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...Gone. And so are red, green, yellow, and orange. Double breasted suit? Too hip. Pantsuit? Too feminist. Nude pantyhose? Too secretarial. Loafers? Come on, boys and girls, get real. Just because you've got your resume filled to the brim, this is no time to slack off on interview apparel...
...dabblers, choose the mode of exaggerated femininity, with a focus on exaggerated female movements--the mincing walk, generous cleavage, the flaming lips (no subtle Prescriptives regimen here), the coquettish, come-hither glances (my God, do women still give come-hither glances?)--and a seemingly inescapable attraction to low-rent apparel from Victoria's Secret and Frederick's of Hollywood, clothing choices which reveal more than mere body parts...
...Even at the better than 200 Trekkie conventions held each year, the clientele is more likely to be middle- ! aged couples with kids in tow than computer geeks sporting Vulcan ears. "In the early days, everyone had a shirt and a costume," says Mary Warren, who was selling Trek apparel at a recent convention in Tucson, Arizona. "Now you get all these normal people in here." Among the 2,000 who attended was Elaine Koste, who came with her husband David and five-year-old daughter Karessa. "I use Star Trek as a tool to educate my daughter," said Koste...
Early in the debate, Romney, a venture capitalist from Belmont, charged that Mart Properties, a firm owned by the Kennedy family that operates the Chicago Merchandise and Apparel Marts, does not offer part-time employees health care insurance...
...remarkable thing about the customers who filed in and out of Allman's Fashion Discount, a small Miami apparel shop, was that they never bought any clothes. Instead, say the police, they flocked to 17 cellular phones at the back of the store to call family and friends in Central and South America for just 50 cents a minute -- less than half the nighttime rate for standard phones. Even at that low price the shop's owners, who had rigged their phones to bill the calls to other people's numbers, managed to rake...