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...fashion that would both help and haunt him-into the 1974 film The Great Gatsby. More recently, Lauren has looked west for inspiration. His "prairie look" last fall for women, with the hem of a petticoat peeking out from under a skirt worn with a Navajo colored sweater, was fresh, simple and somewhat startling. It was also a smash, and will be repeated, with modifications, this fall...
...firmly back in first place. Says Arledge: "CBS News is now a copy of our program." But there were other reasons for the CBS recovery. One was Commentator Bill Moyers, whose earnest analyses balance Rather's brisk style. Another, according to some industry wags: Dan Rather's sweaters, which are said to have softened the anchorman's hard-driving image. "Unfortunately," says Arledge, "the sweater seems to have worked...
Clothes may make the man after all. At least, a sweater may warm up his image. CBS Anchorman Dan Rather, 50, who had struck some viewers as chilly after the avuncular Walter Cronkite, took to wearing a sleeveless, V-necked pullover on his newscasts some three months ago. Perhaps not so coincidentally, he has since reclaimed Cronkite's traditional top spot ahead of NBC and ABC. Says Rather: "God knows what would happen if you put a ring in your nose." Without going that far, Rather is prepared to stay bundled up through the summer. "If it takes wearing...
...women whose jobs permit a casual approach, can do a little vamping and pull on a pair of high-fashion Norma Kamali sweat pants; or buy something oversized from the designer boutique section; or dip into the proud father's closet and come up with some huge smothering sweater that, worn with pants and leg warmers, makes any mother-to-be look like an off-center ballerina on her way home from class...
...Renaissance look. Bill Blass also uses a weave effect on some blouses, and Ralph Lauren has put ruffles on suede in delicate peasant blouses. Says he: "Feathery-light blouses that once were made of cotton can now be done in suede. And it can mix with anything-silk, a sweater, tweeds, linen or cotton." The new leather, made ideally from the South African hair sheep, comes in starbursts of colors: fire-engine red, hot and soft pink, vivid green, fuchsia, indigo blue, yellow, apricot, jade, turquoise and purple. The thinness of the leather and the satiny texture are due mainly...