Word: denims
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...Smokey Joe?s Cafe" was the first of what Leiber called "radio playlets": menacing narratives in blues settings. "Riot in Cell Block #9" (later speeded up and jollied up for Elvis as "Jailhouse Rock"); "Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots" (about a moto-madman who "hit a screamin? diesel that was California-bound"); and "Framed" (in which the narrator is picked up by cops, fingered by stool pigeon, railroaded by prosecuting attorney). Lumpen tragicomedies, they had an implicit warning for their black listeners: that life was unfair to the underclass. As Leiber says in the "What?d I Say" book...
...cramped and messy. The austere space communicates antifashion; there is nothing cool about the spartanic sloppiness. So why are hordes of ultra-trendy young girls lining up behind a velvet rope, eager to enter a shop whose untidy stacks of faded T shirts and cubbyholes stuffed with dark denim jeans remind one of little more than a misplaced garage sale? Here's a clue: amid the jumble of voices filling the shop as the girls paw excitedly through the clothes, one word can be heard again and again: kawaii...
...small, round pins that reign again on the streets of fashion-conscious England and Holland. But no country has embraced the retro buttons?and their message of '80s-style youthful exuberance?as completely as Japan. Tokyoites have flocked to purchase kanbacchi, sporting their own distinctive anthems on their identical denim jacket lapels. Wait till they rediscover thin, leather neck ties...
SEEN ON THE STREET The Anti-Baguette It was only a matter of time before the baguette - the sweet little purse that came covered in jewels or made of fur, denim or cashmere and hung beneath the armpits of the world's most fashionable women - had to die. After all, they were allowed to live much longer than the laws of fashion usually allow. More than a season? Quelle horreur! Planned obsolescence is all well and good until something so perfect arrives on the scene - think of the pashmina. But now, the baguette's sell-by date has come...
...matter where one may fall on the style barometer, odds are there's a pair of jeans lurking in most everyone's closet. But for the trendy, getting the right brand, color, length and width is a science that requires precision. For the last few years, the mode in denim was dark - so dark that fashionistas were having their jeans dry-cleaned, lest they fade. But no more. Distressed denim is now the stylish option. So get out your oldest pair, chop off the hems, pin up the holes and throw on a thousand-dollar coat. Violà! The newest...