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Died. VERA MAXWELL, 93, fashion designer, in Rincon, Puerto Rico. From her cotton proto-jumpsuit fashioned for riveting Rosies during World War II to 1974's "Speed Suit"-a zipperless, buttonless dress that could be pulled on in seconds-Maxwell pioneered sportswear for women that was as comfortable as it...
--Taiwan -- National Assembly: Several screaming, kicking, scratching and spitting matches erupted between female members last summer. One involved accusations that a member had distracted male colleagues with short skirts and visible panties. Another, above, boiled up during a constitutional debate.
You have to worry about Little Women. As a movie, it is exotic in all the wrong ways for today's market -- all hoop-skirts, candlelight and genteel language. In Louisa May Alcott's world, heavy snowfall was a big-time special effect, sausages for breakfast made for a woozily...
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...
The depiction of Radcliffe's history had better not be too vivid, however, or it might not play in the '90s. Radcliffe was the college that let women remain second-class citizens on this campus for decades. Through the 1960s, Radcliffe women weren't allowed in Lamont Library, were forced...