Word: appareled
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...sports fashionable, wide-shouldered jackets, to his father's distress. "He would have me in the preppie look," says Vinh with disdain. Retorts Le Giau: "When I went to school we wore uniforms." Imelda Ortiz finds herself in a tug-of-war with her mother over American teens' signature apparel: tight jeans. "My mom says I look like a Solid Gold dancer and makes me take them off," complains Imelda. "She looks at the way some Anglo girls dress and says they don't have dominio propio (self- control...
...specifically ladies apparel, how bout those straw baskets that everyone has--I mean, who had the warehouse sale? There are thousands of those suckers around. And the haircuts: girls have bobs, boys' hair is cropped short and neat. It looks like a 50s movie...
...province of just a few way-out industries. Zysman, who studies the exotic fields from the outskirts of California's Silicon Valley, maintains that the frontier industries are changing the way other, more commonplace businesses are conducted. These technologies, he says, are "transforming the whole economy." Textiles and apparel making, for example, are usually considered labor-intensive, backward industries. But instead of being displaced by that technology, contends Zysman, textile manufacturing is part of the new industrial revolution. Cloth can be cut by laser beams, and looms are driven by computers programmed, ironically in some cases, to duplicate...
...tons of green apparel, to all the makers of expletive-ridden signs, to all the field hockey players with "Beat Harvard" signs taped to the seats of their warmup pants, to all the dogs with green bandanas tied around their necks, the Crimson football team sent an unmistakable message in crystal-clear body language...
...shirts, sweaters and slacks designed by Perry Ellis. Brooke Shields is fronting her own line of sportswear and highlights a kind of prefab insouciance. With all this, however, tradition will not be forsaken. "People always come back to basics," insists Hervey. "There is no more practical piece of apparel than a pair of cotton denim jeans. They give you a good, free feeling of comfort." This year Levi's will spend $36 million to promote 501s, those reliable, prototypical jeans that shrink, curl, give and finally smooth out on the body as if they were cut to order. There...