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CONTEXT Longer hemlines are showing up in fashion designs for spring 2008, indicating that U.S. economic woes could worsen. Nicole Miller and Josh Goot had hemlines at the knee, and Generra and Miss Sixty's hems were mostly midthigh. The fashion houses could just be foreshadowing what will come next year: by 2008, 2 million people could foreclose on their homes as a result of the subprime-mortgage crisis...
USAGE Though it is dismissed by both the economic and the fashion worlds, the hemline theory has proved correct at times. Hemlines were short in the Roaring Twenties but fell before the 1929 stock-market crash. In the '60s miniskirts were en vogue, and stocks rose. In the summer of 2006, designers showed short hems for spring, and in May the Standard & Poor's 500 index hit a seven-year high...
...were joined in a common cause. Today there is a void. We need to resurrect a sense of obligation to our country besides taxes and voting. One way to help accomplish this would be to institute a draft. Everyone should be obligated to serve the country in some fashion. Maybe then we would stop identifying ourselves with narrow labels such as liberal, conservative, Democrat and Republican and move toward what Patrick Henry expressed in saying "I am not a Virginian, but an American...
Despite their beauty, the photos and the inference that they epitomize American style seem jarringly anachronistic. At a time when fashion has become global thanks to the Internet and the access it provides to ideas, resources and products, American style is becoming increasingly difficult to define. At New York City's Fashion Week there were 259 designers of different nationalities--including Chinese, Thai, Brazilian, Japanese and Turkish--showing their spring 2008 collections...
...Fashion is no longer regional, and the notion of American sportswear is no longer valid, nor does it look current," says Robert Burke, a luxury consultant. "I've seen shows this week that could easily have taken place in Paris or Milan." More and more, it is the itinerant lifestyles of multinational designers--many of whom frequently travel around the world to visit factories, stores and suppliers--and the global reach of the Internet that inspire the clothes they send down the runway...