Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such as that one. There's always that scrawny kid in a oversized uniform, asking me if I "need glasses." There's always that balding coach in a tank-top and Bermuda shorts, telling me I "had no angle." And there's always that prim mother in a sun dress, wondering why I won't just "let the kids play ball." Sometimes there's even a little sister with a blue popsicle tongue, declaring that I "suck...
...rush to dress the stars was more frantic than ever, to the point where Escada made fabric especially to match nominee Gloria Stuart's eyes. But most celebs played it safe, which made ROBIN WILLIAMS' suit--he quipped that it came from "the Giorgio Armani Amish collection"--look all the more stylish. ROD STEIGER went for the minimalist T shirt and jewelry look, apparently unaware that this works only on people with near perfect bodies, like MINNIE DRIVER, who wore a "take that, Matt Damon" Halston. MADONNA mixed designers, but oops, they didn't match...
Still, I'm working hard to keep an open mind, even after I get a call on Wednesday afternoon telling me about the clubs dress code. And, at 2:00 on Thursday (wearing my Bar Mitzvah best), I meet Jocelyn Simpson, the institution's surprisingly young and upbeat vice president, in the club's midtown lobby...
When she appeared on 60 Minutes in all her high-cheekboned, Virginia gentry poise, Kathleen Willey looked like a woman whose most egregious lie might have been a fib about her dress size. But whether or not the former White House volunteer was telling the truth about her encounter with Bill Clinton, it seems that she has not been above baroque acts of deception...
...customers, who are young and male, typically buy 10 to 15 pairs of athletic shoes each year. It's about style, and kids were seeing less of it in Nike and more of it in the so-called brown-shoe category, which broadly describes anything that isn't a dress shoe and isn't an athletic shoe. Says Geoff Hollister, who heads Nike's grass-roots running program: "We were just filling the pipeline. You've got to come up with great stuff all the time. You miss just one season, and you can flatten out just that quickly." Nike...