Word: graying
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...younger audience. Fashion editor Katie Hatch's frequently innovative projects, from a swirling microsuede skirt to lace appliqués on a plain, white button-down shirt, are featured in each issue. Stewart calls Hatch over and asks her to show off what she's wearing--a dove gray dress with delicate embroidery that she made in a day. "Many of the staffers at Blueprint make their own clothes--beautiful things," Stewart says proudly. "I think sewing is such an important thing to know and especially to teach kids." She adds, without a hint of irony, "It's important...
Field representatives did all they could to provide information and spark interest. The English Department handed out free copies of Shakespearean works, while members of the History Department sported matching blue and gray shirts...
...gorgeous face of a dark-haired woman appears with--yikes!--all her wrinkles in living color. The camera pulls back, and-- double yikes!--she's naked. Next, a grinning full-figured woman with silver-streaked hair. Then comes an age-spotted shoulder. Finally, a long-legged beauty with cropped gray hair and--egads!--a lined neck and a furrowed brow poses in the buff, save for a pair of dangling earrings and a cuff bracelet...
Still, Dove's approach could add momentum to a subtle backlash against our deep-seated fear of aging. The clothing retailer Chico's, for example, uses silver-haired models in its ads. W, the fashion-world bible, recently called women who let their tresses go gray "silver foxes." Even if Dove's new products fail in the marketplace, the company's Pro Age campaign sends women a powerful message. "We're seeing a real shift in how people are approaching beauty," says Nancy Etcoff, a Harvard Medical School psychologist, the author of Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty...
...head off mutinous thoughts. At the climax, he offered to read a letter from a Congressman who promised better things. He began, paused, then took out a pair of glasses. "Gentlemen," he said, "you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray but almost blind in the service of my country." Exeunt omnes. End of the mutiny...