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...helmet's role as a sign of authority was backed up by other samurai artifacts: body armor, which turned its wearer into a bizarrely plated red lobster, and, of course, the weapons, the long sword known as a katana and the shorter wakizashi, together with their elaborate hilts, scabbards and other fittings, to which a large body of lore and connoisseurship attached. The figure who most vividly expressed the relation between culture and the samurai ethos remained a legend long after his death. He was Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645), who wrote a famous text on swordplay (A Book of Five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Style Was Key | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...different from one another as Tom Ford, Helmut Lang, Miuccia Prada, Jil Sander and Donatella Versace, one sees that many of their strategies echo what Chanel once did. The way, 75 years ago, she mixed up the vocabulary of male and female clothes and created fashion that offered the wearer a feeling of hidden luxury rather than ostentation are just two examples of how her taste and sense of style overlap with today's fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Designer COCO CHANEL | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

Every child under five receives a plastic bracelet, which entitles the wearer to a protein biscuit and a bowl of gruel. The bands are coded; blue for severely malnourished; red for those on the verge of death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1989-1998 Transformation | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...personally encounter the wrath of both camps as I am a proud wearer of both boxers and briefs. I am not wishy-washy, but I simply enjoy variety and I understand that each type of underwear serves its purpose. I do not ask every man to take my approach, but I do ask everyone to understand why someone might logically choose to wear a different type of underwear. I plead for tolerance. No purpose is served by putting down other people's underwear or claiming that there is some divine underwear preference...

Author: By James ALLEN Johnson, | Title: Drop 'Em | 12/3/1997 | See Source »

...COVERED BY ANY H.M.O. Snake oil salesmen, beware. The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices in Minneapolis features 200 years of scientific chicanery, including a male "corset'' that generated a small shock to enhance the wearer's love life and the Nemectron, right, a gadget that supposedly overcame age's ravages, cured acne and lifted fallen arches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 17, 1997 | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

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