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...that’s sprinkled with updates on 10-year-old Sammy’s Little League triumphs. Luckily, Faust has a good ear for picking just the right words. One teenager, “Nannie Haskins of Tennessee,” takes offense when told her black mourning dress becomes her. “‘Becomes me fiddlestick,’” Faust quotes Haskins as writing. “‘What do I care whether it becomes me or not?’” Haskins’ anger seethes...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FAUST VIVIFIES DEATH WITH WIT AND HUMOR | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...wearing the loosest suit imaginable. I wonder if that is what Barack Obama is going for. His jackets are gigantic. His pants flap in the wind. I realize he is skinny and has more important things on his mind or whatever, but considering that Michelle Obama is the best dressed at any of these functions, she probably understands the value of good tailoring. I don’t really understand why she isn’t sharing that knowledge with her husband. Recomendation: Go to Italy. By the time I left Italy, I was wearing hot pink spandex rompers...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: My Primary Concern: Fashion | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

Befitting a visit to the City on a Hill, Hilton wore a dress suggesting slutty Puritan—a short black number with a white Peter Pan collar and black tights...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno and Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: One Night With Paris: Socialite Parties with Spee Boys and ’Poonsters | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...even some of the best-connected Harvard socialites were left to wait among townies with gelled hair and guys with ominously matching neck tattoos before they ran a gauntlet of bouncers who guffawed as they confiscated fake IDs and snubbed attendees for dress-code violations...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno and Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: One Night With Paris: Socialite Parties with Spee Boys and ’Poonsters | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...doorman barred an erstwhile partygoer for wearing sneakers—specifically prohibited by the club’s dress code—although he protested that those sneakers were advertised as club-friendly. The bouncer offered to allow him into the club in exchange for a $500 bribe; the sneaker-wearer declined...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno and Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: One Night With Paris: Socialite Parties with Spee Boys and ’Poonsters | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

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