Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...motorcycle styles hover in the middle price range, selling for approximately $100. `Black and Blues' rescues the more fashion-conscious client with two chic coats from Kenneth Cole's 'Reaction' line, $255 and $275 respectively. But leather isn't just for jackets anymore--a wild leopard-print zipfront leather dress hanging behind the cash register is quick to catch...
...weekly trips to New York wholesalers. (He doesn't buy clothes directly from individual shoppers, so leave those old sweaters at home.) Currently, much of the women's clothing sadly seems geared toward those with eating disorders. Even in so-called `size large,' a tiny lime-colored slip-dress ($24) barely covers the essentials. Access's velvet LBDs ($28) and silvery separates by Ceduxion ($24) share the same minimalist proportions...
Equality: Pilgrims going for the Hajj wear two unstitched white pieces of cloth, one wrapped around the waist with a belt and the other draped over the upper body. The uniformity of dress, along with other restrictions, removes from visibility the markers of wealth and class distinction. Rich and poor look the same at the Hajj, all equal in their status as pilgrims. The principle of equality is visible in real and large-scale application as the believers perform the rites together in a common dress. Images of the Hajj thus remind us all of the basic equality that supercedes...
...know why Bryan Giles wore a skirt to school. I can't even remember why I did. The point is, there shouldn't have to be a reason. Battling against those who wish to cross-dress is unproductive and senseless. It's fashionable these days to be libertarian about most social issues; there's no reason not to be libertarian about fashion...
Luckily for would-be male cross-dressers everywhere, courageous male authority figures like Rudy Giuliani have condoned transvestitism from the moral pulpit of elected office. Giuliani's appearance last March could be the watershed in the popular acceptance of male cross-dressing. That's not to say I expect to see Marty in a dress for the next Ec10 lecture (though I dare him to); rather, opposition to cross-dressing in schools and elsewhere should, and I think will, dissipate...