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...does have psychological power. A man places the thing just on top of his brain, and the one takes emanations from the other. The ancient Egyptians would go to parties in an ornamental cone of perfumed wax. The wax would melt down onto the wearer as the party heated up. The hat responded to the brain's temperature. A hat can be revealing, intimate. It can also be dangerous: no other article of clothing has the potential to make a man look so ridiculous. There is the terror of the whisper: Why does he wear that silly little...
...band of teen-agers ambled down the avenue toward the pizza parlor in Wrangler jeans, T shirts inscribed with U.S. ARMY and Adidas sneakers. Some exhibited the glazed stare and the jerky arm-and-leg movements that are the telltale signs of a Walkman wearer. Inevitably, a few hard-eyed, Camel-smoking punk rockers slipped into the crowd, their side-cropped hair adorned with spikes on top, their black leather pants punctured by safety pins...
...prehistoric footprints to modern mysteries. "There are 46 points of measurement and 120 points to examine for shape," she says. "I have not yet found even so-called identical twins with absolutely identical foot prints." She can identify barefoot prints as well as match a shoe to its wearer. Says Robbins: "If you'll check your shoes, you can see the marks for your toes...
...longer necessary, either. Fashion, like Big Business generally, has had to make its own adjustments to maternity. And where fashion has not provided, fashion has been ignored. The racks still hold their share of flapping, color-blind muumuus that-depending on the relative age and condition of the wearer-proclaim either an imminent arrival, an imperative diet or a Tupperware cookout after sundown. Increasingly, though, women are working at their careers until very near delivery, and they need clothes to get the job done. "It seems as if every female lawyer in Washington was pregnant last year," says Billie Fischer...
...side Dampfboot, the tinsmith of the gods, and bids him make for her a tarnhelm or invisible cap which will enable her to talk to people without their understanding a word she says. For a dollar and a half extra, Dampfboot throws in a magic ring which renders its wearer insensible...