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Bargain hunters headed for Bangkok's cheap-clothing markets and custom tailors can now add designer maternity wear to their shopping lists. The city's one-year-old Amayi boutique has become a magnet for mums-to-be, thanks to the fashion sense of founder Nida White. Disappointed with the clothing choices she faced during her pregnancy, the onetime political-science student decided to establish her own clothing line, trading on a combination of trendy design and the kind of luxe fabrics not usually associated with maternity garments (goodbye spandex!). "Everybody wants to look good all the time," says White...
White creates the designs and selects the fabrics herself, aiming for outfits that fit loosely but still look hip. The results are attracting expectant local celebrities like Thai screen star Wanwalai Posayanont. "They actually look like clothes that I would wear when I'm not pregnant," says the 30-year-old actress. For details visit www.amayi.co.th...
...wander around the capital, Damascus, gives no clues at first. Syrian culture is relatively conservative and this is reflected in what people wear on the streets. But if you know what you're looking for, you'll gradually start to spot it: a window of lace-up basques here, a display of fishnets there, and over there - an eyeful of bras and boas that would put the Playboy Mansion to shame. A lot of local men have a taste for such things because they're "like children," posits the manager of the upper-end Charme lingerie store. "They get bored...
...cold by a security goon. "We'd been trained never to make that mistake; I made it anyway." As a detective, O is as hard-boiled as they come, a barely subordinate loner with a disdain for the pins of the Leaders that every North Korean is expected to wear and a woodworking hobby that threatens to earn him an "antisocial" note in his file. ("Why the hell can't you just smoke, like everyone else?" the Chief Inspector complains.) But O gets results, and when the body of a Western diplomat is discovered in a room at Pyongyang...
...first half of the Dartmouth game, Hallion perhaps showed signs of wear. At halftime, she had recorded only four points and her team trailed...