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...designer has worked with them more skillfully. As an ex-dancer, she likes their freedom. But she also likes variety: "No reason not to wear pants one day, a short skirt the next, a long one the following day." In her fall collection, Luba has pants with a tunic top. "If you get too hot," she explains to customers, "go to the ladies' room, remove the pants, and you emerge in tunic and tights-perfectly presentable...
...other pain brought on by civil war in the world's largest black nation. In an open truck near Owerri, rainwater seeped into a glucose bottle attached to the stomach of a chocolate-brown corporal identifiable as "Lucky Devil" from the nickname sewn into his bloody tunic. The truck, carrying a dozen wounded, had fallen into a culvert tunneled out by retreating Biafrans. Rain also slowed the stolid march of exhausted refugees from displaced minority tribes heading south from the fighting...
...mass-market ready-to-wears, known as prét à porter-and to more pants, more boots, more chains, more turtlenecks and, of course, more transparency. For his fall collection, André Courrèges' main excitement was a white, rib-knit jump suit, with a tunic for daytime wear and a sequined pants outfit with see-through top for after dark. Not to be outdone, Yves St. Laurent turned out an even more daring evening gown, then produced for everyday a series of wide-cut pants suits just possibly ugly enough to be chic. At least Lauren...
...line of skin-colored suits embroidered with white flowers. The wearers look trim and nude -from a distance-while remaining covered and helpfully girdled. "It's sex and conservatism in one package," Miss Cole states. Another camouflage is a new version of that old favorite, the tunic, which hangs loosely to the hips and adds a touch of shadowed piquancy to the flab within...
...includes flamboyantly printed "P.J.s" (Pulitzer Jeans) and Cuban-style quayabera shirts, worn with the squared-off tails outside. Valentino, who is Jackie Kennedy's favorite Rome designer, last month moved into men's clothing. Milan's expatriate American designer, Ken Scott, is showing lounging pajamas and tunic tops for men in clinging jersey. "For my clothes," Scott admits, "a man needs a lot of guts...