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Section Two The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, August 28,1985 3 Easy ironing tips take wrinkles out of on-campus clothing care About a month before school starts, unmade beds, empty pizza boxes and piles of wrinkled clothes begin appearing appearing in many mothers' dreams. Sending kids away to school causes mothers to worry that their children won't take care of themselves the way Mom did. Mothers can help ease the transition to dormitory life by providing their children with some needed tools. For instance, a good iron and a few tips to make ironing easier can help prevent prevent piles of wrinkled clothes and keep kids looking smart. Here's a basic campus primer on clothing care: • Fold clothes carefully as they come out of the dryer. Straighten and smooth seams, edges and facings. That way, some things won't need ironing, and the ironing that has to be done will be easier. • Start ironing with delicate fabrics such as rayon and silk which use lower lower temperatures. Then go to woolens, cottons, and linens, which need higher temperatures. • When choosing iron temperature, always check the clothing label or tag for fiber content, and follow the recommended recommended instructions. Consider the fabric's weight and construction. For example, lightweight cotton doesn't need the same high iron temperature temperature as heavier all-cotton jeans. If there's a question about temperature, temperature, it's best not to guess. Test on a hidden seam starting with a low temperature, and gradually raise it until until you find the best one for the fabric. e Irons with special features make it nearly impossible -- even for beginners beginners -- to scorch fabrics. Black & Decker's Automatic Shut-Off iron has an electronic brain that lets the user know with a beep and a green ready light if it has heated or cooled to the desired temperature. The iron even shuts itself off if accidentally left on but unattended. • Before ironing, moisten clothes with steam or spray to help smooth out wrinkles and make sharp creases. e When ironing a shirt, do collars, cuffs and sleeves first. Then these won't wrinkle as the rest of the garment garment is ironed. • Use long, smooth gliding strokes. Move the iron lengthwise along the grain of the fabric, in one direction. • Spots and stains should be removed removed from any garment before ironing ironing or they may "set" in the garment and be harder to remove. e Iron in good light -- daylight, when possible. When you've done everything you can to help your child adjust to living living away from home, relax. For all you know, your child may come home for vacation looking unexpectedly unexpectedly unwrinklcd.f Auto sound: an equipment primer For most students who commute to school, a car sound system is nothing less than a basic necessity. How well a system meets your needs depends entirely on the eqiiip- npent. And that equipment can take a number of forms, says the Electronic Industries Association. But the functions functions it must perform are very much the same for any system, whether it's for home or car use. The sound comes from speakers. Speakers forborne systems generally come in wood or wood-like boxes ("enclosures"), designed to enhance their sound. Mobile speakers generally generally must use cavities in the car body as enclosures, although some hang-on speakers use a small enclosure. The speakers are driven by an amplifier, which may either be a separate component or be built into some other component (usually the tuner) of the system. The amplifier generally gets its signal from either a tape deck or an FM/AM tuner. (Car systems usually have both, and switch automatically between tuner and tape as cassettes are inserted or removed.) The tuner in turn, gets signals from an antenna. Those are the basics, but various extras such as "equalizers," which provide separate tone controls in each of five to nine frequency bands can also be added. The speakers usually stand alone, though some have amplifiers built into into them. Tl* antenna always stands alone. Aside from that, though, these functions have been combined in almost almost every conceivable way. Most systems, though, fall into one of five major categories. All-In-One Systems The tape deck, tuner and amplifier -- everything but the speakers and antenna --arc combined in a single unit, usually designed to fit the radio slot in a dashboard. Low-cost systems usually lake this form. Combo Systems With Separate Amplifiers As amplifiers grow more powerful, they grow too big to be part of an all- in-one package that can fit into the dashboard. Take the amplifier out of the package, and you can make it as big as you please, and place it beneath the dash, under a scat, in the trunk or elsewhere. This frees up a bit more space in the main unit for the tuner and tape deck sections, or allows the main unit to be made a little smaller to fit today's smaller cars. In-Dash Plus Under-Dash Tape deck and tuner needn't be in the same box at all. If your car already has an in-dash radio, you can add a tape deck that mounts beneath the dash. If the radio receives only AM or monophonic FM broadcasts, you can get an under-dash deck with an FM stereo tuner built in. Such under-dash units usually have more powerful amplifiers than those built into in-dash radios, which improves the sound. Under-Dash Alone If all you want is tape or tape and FM, an undcr-dasli tape unit can serve by itself. Individual Components In some car systems, each function is built as a separate component, as is more often done in home systems. Such systems don't fit into dash boards at all, but are sometimes mounted under the dash. More often, though, they find themselves in the backs of vans, or the back seats of limousines. This by no means exhausts the possibilities, possibilities, of course. Hybrids abound. All-in-one systems, for example, are frequently augmented by booster amplifiers, which connect between the systems amplifier and its speakers to increase power output. And many all- in-one units have both built-in amplifiers and preamplifier-level out- putspermitting their eventual conversion conversion to combination systems, with separate amplifiers. Some systems also arc "bi-ampli- fied," using separate amplifiers for the low-frequency and high-frequency high-frequency speakers (woofers and tweeters). The circuits which divide the frequences frequences for this may be built into the in-dash, or "head" unit, built into an amplifier, or built into a separate box of its own. Equalizers too, may be separate components or may be built into amplifiers or boosters. This diversity only exists because it's needed. There's a system to suit your needs, no matter what those needs are. The problem is finding out just what those needs are, and which system type fulfills them. Knowing the general configuration of the system you'll be buying is just the first, and easiest step. Now it's time to consider what you need from all the circuits of that system: the tuner, tape deck, amplifiers and (though they're not exactly "circuits") "circuits") speakers. ELMER'S BACK TO SCHOOL MAP DESK DOUBLE PEDESTAL 7 DRAWER $1OQOO GIRL'S WHITE DESK GOLD TRIM 4 DRAWER M79 .00 COMPUTER DESK 2 DRAWER SWIVEL UNIT FOR DISPLAY $ 249 .00 ELMER'S FURNITURE 253 Bloor St. E. at Rltson Rd., Oshawa 728-3473 Blazers are a boy's best friend g *p e i °ff ers s sm If you have to send your young man off to college or school with one item of dressy clothing, let it be a blazer. Just as young college men are getting more serious about their education and their careers, the traditional navy blue blazer is coming back into fashion. fashion. The classic styling of a blazer yields a trim, neat look and gives the man the option of dressing it up or looking more casual, depending on the occasion. The term blazer gets its name from the H.M.S. Blazer, a sailing vessel of the 1860s. The captain of that ship ordered his men to wear dark blue coats with brass buttons to give his men a snappy, dressier look. But blazers didn't become popular or acceptable acceptable wear for men until the 1920s and the 1930s. Blazers are making a comeback today because men want to be sporty, but well-dressed; the blazer fills that need for every occasion except except a very formal one. "But owning a blazer and the slacks, shirts and tics that go with it is only part of the battle for looking good," says Helmae Products Corporation Corporation Fashion Consultant Deborah Durham. "Keeping those clothes looking sharp and polished is the other half. "When men go off to school, they have to realize they become responsible responsible for taking care of their looks and, more important, their clothing. Having a nice wardrobe and keeping it in shape is not difficult, but it docs take some preparation," adds Durham. Durham. Hclmac, The Fashion Advantage™, Advantage™, has some tips on how to put together that blazer wardrobe and how to keep it looking good. The Blazer Wardrobe • Buy a good quality, all wool navy blue or black blazer, single- breasted, and with enough shoulder room for a sweater vest. Double- breasted is fashionable also. • Grey slacks are the dressy foundation foundation for the blazer look. Add a beige and/or brown pair of slacks and Fitting back-to-school footnotes the college man has a great start on a versatile, good looking wardrobe. • A Lint Pic-Up Roller handy on the desk or bureau top will keep a wool blazer shipshape. A quick roll removes the lint, dandruff and dust that wool blazers seem to attract like magnets. • Button-down oxford cloth shirts in blue or white arc a must. Backed up by stripes, plaids, even polo shirts for very casual wear. • A selection of tics should include standard widths in red and blue with stripes or dots. Good news fori students heading back to school For all those students who wish they could retain what they learned in class until final exams...they can. Not by working harder, but by working working smarter. It's a matter of using the learning process and the laws of forgetting to our advantage. Just knowing what happens and why, can help students do things to retain the information received in class for an indefinite time, certainly long enough to pass their exams. For instance, we know that, for the student, the average span of concentration concentration on a single subject is 50 minutes minutes (that's why most classes arc scheduled for 50 minutes). The continuous influx of new material material speeds up forgetting, so we can expect that, after several hours of concentration on new material, we'll forget most of what we learned during during the first hour. Study habits should be scheduled with that in mind. We know that most forgetting occurs occurs immediately after learning. On the other hand, if steps are taken to CLtiUlsia all aïJ<bï waècdi&tà I cr NO ONE KNOWS HOW TO SHOW OFF A PRETTY ANKLE LIKE... ^LLfih own ^Ladis± ^dins <zS(xoz± ( l44 fiaus (jsautifutLaatdzt i-fioEi., caiuati. andi.fi/ifiEXi at affoxdabpE fixicEi al[ in a iguIe xancjE of iizEi (incCuding U^ouGl'e or/ whit In/ S7ot 9a/f SToohuzax fashion Come see ai fini! c^/lso, come, see oui selection of hand made leathei /. 'nines: .Uptown Ladies' Fine Shoes 50 King St. E„ Bowmanville C • A sweater vest like Dan Rather wears is a great idea and can add a warm comfortable flair to a blazer. • A pair of good quality leather loafers in black with tassels is perfect for a dressy college look. Brown |>en- ny loafers or deck shoes also look good in most other circumstances. « Put Shoe Shapers™ in those expensive expensive tassel loafers. Loafers take a beating and Shoe Shapers extend their life, and keep them looking sharp, f It's back-to-school time, and for most parents, that usually means a trip to the shoe store. When shopping for children's shoes, it's important to remember that there's more to buying shoes than just choosing the latest fashion. Ruth Katz, consumer affairs specialist and author of Kinney Shoe Corporation's booklet, An Insider's Guide lo Footwear, offers some sound advice: • Be sure to look for: • Leather uppers; the more active a growing child becomes, the more important breathable leather is. e A contoured arch area: this provides provides important support. • Buckles attached to elastic gores', reinforced stitching at stress points; and scuff resistant toe taps. Check the Fit e Measure botli feet; always accommodate accommodate the larger foot and, if necessary, alter the fit of the other shoe. • Have your child wear socks that would be worn with the new shoes. • Press toe area with thumb; there should be about Vi-inch between the end of the big toe and the tip of the shoe. • Test the width of the shoe by pinching the upper material around the ball of the foot and pulling it up; there should be about 'A-inch of extra extra material. Care and Repair are Key • Keep shoes polished; this is the single most important thing you can do for maintenance. A shine protects shoes from scuffs, rain and general wear and tear. e To cover scuffed areas, use a colored, colored, enriched polish. Avoid constant use of quick-drying liquid polishes; they contain alcohol and eventually dry out leather. • Never store footwear near a heat source. • Save shoelaces by dipping frayed ends in glue. • Keep leather laces tied by sprinkling a few drops of water on the knot. • Use sandpaper on soles of new shoes to make them less slippery. • Remove salt stains by mixing equal parts of warm water and white vinegar. Dab over entire shoe and let dry; condition and polish. Even if you care for your child's shoes regularly, don't expect miracles. "Footwear won't last forever," notes Ms. Katz, "hut routine maintenance will certainly help ' you get your money's worth from your purchase," remember something the day after it's been learned, chances arc it will stick with us. We know that cramming is relearning. relearning. Realizing this, the student can prepare a more productive cram session. Reviews, timing the reviews to offset offset the curve of forgetting, consolidation consolidation of material -- these arc some of the other keys in the process used to impress the mind with the material learned and needed to retain. If done properly, the mind will retain retain the material... in some cases indefinitely. indefinitely. Knowledge of this process can serve well in school and will be a life long asset in other areas. A report published by a college studies unit details these and other factors we know about learning and forgetting. It is a step-by-step plan designed lo help students retain classwork and pass their exams. 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