a majority of the stock in most stores The maxi caught on so quickly in Britain partly because manufacturers could produce it for such a low price a sizable selection of long skirts can be found for about $10 each that women could afford to experiment In Paris where a $20 skirt is considered a bargain women By Joan Deppa LONDON In France the mini-jupe still draws ooh-la-las on Paris boulevards In Moscow minyubkas turn heads in Red Square Whatever Europeans call it the mini-skirt remains their favorite hem length even if the maxi-midi look is a hot topic of cocktail party controversy A survey by United Press International correspondents in European capitals of both East and West from London where both the mini and maxi first made their mark to Belgrade where Yugoslav beauties lead the Communist fashion world shows that the new longer hemlines are having an impact but not always the one designers had in mind Budapest a state-owned clothing factory dutifully turned out a line of the latest maxicoats sent them to Romanian stores and got them all back several weeks later None had sold France even the refined models turned out by Paris high fashion designers failed to persuade most Frenchmen to accept the long look A public opinion poll showed 84 per cent wanted the women they escorted to wear short skirts in London where fashion trends and hemlines probably move faster than any major city in the world a major clothing manufacturer polled its customers between 25 and 50 years of age and found most wanted skirts just knee high That is where they will be for fall the company announced But among the very young and very fashion conscious the 1 I I maxi stand much of an overall chance against the mini sold maxicoats but not dresses or skirts And not midis in fact we had a few midis but only sold them after we shortened them" is the same but with interesting variations News of the midi-maxi look came to Russia last March 8 Day throughout the Communist world when the Soviet most prominent UP1 Ttltphots EYES TURN APPRECIATIVELY in Rome at the sight of mini-skirted such as this duo ascending the Spanish Steps Still Roman shops seem to be selling more longer lengths than anywhere else ttrrfttffiitfttiNtffitfftiWwrtmNVtimtkVirtttttmAJrfWtffleffit Cotillion Plans Finale GRAND FINALE Cotillion Club dance chairman Leo Hochdcrffcr Mr and Mrs Roy Hines and Mrs Hoch-derffer from left in photo right prepare decorations for the club's last dance of the season The event will be held next Saturday at 7 pm in the Palm Lakes Golf Club Justweds Establish Homes Morris-Courtney VISALIA Mrs Steven A Morris was Christine Courtney before her wedding in St Church The bride is the daughter of the William Courtneys She is an alumna of Mt Whitney High School and College of the Sequoias and is attending Fresno State College Also an FSC student and a Mt Whitney graduate is the bridegroom son of Mr and Mrs Roland Morris Lyon-Lewis MADERA A home in Madera has been established by newly married Mr and Mrs David Lyon who exchanged vows recently in the United Methodist Church in Madera Mrs Steven A Morris Mrs David Lyon Iwamoto-Haraguchi REEDLEY Margaret Mi-wako Haraguchi became the wife of Toshio Iwamoto in a recent ceremony performed in the Buddhist Church The bride daughter of Mr and Mrs Chikashi Haraguchi Mrs Toshio Iwamoto University and the Northrop Institute of Technology in Los Angeles A friend of the from Japan Yoshiko Hamada attended as maid of honor The newlyweds will reside in Belmont The bride the former Jennifer Lewis is a daughter of Mr and Mrs Lloyd Lewis parents are the Roy Ben Lyons The newlyweds were graduated from Madera High School and attended Fresno City College Lyon also attended Cuesta Junior College AM Radio Logs Roundup Of Valley Activities of Reedley attended a Fresno business school and Reedley College following her graduation from Dinuba High School The bridegroom is a son of Mr and Mrs Susumu Iwamoto who came from their home in Hawaii for the double-ring ritr ual He attended Oregon State IS teSSiJEBSSfflB 6:45 am to 7 pm Music 11 am KLIP KWIZ 11:55 am Agriculture Report Sunday 7 am to 5:30 pm Religion and Music 9:30 am Melodies of Japan 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The Alc-gria Guild of Madera has scheduled its annual Day In The Country to be held next Saturday The day-long festivities will include card games lunch a fashion show and a country store all to raise funds to support the Valley Hospital and Guidance Clinic The party will be held at the Adobe Ranch on the River Bend Road northeast of Madera Ready with one of the luncheon table decorations are from left Mmes Robert Stanfield Robert Blanchard and Clay Daulton Tickets at $350 are available from members.