Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many of the more established designers around the world pick out Ralph Lauren as the designer they think of as "most American," that may be because Lauren has put his signature, and his galloping Polo logo, onto garments that had been in the national fashion vocabulary for years. From beach house to boardroom, pinstripe to roll collar to penny loafer, Lauren codified and merchandised America's dearest dreams of middle-class elegance, then brokered the fantasies back to the market that inspired them. This has nothing to do with design as practiced by Kawakubo or Miyake, but Lauren has seized...
...wrap-around drama of some Bausch & Lomb Ray-Bans, at the democratic perfection of a simple Hanes T shirt. Ideas for American clothes are sketched, smoothed over and sold on Seventh Avenue, but the real inspiration comes from all over the country: from what teenagers wear to cruise Revere Beach outside Boston or the Galleria mall in the San Fernando Valley; from the work clothes of soldiers and astronauts; from the wardrobe tricks of rock stars and artists at gallery openings. Much of what is best in American fashion--and almost all of what has had an impact...
...stylish as well as protective. Thanks to new products called Zinka and Le Zink, zinc-oxide cream is no longer available only in drab white. It now comes in hot pink, deep purple and many other shades, enabling sun worshipers to color-coordinate their noses with their beach balls and bikinis...
Cruz's case was one of bonafide culture shock. He was closed out of a social life he had no experience in. "I did not know how to skate or swim, nor had I been to a movie theater or beach...
...addition, Rosenberg says, "I'm pretty psyched to go to the beach; I've never been west of Syracuse...