Word: denim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writes the rules of the upmarket game. This season, boutiques are full of dressy clothes in bright colors -- limes and lemons, oranges and magentas. Nothing new there. But wait -- the surprise element is that the costumes are made of that old standby of working clothes and off-duty wear, denim. A humble cotton twill, typically a weave of indigo and white, it has always meant durability and comfort. Now it also means class...
...would do anything but blue jeans in denim," designer Rebecca Moses says cheekily, "including very ladylike dresses and jackets that are embroidered and covered with rhinestones." Zang Toi, a Malaysian who is Seventh Avenue's latest find, is looking for a little shock value too. "I had to do something completely different," he says. "I went with bright red and shocking-pink denim, with metallic gold stitching." One of his best sellers is a sexy little bustier dress in bold colors. His next line includes a two-layered frolic: a chiffon pleated skirt over a pink denim sheath...
...history of a network of relations among us. Those have been unpleasant as well as pleasant, but unhappy memories too can be a source of unity. We have the Constitution and Bill of Rights. We have a future in common, which means a great deal. And we have denim jeans. That's a shared loyalty, from the Indians to the yuppies. As for the teaching of history, you have a choice for your children. You can tell them the truth about their country's past, favorable and unfavorable. Or you can indulge a fantasy belonging to the white male minority...
...secret: trendy merchandise is constantly turned over, while employees are handed weekly bonuses to help push it out the door. The chain's concept is "multigenerational," which in plain Valleyspeak means that gum- snapping, Walkman-toting ingenues and their miniskirted moms can sport the same fashions, from flowered denim shorts to psychedelic bikinis. "We don't just ask our customers what they want," points out Chilvers. "We spend a tremendous amount of time in the malls, in our competitors' stores. I hang around and watch what they buy, what they...
About an hour after the polls had closed, one angry supporter marched up to the press risers, where the television networks and newspapers had set up their equipment. He wore a hat and a denim jacket covered with pins and buttons...