Word: uniformity
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...first time in three years, an Olympic gold medalist that does not wear a Crimson uniform will grace Harvard’s home ice. Tonight, Piper suits up for No. 4 Dartmouth in her first career meeting against the No. 1 Crimson...
...lobby of the U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Mass., a mannequin models timeless military fashion: black beret, battle-dress uniform and lace-up boots. But elsewhere within the 50-year-old cinder-block buildings, plans are afoot to clothe the future warrior--and perhaps us--in the stuff of science fiction...
...were about uniform dressing, and the decisions the consumer was making were very much brand oriented," says Jaqui Lividini, senior vice president for fashion at Saks Fifth Avenue. "When we turned the millennium, the whole fashion vocabulary changed so radically. Consumers wanted to look different; it became all about individuality. Now she wants to be the first one on the block to discover a new label...
When Christiane Celle, the French owner of a boutique called Calypso on St. Bart's in the French West Indies, migrated north to New York's Nolita neighborhood in 1994, her bright and breezy peasant blouses ushered in a casual new uniform for skinny models, stylists, socialites and starlets. Paired with low-slung jeans and crocheted hip belts, the bohemian look seemed to symbolize liberation from the tyranny of all Gucci or Prada all the time. Soon designers like Tom Ford caught the bohemian bug, and a striking facsimile of the Calypso peasant blouse turned up on Vogue's September...
Like its cousin the sneaker, the tracksuit came into the fashion mainstream via the street, through hip-hop and rave culture. The sweat suit became a B-boy uniform partly because disco gear did not lend itself to the gymnastics of break dancing. Another influence: music legends like Bob Marley, who adopted sweats as a uniform (and may have been drawing on the much iconized image of tracksuit-clad John Carlos and Tommie Smith giving black-power salutes at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics...