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...many traditional expectations and break so many rules that they need different sets of standards to be understood or even worn. "I know many people resist or reject my clothing, because it's not a package that's already formed, like European clothing," the designer will concede. "Without the wearer's ingenuity, my clothing isn't clothing. These are clothes where room is left for wearers to make things their own. That may need courage at first, but once you get the trick, it's not difficult...
soon-to-be alumnus Charlie Marchese went 20-1 in his final three seasons, earning Eastern League Pitcher of the Year honors in 1984. Mortarboard-wearer Jeff Musselman went 21 6 in a Crimson jersey. This season Musselman and Marchese accounted for more than half of Harvard's victories...
...glow. Says Rob Bernstein, 31, who spends 30 minutes each weekday at a tanning salon in Dallas: "I think a year- round tan is a good, successful, power look. It's just a part of good grooming." Better yet, a tan in the dead of winter implies that the wearer has the money and leisure to travel to exotic, sunny locales. Says Jeff Russell, 23, of Evanston, Ill.: "It's a conversation piece. People are always asking, 'Where have you been?' " The only problem is that the truthful answer may soon be all too commonplace: down at the tanning salon...
...lines, made in the U.S., Europe and Japan, are characterized generally by looseness of fit, sternness of fabric and an abundance of detailing. The simple functionality of jeans has, for the moment, been displaced by daunting arrays of tabs, Velcro closings, double pockets and looping drawstrings, so that the wearer, having mastered the intricacies of donning such a garment, emerges not as an urban cowboy but as an urban guerrilla, ready for a street fight in the great fashion...
...stop conferring and are ready. "The boy in the green top," Hornaday calls out, and, hesitantly, the third youth in line eases to the front. "The pink tights." As the wearer of that garment comes forward, the woman next to her winces at having been passed by. After another huddle, Hornaday says, "That's all." Immediately, a silver-haired man with a clipboard steps in from the side of the stage and intones in a swift singsong, "Those in the front line, please wait on the right. For the rest, thank you very much and please leave, as quickly...