Word: chicly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SoHo chic has come to Winter River. Charles and Delia Deetz are hosts of their premiere dinner party in the charming old Connecticut house they have just bought. The Deetzes' teenage daughter Lydia, who dresses like Carolyn Jones in The Addams Family, sulks in the corner. The conversation fizzes, then fizzles; the guests shift uneasily. Time for a little . . . Day-o! Day-ay-ay- o! Daylight come and me wan' go home! What? Delia has risen and, to the astonishment of all, begun singing Harry Belafonte's banana-boat hit of 30 years past. Work all night on a drink...
...final entrant, apparently, in the current surge of voyaging voyeurs, Trips is trying a different style and message. Call it discomfort chic. Published by the khaki-clothing chain Banana Republic, Trips is for the wanderlusty adventurer accustomed to sharing hotel space with all manner of wildlife. Editor in Chief and Banana Republic Founder Mel Ziegler, a former newspaper reporter, dismisses most travel writing as "dull and antiseptic" and describes his entry as the equivalent of a "bunch of friends at a dinner table swapping really good travel tales." The inaugural issue has more ads for Jeeps than jewels...
...move out of the residential houses continued into the 1970s and mirrored social trends as living off campus became chic, house officials say. Also at this time, the University decided to give graduate students the option of joining the house in hope that when these doctoral candidates became professors, they would bring their enthusiasm for the house system to other colleges...
Post-preppies hang them loose over blue jeans. Club-hopping Angelenos sport them with black sweat pants, tennis shoes and a man's oversize blazer, while budding Wall Street aces tuck them under red suspenders. Corporate CEOs never took them off. They're chic; they're hip; they're the very cutting edge of fashion. And they look great with a tan. Please welcome that old standby, and new mainstay, white shirts...
...wonderful pictures too, some of them. Movies have never been so daring as when Bergman & Co. were pushing the existential pedal to the cinematic metal. For a while, in the Viet Nam years, Hollywood directors made European-style films, but that was just one more American dabble in radical chic. Soon, with Star Wars and Animal House, Hollywood was again playing to the eternal adolescent...