Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Klein's jeans sales had been in a slump. Now, says Alan Millstein, editor of the Fashion Network Report, who surveyed major department stores last week, the jeans are "flying out of the stores... It's more than he paid for and more than he could have prayed...
DIED. ADELE SIMPSON, 91, fashion designer whose clients included First Ladies and Hollywood stars; in Greenwich, Connecticut. Simpson's classic, never revolutionary designs emphasized a ladylike look...
While most species of bats live in vast colonies in caves or trees, some nest in spider webs; others fashion "tents" out of leaves. In southern India, for example, the male short-nosed fruit bat spends as long as two months painstakingly chewing the veins of leaves and palm fronds until they collapse into a shelter that will house him and a harem of as many as 20 females...
Also, if any of them were good-looking, as some were, they were sure to be a topic of office conversation. Comments such as "Did you see [name] today?" or the day's skirt analyzed for "fashion concerns" were often made within earshot. Even the men who did not actively partake in these conversations did not seem to offer much in the way of meaningful conversational alternatives to the women, with many seemingly uncomfortable around the better-looking women. Again what was so unsettling about these situations was not merely that they occurred, but there were no women who could...
Cantwell's portraits of her coworkers in the magazine world are particularly powerful. Through her career we get to know the editors who ruled the fashion world, their failings, and their habits. With one line, descriptions scattered throughout, Cantwell is able to satisfy all we need to know of these women who put lipstick on before talking to a man on the phone. She tells us of her editor-in-chief, "the morning after her red-faced, old New York husband's sudden death, she came to the office and sat at her desk, a red pencil in hand. Nobody...