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...main characters are joined by a large chorus of fedora-crowned men and fishnet-clad women. The singing ability of the cast members varies considerably, and often their harmonic attempts are extremely shaky, but the enthusiasm of the cast is uniformly unbounded...
...what garb defines this sassy salmagundi of decades, this wham, glam, thank you ma'am era? Get one of those NEW kneelength skirts, if you're too proud to snitch one out of your mother's closet. Pull on the tights of a Varga girl--How's that for fishnet worth? A tuxedo jacket--can you say Marlene Dietrich? (I can't.) Skinny belts are in. If not you, why not your belt...
According to the dictums issued by fashion magazines earlier this fall, the look of the season was "a new glamour," but it might just as easily have been described as call-girl chic. Women were supposed to stride around in stiletto heels, fishnet stockings and microminis -- some of which Vogue featured in colorful versions of rubber and polyvinyl chloride. The same style dominated the spring collections shown in Paris and Milan last month. There were front-slit short skirts from Karl Lagerfeld, gold-mesh biker shorts from Gianfranco Ferre and rhinestone-studded hot pants from the team of Dolce & Gabbana...
...Wednesday afternoon, two women in overalls walk into a little Central Square shop and ask for Joe, the on-premises body-piercer. Another woman, who appears to be one of Joe's regular customers, purchases a pair of fishnet stockings. A portly gentleman in a parka and workboots treats himself to a smashing new set of riding crops, which the cashier carefully wraps in black tissue paper...
...social standards of the public high school have come to dominate Harvard rather than the prep school," he says. "When I was an undergraduate, everybody wore Oxford shirts and socks as opposed to baseball caps and fishnet underwear...