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What are ruffian fashions? "It's undoubtedly clear that once students arrive at Harvard they appear handsome and well-dressed, but they soon disappear into the blue denim world of jeans," Epps says. "I would welcome banning that and return to the coat and tie rule at dinner...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Wear Thy Cloake, and Cut Thy Hair Go Ye Not to Harvard Square | 4/27/1985 | See Source »

...springs and wires of Hauptman's plot are so obvious that the set deserves some telegraph lines in the background. It seems as though the play was plotted first, with characters added as an afterthought. A case in point: Cherry Jones's first appearance as Jody Bobby's blue denim romantic obsession is very funny she's a biker's moll with a nuclear war phobia and a vearning for a little TECC. when sheappears next, she has undergone a complete metamore phosis from a lizzy devil-may-care funster to a kind but money-grubbing waitress. Thematically, Bobby offer...

Author: By Cvrus M. Sanat, | Title: Bust Town | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...commercial expedient of working both sides of that same street. Thirty percent of Lee's line is now fashion jeans, which feature snappy colors and snazzy fabrics. Levi's, keeping its "older cohort" in mind, will turn out stuff specifically for them: not, as might be expected, denim editions of Roman soldier gear, but a line of 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashions: Beyond the Blues Horizon | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

...stepped up to the monument commemorating their nation's most venerated martyr. Then Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra and Interior Minister Tomás Borge Martínez laid a single wreath on the tomb of Revolutionary Hero Carlos Fonseca Amador. Two dozen grammar school students, clad in denim shifts or designer jeans, shook their fists and cried, "The Yanquis will die!" before breaking into bashful giggles as adults smiled their approval. Finally, a high school marching band tramped loudly up to the monument, throwing a gaggle of preschoolers into disarray. As some toddlers cringed, while others sucked their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua: Twisting Arms | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

...children living in the Houses now, from Jonathan Flick in sweats, with his keys on a string around his neck, looking like any other student playing on the Quad, to Jessica Dowling in purple tights and a denim skirt, seem more mature than other children their age. The younger ones are unusually chatty, but without exception, the children their age. The younger ones are unusually chatty, but without exception, the children come across as very bright and self-sufficient...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: At Home, At School Children in the Houses | 10/15/1983 | See Source »

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