Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lulu, a self-proclaimed "personality" from the free-bimonthly rag Stuff at Night, emceed the evening. Sporting a form-fitting black dress with glittering green styrofoam martini olives in her hair, she announced in her introduction, "My name is Lulu, not olive head...
...ELEGANT AND ECOLOGICAL Japanese designer Unsetsu Furukawa knows eco-chic. This dress, created in rattan, a solid but flexible Asian cane that can be grown without chemicals, is typical of the couturier's use of natural materials. Furukawa's models also show off fashions woven out of fabric made from recycled plastic bottles...
Unlike many businesses that "window dress," as Walker puts it, their annual reports with environmental mission statements, he's been willing to take a hit on the bottom line, if necessary. In the mid-'80s, when Greenpeace was protesting Norwegian whaling, he canceled a huge prawn contract with Norway at considerable cost, and has done no more business with the country...
...what will the new boys learn? Krok history, to be sure, and the proper way to snap, to dress and to travel. They will learn how to sing ballads in Krok style and learn how to dance some of the finest moves of the 1920s with fellow "big galloofs." They will learn new heights of preppiness, hopping taxis to get to whatever downtown big-shot wants them, and how to tie a bow-tie without a mirror. Surely they will learn how to guzzle the Dark and Stormy, the drink of choice for the Kroks when they visit Bermuda, which...
...also couldn't see much. Which was good, because my mom wore a backless dress. Every other bride wears bows and bustles and basically a 3-to-1 ratio of fabric-to-woman, but my mom was bent on destroying my theory that this was one of those nursing home-companion marriages. I realized after seeing all that exposed flesh that there was no way Pamela Anderson's kids would grow...