Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...airy, glassy, geometric houses have caught on with stylesetters in the film and fashion worlds, who are buying up the old originals and restoring them. And the spare, functional furniture from the '50s has been getting so popular that upscale stores featuring it have sprung up in Manhattan's trendy meat-packing district and on the equally fashion-forward La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Ikea and Crate & Barrel have begun producing knockoffs for the mass market. The taste for things '50s-ish has also seeped into fashion (haven't you noticed all those sweater sets and pleated skirts...
...Fashion has often dipped into the '50s for inspiration, but these days skirts by the likes of Hussein Chalayan, Karl Lagerfeld and Marc Jacobs are looking distinctly fuller and wider. It's now possible to wear a twin set and full pleated skirt without irony. (The poodle skirt, however, is still out of the question.) Auto designers are also beginning to use some of the hallmark motifs of the midcentury cars. Besides the fins planned for the Cadillac, the 1999 Mustang has triangular wind scoops on the side reminiscent of the 1964 model, and Ford is reintroducing the Thunderbird...
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Your article "Warming Up To Fur" attempted to portray the fur industry as making a healthy recovery [FASHION, Oct. 19]. But everyone knows that in producing a luxury fur, cruelty is inflicted on the innocent victims: leg-hold trapping, anal electrocution, neck wringing, overcrowding of cages in factory fur farms and the myriad other ways the killing occurs before the "fashion" emerges. Seeing someone in fur, I used to think that person was either ignorant of the suffering involved or insensitive to it. But today neither excuse is in fashion. GRETCHEN WYLER, President Ark Trust Inc. Encino, Calif...
...choose the slightly spooky, probably dusty New York State Armory to present a fashion show? Perhaps to throw the girlishly innocent clothes into sharp relief. Jacobs' show was suggestive of a group of tiny yet gorgeous schoolgirls who had lost their way but were bravely striding on. His palette of pale blues, grays and metallics, with a detour into a striking series of gunmetals, kept it chaste. "The drawstring must be a trend," whispered celeb guest Lauren Holly. Not to mention cap sleeves, shirring, scalloped edges and a lot of stuff a romantic six-year-old would favor, including aprons...