Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps I'm being too harsh. After all, today's fashion does lean towards conformity. Gap does sound strangely fascist in their ads that chant "everyone in cords." But when I brought the topic up with my friends, they not only agreed with me, they added to my list of complaints. "Look at how they depict women!" my roommate intoned. Indeed, to the dismay of our Harvard rugby team, the Abercrombie girls were ignominiously relegated to the sidelines and depicted as screaming rugby fans, rather than players. In the boxing spread, the girls were shown having their gloves tied...
...course, retail stores are allowed to appeal to a certain market base. If Abercrombie wanted to appeal to a largely white audience, that's fine. There are plenty of fashion labels that target a specific ethnicity--Fubu for African-Americans and Pinoy-Wear for Filipino-Americans to name a few. But these designers make it clear that they are appealing to a certain group within the nation. Abercrombie tricks you into thinking that their ads represent all of America. Their troupe of Aryan models even travel to England to prove it. For as we all know, "the only...
...packaged into a reader-friendly magazine/catalogue complete with a "parental-consent-suggested" sticker on the cover. You buy into a set of specific social criteria that few people, possibly including yourself, can satisfy. You choose to buy into an organization that chose to carve out its niche in the fashion world by excluding rather than diversifying...
Harvard (2-0, 1-0 Ivy) showed flashes of its doggedness last week, when it trailed Columbia 7-0 after the Lions marched down the field in impressive fashion on their first series. On its next possession, the Crimson came away without points after first-and-goal at the Columbia one, throwing an interception in the end zone. Instead of letting the game get out of hand as it did in '98, when Harvard lost 24-0, the Crimson got an interception the next play, scored, and ran away...
...worst game on Sunday: Carolina vs. Cincinnati, two teams going nowhere and in a leisurely fashion. Both are equally bad, which means we shall fall back on the timeless advice of Mr. Ogden Nash: "If called by a Panther, don't Anther." Fair enough; take the Bengals and seven points...