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Until now. If it is chic to be pregnant, it is not necessarily chic to look like a helium-inflated polyester balloon. It is no longer necessary, either. Fashion, like Big Business generally, has had to make its own adjustments to maternity. And where fashion has not provided, fashion has...
But what's this? Zack (Michael Ontkean) seems to be cruising the gay bars, looking wistful. Is it possible that what looked like just another untrue domestic romance is going to turn into a problem picture? Not to worry. The people who made this picture are not interested in...
Designers, in fact, now put suede and leather in the same category as silk, cotton, linen and wool, calling it a "fabric" and using it flexibly. (Suede, the roughened flesh side of leather, was first used in 1884 in Sweden for gloves. The French called them gants de Suè...
Elsewhere, Lurie detects a curious connection between the two most publicized American styles, preppie and punk. In their Brooks Bros, and L.L. Bean gear, preppies favor useless buckles on loafers, buttons on Oxford-cloth collars, straps on raincoats and safety pins on kilted skirts. These fastenings strike the author as...
This message of class confusion may be overstated, but Lurie's reports from the field of feminine fashion are witty and compact. On designer accessories: "Very ugly brown plastic handbags, which, because they were boldly stamped with the letters 'LV,' . . . cost far more than similar but less...