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...Banana Republic slice of the retail spectrum, even producing its own line of jeans. As CEO and chairman, Del Vecchio has yanked the company back to its higher-brow heritage by rolling out new cuts of suits, reinvigorating the made-to-order and tailor shops, overhauling women's wear and upgrading fabrics and construction across the board (with higher prices to match). The result: "It's feeling like it felt in the old days," says Thomas Davis, a made-to-measure shirt specialist who has worked at Brooks Brothers since...
...question is whether the "Brooks look" can thrive in an age in which Ivy Leaguers wear sweats to class and celebrities make headlines for going pantyless. "Restrained elegance is not exactly fashionable these days," says Kurt Barnard, president of Barnard's Retail Forecasting Group. Consider that nearly half of Brooks' 190 U.S. stores are factory outlets. Professional attire in the U.S. has somewhat returned to the workplace since the dress-down '90s, but sales of suits, which make up more than 20% of Brooks' revenue, have been flat at best for the past few years...
Arab sheikdoms are steeped in conservative desert traditions, which discourage risky ventures in everything from marrying daughters to herding camels. The old rules, however, don't apply to the Persian Gulf's new generation of rulers. They may still wear the flowing thobe of their ancestors, but their mind-set is all pinstripe when they are taking on the modern world...
Spack subjects his patients to a lengthy evaluation process before recommending hormone therapy. Kids undergo a battery of interview-based psychological tests to see if they meet the medically established criteria for gender-identity disorder. The clothing they wear, the way they style their hair and the type of toys they play with are assessed. Family members, teachers and primary-care doctors are consulted. After weighing all the evidence, an interdisciplinary team of doctors and psychologists determines the severity of the gender variation and whether to recommend the child for hormone blockers. But the final decision rests with the parents...
...days. But we chrome domes have always suffered prejudice and discrimination. Even our Founding Fathers covered their bare heads with powdered wigs, undaunted by the British but cowed by hair loss. Today, however, remembering the noble bird the founders chose to represent our country, more of us refuse to wear rugs. Bald by nature or by our barbers, we proudly expose our shiny pates, revealing that a full head of hair is not what makes...