Word: cosmeticized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A nip here, a tuck there, and the face you have at 40 is no longer the face you deserve but the face you can afford. In the past five years, thanks to new surgical wizardry, media hype and the laws of gravity exerting their inevitable effect on baby boomers...
According to the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, the number of men seeking cosmetic correction has increased 35% in the past two years. They often cite professional image and job marketability as the reasons for smoothing creases or trimming jowls. Explains Dr. Melvyn Dinner, director of the Center...
Finally the wraps are off. The "21" Club, New York City's legendary oasis for high-rolling power brokers and celebrity watchers, opened its famed iron gates after a four-month face-lift, a reported $8 million exercise in cosmetic surgery that included the premises, the food and the menu...
What's fashionable and formfitting on the beach this year? Answer: the rubber look. Robin Piccone, a California designer, has set off a sizzling fashion wave with bathing suits made of neoprene, the synthetic rubber from which scuba-diving wet suits are made. The material is both cool -- air circulates...
If the summer promises lissome beauties basking in appreciative male glances, it will also deliver the "fashion victims," as Women's Wear Daily calls those socialites who swallow the season's fashion feed regardless of what flatters them. "Some women who buy miniskirts surprise me," says Sheila Shahraies, a saleswoman...