Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...honors Geology concentrator, Johnson has had her hands full with her academic work and her commitment to lacrosse. "There were times trying to fit it in around a science major, especially with a thesis this year," Johnson says. "I only stuck it out because I enjoy the team so much...
This doesn't mean that Harvard, or any other university, imposes an ideology from above. Instead, we create a kind of intellectual pressure cooker--a "peer pressure cooker." Thoughts that don't "fit" are treated with laughter or condescension If you've never been ridiculed by your friends before, try talking about reincarnation in the Winthrop House dining hall or saying that you don't think The New York Times is an impartial newspaper. Then you will discover that the good old knowing smile is the most affective way to kill an idea. It also hurts your feelings...
...still don't believe in the power of condescension, consider the case of many young urban professionals. They have been tagged with a nickname--now young people who live in the city are forced to apologize because they fit into a category. 1985 is the year of the Bashful Yuppie. People will do anything to avoid being called a yuppie. Some people even make a living by saying bad things about yuppies. But they're just scared like everyone else...
That was back in 1936, when the shirts sold for about a buck. Now the same % number might go for several hundred times the original price. Now high-fashion designers from Italy, Japan and France are adapting and transmuting the fit, dash and splashy spirit of Hawaiian shirts into a bedazzling array of prints. Now up-to-the-minute fashion emporiums like Barneys in New York City import racks full of new Hawaiians, while Bill Gold, co-owner of a vintage clothing store called Repeat Performance in Los Angeles, will go on buying trips to the Midwest to ferret...
...sexy Gottex style comes from the use of a high proportion (20%) of Lycra in the suits, which gives them a tighter fit. Says Leah Gottlieb: "I make clothes for people who are comfortable in their bodies." While the company sells its products in Israel in a wide range of outlets, in the U.S. it caters to the chic crowd in such stores as Neiman-Marcus, I Magnin and Saks Fifth Avenue. Says Kal Ruttenstein, Bloomingdale's vice president of fashion: "They're very innovative and take trends from ready-to-wear collections to their swimwear line...