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Fashion is painful. Women suffer pinching, scratching, binding, twisting in the name of chic. Push-up bras give you the lush bosom of the '90s, but the underwire cuts into your rib cage. Panty hose are hot and, frankly, sweaty. High heels give your hips an alluring tilt, but after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Style Ode to a Tyrannical Muse (or Why I Love and Hate Fashion) | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

I have learned from experience to say no to fashion. We're stuck with bras until a kinder form of support comes along. I liked long skirts because I could wear knee-high stockings underneath. And I simply refuse to wear hose in summer. So what if the oracles say...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Style Ode to a Tyrannical Muse (or Why I Love and Hate Fashion) | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

But however hardened I've become, I succumb to fashion's lure. I swore I wouldn't wear short skirts again: I have photos from the last age of miniskirts; I remember trying to bend and sit without total exposure, and I remember how cold it was. And yet, as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Style Ode to a Tyrannical Muse (or Why I Love and Hate Fashion) | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

In San Francisco's Marina district, where high-priced homes suffered heavy damage because many had been built on unstable landfills, low-rise apartment buildings still stand empty behind temporary scaffolding, awaiting new, reinforced foundations. The city's double-deck Embarcadero Freeway, which skirts the waterfront, remains closed. The board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Digging Out, Looking Back | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

Elizabeth, along with scores of her classmates--the boys dressed in navy blue pants and light blue shirts, the girls wearing green, blue and yellow plaid skirts and gold shirts--had just filed out of St. Joseph's School, a local parochial school in the heart of New Kids country...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Local Students Sound Off on New Kids | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

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