Crown Point High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Crown Point, IN)

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Trend setters Unique style of clothes, hair express personality Fashions for 1986 can be summed up in one word, unique. Almost everyone tried to express his or her personality by the clothing and hairstyles they wore. Many created fashion state¬ ments th at made others sit back and take notice. During the year, fashions changed rapidly. In the fall many students fell for the latest trend of paisley with everything from shirts to Swatch watches. The most original new clothing item to arrive for girls were stirrup pants. Stirrups not only came in solid colors but in paisley, stripes, polka dots and colorful flowers. Baggy and slim-looking in appearance, these were worn with bold plaid pat¬ terns, oversized sweaters and of course the ever-pop- ular paisley print shirt. During the winter stu¬ dents kept warm with a whole new style of sweaters and jackets. Boys wore long duster-style jackets, gang¬ ster coats, and black boots with silver chains around the ankles. Another unique style for boys was the wear¬ ing of black eyeliner and mascara. Girls favored short, quilt¬ ed oversized jackets in pas¬ tel colors. Underneath the jacket, girls wore a silky looking blouse of a solid col¬ or, usually with a broach of multicolored stones clipped at the neck. The broach came back in style in almost every shape, style and color any person could wish for, shaped as cats, bells, bow ties, triangle, and circles with a variety of colored PAISLEY PRINT IS ONE of the more popular fashions this year. Ju¬ nior Jamie Kirkpatrick wears a pais¬ ley print underneath a v-neck sweat- stones. Springtime finally showed itself in fashion with the appearance of loud prints and colors. For the girls, the mini-skirts in pais¬ ley, flowers, and fruit pat¬ terns appeared everywhere. They were usually worn with shoes of either a matching print or textured solid. The Miami Vice style suit with a contrasting colored t- shirt slowly appeared throughout the school. Also, appearing was the tulip skirt, tight at the waist and around the hips but gradu¬ ally flaring out at the bot¬ tom. Similar in fashion was the tube skirt which was narrow all the way down in ribbed cotton. Fashions of 1986 allowed people to express their per¬ sonality through the versa¬ tility and variety of cloth¬ ing. THE LOOSE BLOUSY EFFECT with slim-looking slacks is the fashion al¬ most everyone is wearing. Junior Becky Belei is wearing a colored t- shirt underneath a v-neck sweater over paisley print slacks. Junior Pa¬ tricia Cook is wearing a white blouse underneath a deep v-neck sweater print, clipped at the neck is a broach of multi-colored stones.

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DRESSED FOR THE WINTER WEATHER in heavy sweaters and wool are senior Julie DePasquale and senior Noah Burczyk. Julie is wear¬ ing a beige turtleneck with a navy wool skirt while Noah is wearing a striped sweater of different shades of gray and underneath a plaid blazer and tweed trousers. SILKY LOOKING SHIRTS with matching sweater represent the con¬ temporary feminine look. Senior Anne Kammann wears a rust skirt with a flower border trim and a sweater of matching color scheme and design. THE UNIQUE HAIRSTYLES this year showed a variety of styles. Se¬ nior Dawn Burish wears her hair cut short around the ear while starting from her part her hair diagonally slants downward as it gets longer. Ju¬ nior Matt Benge wears his hair spiked on top, and junior Amy Gross wears her hair like Dawn ' s, short on one side and asymmetrically cut. 16 Fashions

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T ragedy Challenger explodes; terrorism strikes worldwide This was a year in which tragedy and celebration both played a part. In No¬ vember, President Reagan met with newly appointed Soviet Premier Mikhail Gor¬ bachev for the Geneva Sum¬ mit talks. There they dis¬ cussed future plans for arms negotiations, but no formal agreements were made. Terrorism stalked the headlines of 1986. In the Mediterranean, the Italian- cruise liner, the Achille Lauro, was hijacked by Pal¬ estinian gunmen. The cap- tors were later captured after attempting to escape on a jetliner and forced to land on the island of Crete. The leader among terrorists was Moammar Gaddafi, dic¬ tator of Libya. Libya de¬ clared a line of death span¬ ning 12-miles around its Gulf of Sidra border. This violated the international law stating a country only PRESIDENT REAGAN and the So¬ viet Premier, Mikhail Gorbachev, met for the Geneva Summit talks concerning arms negotiations. KEVIN BUTLER, Chicago Bears kicker, hugs quarterback Jim McMa¬ hon after the Bears beat the New England Patriots 46-10 in Super- bown XX. had rights to a two-mile ra¬ dius. President Reagan sent ships into this line of death which prompted Gaddafi to send order for them to be shot at. In the months that followed, several terrorist incidents occurred that were linked to Gaddafi and his followers. Finally, on April 14, 1986, the United States retaliated, bombing Libyan airbases. On September 26, 1985, a deadly earthquake devastat¬ ed Mexico. The quakes force measured 7.8 on the Richter scale and resulted in a large death toll. After 20 years of corrupt government, opposition candidate Corazon Aquino defeated Philippine presi¬ dent Marcos. The most immense trage¬ dy for the American people was the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger on January 28,1986. The loss of the space shuttle took with it seven lives, one of which was teacher Christa McAu- liffe, first teacher chosen to be shot into space. In 73 sec¬ onds a new era in space travel exploded into a terri¬ ble nightmare. In March, plummeting oil prices did both harm and good. Less expensive oil meant lower energy costs for consumers but dealt a bad blow to U.S. energy firms and debt-ridden oil producers. On the brighter side, in May people all across Amer¬ ica joined hands in the Hands Across America cam¬ paign to fight hunger in the U.S. Locally, the Bears won the superbowl for the first time ever defeating the New England Patriots in a score of 46-10. 18 News