DEAR MISS MANNERS – I am a 19-year-old college student, but I do not like to dress in “modern fashions” as defined by my fellow students (torn jeans and revealing tops), but dress in handmade tailored jackets and dresses with heels. I am often taunted by fellow students, but I am now insulted by random strangers in public as to why I don’t “dress my own age,” and choose to take cues from my …
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No such thing as dressing one’s age – Wed, 15 Jun 2011 PST
Greenpeace released a striking photo gallery last week entitled “The dirty secret behind your jeans and bras.” It chronicles the working conditions and pollution in two of Guangdong’s main textile hubs, where most of the world’s jeans, bras and underwear are made. Greenpeace had a look at the human and environmental impact of the industries, and the results were pretty bleak. The …
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Gallery: Pollution in China’s textile towns
Unhappily unattached menfolk of America, that soul patch beneath your lower lip may be discouraging a potential soul mate from sticking around through the salad course of your first date. And the stakes are as high as the waist on those dad jeans.
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Dating don’ts – Sat, 27 Feb 2010 PST (The Spokesman-Review)
Are you a T-shirt-and-jeans person with a chintz living room, or someone who loves the structure of a suit but wakes up in a shabby chic bedroom? The decorating world is shifting toward a streamlined look that, at the very least, complements the personal style that people already incorporate into their wardrobes. “It’s a really modern thing that people look more and more like their houses,” says …
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Home accessorizing – Sun, 08 Nov 2009 PST (The Spokesman-Review)
The folks at ChinaTravel.net noticed a little (or perhaps not so little) something about a recent image of Haibao: Like the USA pavilion, he seems to have gotten a mysterious, but very well endowed new package. Haibao Americano also has the extra perk of looking quite campy. Nice. The less-androgynous version is somehow more attractive to us and we’re happy Haibao’s finally throwing off a little …
Continue here: Haibao looks goooood in tight jeans! (Shanghaiist)
Americans cut back on their clothing spending across the board in 2008. All, that is, except for blue jeans. And spendy, high-end blue jeans in particular were selling at a pace ahead of past years.
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Jeans sales hint at recovery – Mon, 27 Apr 2009 PST (The Spokesman-Review)
Michelle Obama has nothing on Julia Roberts. On the Monday after the Oscar ceremony, there was the elusive actress, in a fitted black blazer, jeans and rippling locks, with all the presence of a polished but approachable politician, pressing palms and personally greeting each member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association – that idiosyncratic group that bestows the Golden Globes – in a …
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Julia Roberts shows she’s a first lady at home and on film – Fri, 20 Mar 2009 PST (The Spokesman-Review)