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...American flag is not only a burning issue these days but also a hot fashion statement. Designers are slapping Old Glory on everything from barrettes to bikinis. After his $300 stars-and-stripes sweater sold out last fall, Ralph Lauren created three-spangled swimsuits that are moving briskly at up to $72. Saks Fifth Avenue's New Glory shirt ($57.50) sold out just in time for the Fourth of July. The shirt's success might have surprised Abbie Hoffman. The late yippie was once charged with flag desecration for wearing a shirt like Saks' best seller...
...September, but he's wearing the same woolen sweater that he had on last February. The garment has gotten shabbier since then, but its owner has gotten no closer to finishing his dissertation...
...that Harvard men's hockey coach Bill Cleary '56 has been appointed to the post of athletic director, will he trade in the flea-bitten red sweater he wears each game for an administrator's three-piece suit? That may be the biggest question surrounding the transition from Jack Reardon '60 to Cleary at the athletic department...
Cleary should make decisions based on the philosophy he has inherited from Reardon, a philosophy of broad participation and an emphasis on academics and amatuerism rather than athletics and professionalism...if Cleary's sweater does have to go, his commitment to broad-based participation rather than big headline sports shouldn't go with...
...says a salesclerk. One reason for the popularity of the fashion is economic. As Christian Lacroix, whose palette is wild and whose prices are hair-raising, points out, "This fashion comes from the street, where young people create their own style." Tights and body stockings, topped with a big sweater or jacket, can be a cheap way to dress when a label like Lacroix's isn't attached. The average Danskin tights in nylon or Lycra blends range in price from $10 to about $13. At Barneys New York, the house line costs from $5 to $16, with designer labels...