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...some fashion experts to Ralph Lauren. In magazine ads, Lauren's young line, called Ralph, features a model straddling a chair. She wears a skirt about the length of a large handkerchief, and her stockings, such as they are, reach only to her thighs. Thus is born a fad. The stockings are called thigh-highs and a lot of women are making a run on them...
Conservative French pin the blame for the massive American invasion on the French media, which seeks to appeal to a younger audience by using bits of the English language and American culture. Some hardliners want the French government to bring this new fad to a halt before American and French culture become so intertwined that they can no longer be told apart...
...designers are operating at their very best -- among the established masters, Bill Blass and Geoffrey Beene; among newcomers, Han Feng and Byron Lars. Blass made some sense out of the current fad for bright colors by working in wools that were vibrant, with pretty, harmonious dyes. He used tweeds and wool jersey with an ease and fluency that mark a seasoned tailor. Beene also favored wool jersey, which he considers "the perfect material." His outfits, which came in all lengths, had the homely virtue of actually looking like winter clothes, garments that would keep the wearer warm...
...green is Harvard? What has been done to reduce that impacts that we as an institution have on our environment? April 22, 1990, saw the twentieth anniversary of Earth Day. On that occasion, Harvard realized that environmentalism was not a fad and was, in fact, taking an important place on national and international policy agendas...
Having exercised all the various possibilities and explanations, I realize I need to find some other explanation for this daily pilgrimage of all types. This religiously democratic fervor must have some deeper basis. It must be some larger subterranean fad at work. In this spirit, I turn to a tried and tested trend. Alas, this too provides so saving grace...