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I Slasher squad hits council page 23 Bicycle club rolling page 12 Home Newspaper of Halton Hills April 11 ll SECOND SECTION jHALTONS PEOPLE Designer wants Acton on fashion map Herald staff writer At this point in time the town of Acton is not thought of in he same breath as cities like New York London and Paris whin it comes to But design selling dot in Kills second largest community is a woman who has designed clothes for the world famous fashion mo del Twiggy as well as worked with renowned designer Mary Quant Acton fashion designer lis Jamieson thinks the fact that women are ignoring the traditionally feminine look is driving men to wear longer hair and Men demand femininity It part of their psychological makeup Thais why they re wearing their hair long and weanngjewellry If they don get that femininity from own women then they re going look somewhere else she tells women Mrs Jamieson the owner of Fashions on Street in Acton his been in the fishmn business for years She was born In England but spent much of her in London She is in Oxford graduate and had her own shop in Richmond Gird ens in the west end of London prior to her irrnge to Don She is a fashion consultant as well as a designer and for that reason she can look at a customer and go directly to a dress for her on her I know what suits people sic I know anatomy and bone structure so 1 know whit a customer will look well in That my job Today fashions ire here to stay for a long time she feels TIilv ire made from fabrics so thai women don have to worrj about dry clean bills this makes them very wearable They have waistlines lhal are visible The new yokes and sleeves suit mosi figures and the fuller skirts freedom of move ment All together present arc better than ever Mrs Jamieson recalls visit me a model often with the mini skirt she convalescing from tubcrculo British doctors found many women were having serious medical problems is a result of the extremely short skirls and eieniually to cloth asking them to see what they could do to change the She was working for Quant it that time and they up with the maxi look for the Dolly sisters That was the introduction of longer skirts and I he solution British doc I were seeking for excessive quantities of frozen female anatomy One dress for which Mrs Jimieson has received a of design awards can be converted to fit women from sue to sue The dress is made from very soft fabrics gathered into a circular yoke and closed down the front with a series of selfcovered buttons small loops The sleeves arc also full and gathered into a band It has a matching string lie belt which would allow a sue 7 woman appear to be wearing a rather full shlrtwalsler while the size gal could slip into the same garment without the belt and the fullness would give it the of a caftan Presto A magic dress OWN lit SIGNS Mrs opened her shop in August and carries her own designs is well as those of other minufaclurers She has her own designs made up in and exp lains how mass production clothiers will alter her design in order to use it themselves You sec this dress she of a grey beige twopiece knit The neck has a crystal pleated ruffle on Ihc band and Legions pipe dream becomes a reality club readies for 1980 Herald special Three months ago the Acton Legion Pipe Band was more pipe dream than pipe band today more than members practice every Sunday to make the dream a reality Comprised mainly of young most of whom didn know how to play when they started the band is aiming for the summer of 1900 to make its first appearance on the street The band was conceived bv Legion President John Goy and Richards a drum mmg Instructor with 30 years experience including time In the Canadian Black Watch The men then contacted John a piping instructor who plays in the Pipe Bind and the ball was rolling 10lLHNl The band unlike most Legion bands Is meant to be an entirely local band not draw PROUD PIPER John Bottom ley of Acton Instructor of the community new pipe band look second place honors In or classical bagpipe music at last summer Fergus Highland Gaines well a another second place In the North American amateur piping championships held near Ottawa last year closes with a button and loop She pulls the neck to show how the fabric is You don I need an opening to get that over your head My design didn have it But it had to be put in if they were going use their label on It Nor did my design have the ruffle was just a band neck Copying designs is com and Mrs bins at a number of times when he law has gotten involved in disputes over just who design Mrs Jamieson decision to set up a business in Acton wis a affair than a deliberated planned My son told me he had found the garden of Eden and on outside sources for players With this sort of limitation the two instructors felt they would be lucky to get IB people registered Acton strong Scot ish background proved itself and they got members Acton supported its own pipe band for many years only losing it when Instructors moved out of town Since that time about 15 years ago local pipers and drummers have had to go out of town if they wanted to play Organizers of the new band hope they can lake up where the old band left off We thought there was a lot of interest in lown for a pipe band and the registration bore us out said Bottom ley Running a class or people instead of IB meant the needed some extra help They found another piping instructor in Scott Malcolm an Acton high school student who plays in the Gueluh Pipe Band Although the pipe band was originally seen as a project for youth some adults have alrea dy joined the ranks All are progressing rapidly through the exercises and could be playing their first Right now the pipers work on small practice chanters Inst cad of full bagpipes while the drummers pound away on small rubber pads In a te corner of the Legion banquet hall It really great to see how tome of these kids ore along said Mr Richards You can just see their wrists start to go Thesamcistrueon the other side of the room The pipers are split into two groups and instructors rotate between working with individual play era and getting he players In each group play together The whole idea is that we have to play together to be a band explained Mr Male aim We might as well get started now COMMITTEE All Ihrec instructors arc part of the band committee which runs the band business and reports to the Legion on Its activities The committees main aim is fund raising It has prepared a list of all possible money making ideas which Include running a Andrew Day and running a concession stand at the Speyside Highland Gomes and the Acton Fall Fair The committee realizes that- money is the band biggest problem as it works producing a band Tor he fall fair parade Meanwhile 40 potential ye arc practicing every Sun day to give Acton Its own pipe she explains Its all rocks and water and lovely white birch trees he You ve got to come and see She fell like she was being taken to Ihe ends of the earth she laughs but once she saw Rockwood she agreed her son op and bought a home there Her son however soon wcnl to Pans and her husband is in on much of the lime and she found herself bored at home rOHMUt OWNER She stopped in to see Terry the store former and an old friend whom she has known since they were bolh young in the same part of England Tcrr he was fed up with the place and wanted to sell his store she laughs 1 I was going crazy sitting home atone with my dog and my budgie so I d buy it was thit simple and that fast Mr Gwycr 1 much fai in notion and tried to dissuade her by warning her that all Acton women ever wore was slacks and shed never make a go or such a business in such a small lown Would believe I vc ne sold a pair of slacks on their own since I opened she says I sell them as part of pant suits but never Just on their own While Acton women do shop in her store she docs not serve just Acton Her customers hove followed her and drive to her from Kingston and Missis a doctors wife flics up from Florida so that Mrs Jamieson can continue to look after her wardrobe she sells 10 15 dresses daily One of her designers was worn by the wife of an Amene an dignitary when Prince Charles was made the Prince of Wales It was a use creation trimmed with on the sleeves and tupped with a matching in graduates shades of turquoise chiffon The queen in outfit which differed only intleljpcof trim ind the of the hat The newspaper photo of the women lUlts Mrs Jamieson is no something she talks about freely allhough her retic shows how deeply they matter to her and how she guards their privacy band is the department of transport Her son a graduate of Upper Canada College is a concert pianist ind presently in Pins Her second daughter is married and taking her PhD with her husband It is her eldest child however who sparked her to concentrate her fashion train ing on designing She has palsy and spends her life in a wheelchair I When she wus little you dress a spastic child she so I beg in designing everything The love of design ng yew from that until she the gets from her seoine her customers look love whit I do It s a woman birthright to look beautiful and feminine regirdlcssof age race creed or colour I feel like an artist paintbrush My only concern is to a complete picture When I design a gown and see it filling properly on j woman then my picture is complete That my reward Don let fab hi on dictate lo you she advises women You take from fashion what suits you and you won have a closet full of you can wear a make you look beau Mrs Jamieson also nates ng for and says she will perform free the service for her custom at her Acton store as professional wedding consul lants for prices students arc beginning to realize how her Fashion background is and she has been able lo steer several local girls lo places willing to train them in modelling and oilier aspects of Phyllis Jamieson owner or Gnyna Faih Ions Main Acton modelsoneof her own creations at a fashion show In Acton High School recently Mrs has been a fashion consultant and designer for years She designed all the clothes shown at the show and carries her own line In the store the industry Toronto Channel has a film entitled Dos and Don Is for Women of All Acs in which Mrs Jamieson lakes women from studio audience and points out some fashion sense using these ladies as models The film Is kept in readiness at all times to slip into talk shows if an invited guest fails to show up and no other replacement is available One of her designs known as was chosen by Sarah Coventry jcwellry man lo be worn by Ihc model on their latest brochure Mrs Jamieson Act on women to a free fashion in the high school recent in an effort to ruse their mtcresl in fashions She wis hippy to find women inter in her efforts entertain them and has high praise for the girls who modelled for her Sarah Coventry also presented door prizes and Car Nurseries did florol irrangemenls for her show Women wage war on rising prices organize boycott of grocery stores Women Against Rising Prices WARP a group first begun in Brampton about to six weeks ago to organize weekly food boycotts has spread to Hills Ellen Napier Is spearhead ing a group In Georgetown while Barbara has been working In the Acton area Since both groups arc brand new the women have agreed to organize a meeting somen were that women from both communities can attend and to how much local support the group has You feel nllly saying you re organizing a group when you don t know how many memb ers are in Mrs Edmund son said I know all the people I talk to about it say they arc supporting the boycotts but I really have no Idea how many others are Involved too Mrs Napier said a number of men have offered support lo the group efforts ALSO INTERESTED You expect they won be BARBARA very interested since the groc cry shopping Is usually a woman s job she said but they are interested Whether they help with the shopping or whether hey just realize how much of heir paychequcs go towards food don t know Whatever it is they support our efforts to get food prices Mrs Napier said that she would even support changing the name from Women Rising Prices War Against Rising Prices if It would induce more men to support them The women in Brampton get together each week and dete rmine which Items will go on their boycott list for a few weeks The list is then spread among the groups and relcas public may support the boycott Items are put on the boycott list as a result of research done by women in various centres across the country For exam pic last week canned fish went on the list because Ottawa women found prices on that item had jumped significantly while more expensive meats were being boycotted Since there appeared o be no good reason for the price Increase they asked that It be added to the list A similar situation developed earlier with the price of tea when coffee was being boycotted and so tea was added to the list ORNGECROP They only boycott prices that rise significantly for no apparent reason Mrs Nap ier said For instance If Florida had a spell of bad weather and all the farmers lost their orange crop you know pnee of oranges Is going to rise and know the reason You can accept it But ELI FN NAPIER when something jumps 10 or 15 cents and you can see a reason it mokes you furious Mrs said that Items on the list are rotated so hat no one Item stays on too long People will put up without something for a short time she said but we all have our favourite foods and we won go without something You can do without a roast for a couple of weeks for example but If they didn t take it off the list so you con buy one by the third week you get so hungry for a good meat you Ignore he boycott and buy one an way Then the boycott would lose Its effect Thus those planning the boycott Items give major Items like meat an week off the list so thai members can stock up lo tide themselves over the boycott WARP members feel that their boycott Is working and will become Increasing ly effective as others see what results can be achieved and join them Brampton women were told by a butcher from an unnamed supermarket that the store had freezers full of high priced meats that they t get rid of because WARP was boycotting meats priced at more than a pound Someone else was told by an employee at a Brampton ab attoir that the place was unable to slaughter the usual number of cattle since the stores couldn get rid of the normal amount of meat While these are rumours that arc difficult o confirm the fact that wholesalers dropped meat prices 5c while retailers dropped it last week seems to offer the members of WARP more concrete hope that their scheme is working WARP began in Brampton about six weeks ago and branches have sprung up all over the country No one knows how many people arc supporting Ihe boycotts Ail organizers know is that they seem to have started a very widespread wellaccepted at tack on spiralling food costs WARP is boycotting these items for the week of April to IB all meats over is per pound cheese salad dressings and mayonnaise grapefruit tea can ned ravlolo and About the Hills Drivers needed Helping Hands Is again in desperate need of volunteer drivers to help transport four residents to Toronto General or Toronto Western Hospital for dialysis treatment twice a week The patients must be taken down Wednesdays and to arrive to 10 a m and will be to return on 111 ursdoya and Saturdays A generous ion allowance will be paid by Ihe hospital Interested drivers can call Barb Stephens at GARA meeting The Georgetown Area Ratepayers Association will hold its annual meeting In the Georgetown District High School tonight April Election of the group executive will be the first order of business followed by a slide presentation on Georgetown presented by Ward 3 councillor John McDonald GLT wins award Georgetown Little Theatre earned on award for excellence in front of house and program design for 1 festival entry When We Are Married The prodt also among the five for the Best Visum Presentation award and the Best Production award