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...flag of the confederacy--once a badge of honor--has become a badge of hate. In North Carolina, school officials are facing a new form of civil disobedience. Junior high and high school students are pinning the flag to their apparel, much to the alarm of school administrators who fear the flag will increase racial tensions. Students who refuse to remove the flag are being kicked out of Carolina classrooms...
...powerful, and (by extension) of my friends. I can see no reason why they should be forced to hide the light of their essentials, or rather the essential light of their well-deserved physical and intellectual privilege, under a bushel, under a shroud of mediocre, Big Government-imposed apparel...
Other big-is-beautiful outlets are drawing an equally enthusiastic response. Lane Bryant, the first U.S. chain to specialize in large sizes for women, has undergone a startling transformation since it was acquired in 1982 by the Limited, the Columbus-based women's apparel conglomerate (1986 net sales: $3.1 billion). The 87-year-old Lane Bryant has abandoned its self- admitted former image as a purveyor of shapeless smocks to focus on younger customers who are interested in big-scale style. The new formula is working. The number of Lane Bryant stores has tripled so far, from...
...says Carole Shaw, editor in chief of BBW: Big Beautiful Woman, a glossy, color fashion bimonthly for larger women, the apparel industry has changed considerably from its thin old days. Then the belief was, as Shaw puts it, that "as you got fat, you got poor." Now the feeling is that nothing fosters growth -- and profits -- like a rich diet...
...these are not garments for real life. Couture means made-to-order apparel, requiring several fittings and carrying astronomical price tags. Dresses for daytime run about $2,500 and for evening can cost as much as $33,500. Couture must have an extreme element. Or, as Lacroix puts it, "I am very sure that haute couture should be fun, foolish, almost unwearable. We are like a beautiful Christmas window in a store. We have to make dreams...