Word: miniskirts
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...enforcing laws prohibiting 1,600 hawkers from unduly exposing certain parts of the female anatomy, specifically breasts, bellies and buttocks. Vendors, of course, claim the restrictions will shrink demand for betel nuts. "It's all about competition," says 19-year-old hawker Hsiao Enn, who works in a crimson miniskirt and revealing blouse. "But I have principles. I'm not so desperate as to show my private parts." Josephine Ho, a professor at Taiwan's National Central University, says hawkers should be allowed to bare all they can bear, if only for the sake of their working-class patrons...
...will grow a magical 10 centimeters before hitting store shelves. And if designers don't make viable alternatives available themselves, retailers can always find safer versions of the same trends at other houses. The batwing tops seen at Dior, Gucci and Stella McCartney are the flip side of the miniskirt trend. Dior and Gucci have been pushing this new, billowing silhouette for several seasons, but it's new for Stella McCartney, who showed the best collection of her short career at her own label. If a ballooning blouson jacket in crocodile seems a bit too much, a floaty top like...
...CLARA KROELL, 19-year-old German at Oktoberfest, after a middle-aged woman criticized the miniskirt on her dirndl...
...popular press. Establishment figures back home may have been perturbed by Fielding's appearance in a German magazine photo spread, but Borer makes no apology for the shots of his glamorous blonde wife in a strapless gown astride a horse and toting toy guns in a red miniskirt - a dollar sign above her cleavage - on the roof the newly refurbished embassy. "Thanks to those pictures we had about 200 journalists at the inauguration of our embassy and a lot of positive press," he says. "Meanwhile, my colleagues who didn't do anything comparable had about two journalists and no mention...
...striving, fast-talking wedding planner keeps up a mobile-phone patter with his stock-market-mad mother. Nair insists this world is Indian - and, more to the point, Punjabi and New Delhi - to its core. "It's a film made at my dining table," she says. "The Prada miniskirt in the morning and the sari at night. It's just the way we live...