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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1985
Page
8
The article describes 1830s dress styles with flensed waists and flounced skirts, high necklines with lace collars, and exposed shoulders for day wear. It notes fabrics like taffeta and brocade, pastel colors, and romantic influences, plus bonnet styles, parasols, and hair trends featuring high backs, middle parts, and decorative combs.
Robin Edgar of Aiken shares tips for period costumes such as leg-of-mutton sleeves using traditional wedding gown patterns and simple reticule purses. Marzie Brodie notes wedding dress styles remain popular, with ta ffe ta fabrics at about $2.29 a yard.
About 2 000 marchers walked from Selma to Montgomery to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act march. Black state officials greeted them at the white domed Capitol as Rev. Jesse Jackson and other leaders met Gov. George Wallace to press for voting rights reforms.
City officials will revisit a policy blocking business licenses when ad valorem taxes are unpaid. First reading approved funding to USC Aiken for the Etherredge Center. a grant application requires matching funds. The council discusses bids for water works, garbage trucks, and renovation of the Tri Development Center. three Southern Railway license agreements for water and sewer work are to be signed. An annexation petition by Mr and Mrs William C Rogers for Whiskey Road property is listed alongside recreation center rental rate changes.
A government release shows February unemployment at 7.1 percent overall, with adult men 6.3 percent, adult women 6.7 percent, teenagers 18.4 percent, whites 6.2 percent, blacks 16.3 percent, and Hispanics 9.7 percent. Analyst Deborah Klein notes volatility in the black rate and questions if the March trend will continue.
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