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...promises to be this spring's hot number for teens and tots: a foam-padded T shirt that instantly transforms the wearer into an incredible hulk. Already, 40,000 of the Power-Ts (at a hefty $19.95 each) have been snapped up for children eager to flaunt fake pecs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Getting an F For Flabby | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...photographed, firmly resists intimations of Japanese influence. When he remarks, however, that "my clothes have no shape when they're on the hanger, but they take on shape when they're worn," there are distinct echoes of the Eastern precept that the shape of a garment comes from the wearer's body and is not imposed upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Color of New Blood | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...begin with, the clubs encouraged obnoxious behavior. During cocktails, a club member suggested that I meet as many members as possible. Semicircles of candidates soon formed around each wearer of an official Club tie. Too much laughter followed stupid jokes. Too much respect greeted inane comments. Too much brown nosing...

Author: By James E. Canning, | Title: Breaking With Family, Still Manly | 10/14/1986 | See Source »

...Russian-Jewish immigrants who raised poultry on a small Rhode Island farm. In one of many psychobiographical pole vaults, Herrmann says, "As soon as he could afford it, he began buying only the most expensive custom-made English clothes. They were so beautifully tailored they gave the impression their wearer had never suffered poverty, hardship and the terrible smell of thousands of chickens dying." That Perelman's similarly attired literary colleagues were not all fleeing from the aroma of guano is irrelevant; once the feather complex has been formulated, all facts must bend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Feather Complex S.J. Perelman: a Life | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

...design point of view, is more intense," Kawakubo says. "It's the first presentation of my new work in front of journalists from all over the world." These, however, are not the best of times for any design that makes demands on the initiative and imagination of the wearer. "It may sound a bit harsh," says Yohji Yamamoto, "but Europe's snobbishness is equal to America's conservatism. To people living in a conservative world, new fashions, new trends and new designs are like something you see in the theater: you clap, but you never live what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Showroom At the Top | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

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