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...only has designer underwear become a fad, but the look of all underwear has changed as well. Underwear made of satin and silk with lace trimming is being replaced by a more athletic style. This new image, still sexy, is much more practical. It bridges the gap between underwear you put on for class and underwear you wear to a hot date. Today's underwear is multipurpose, and much more comfortable than the Victoria's Secret lace crotch-floss...
...most part, Currierites areunquestioningly loyal to their machine. Perhapsthe craze is nothing to be worried about; perhapsit is only a fad. Just remember: that's what theysaid about...
...latest version of the fad started among the flower children of California, for whom its appeal is easy to understand. For one thing, it is pure psychedelia. And tie-dying is cheap. For little added cost, it can turn a 32 cents T shirt into strawberry fields forever, or an old pair of jeans into a tiptoe through the tulips.The fashion spread rapidly through the rock world; many of its stars now sleep in tie-dyed sheets (Janis Joplin has a set in satin). Pop singer John Sebastian habitually turns himself out in tie-dye from chin to tennis shoes...
...powers. Louis Brandeis famously described a state as a "laboratory ... of social and economic experiments," able to try out public policy in a way the lumbering national government cannot. But subsidiarity is not the only principle of good government, and there are good reasons for skepticism about the current fad for solving every problem of the nation (welfare, health care, environmental regulation, etc.) by dumping it on the separate states...
...Basinger is a natural as FAD-TV's star fashion reporter, Kitty Potter, a dizzy blonde with a pronounced Southern accent. The studio publicity for "Ready to Wear" gushes that Basinger only had ten days of preparation time for the role--what an agonizing stretch it must have been for her. Kitty is meant to be our Virgil, adding structure and guiding us through the pitfalls of fashion hell. But Basinger, like Altman, his actors and audience, gives up trying to understand what's going on and instead enjoys the spectacle...