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Clutch: Wide-leg jeans are back; know how to wear them

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:43:46 +0000

Whether you love them or hate them, wide-leg jeans are back in style this spring. There is a trick to wearing them, however. Some women tend to shy away from this particular cut because they believe the wide leg makes them look heavy. But they can actually make you look rather slim if you wear them the right way.

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Hot or Not: Monica

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:41:54 +0000

Filed under: Celebrity Style , Hot or Not , Accessories Singer Monica was backstage this weekend at Magnum’s Live Large Project event in Atlanta wearing this snazzy all-white outfit. She paired her ripped jeans with a white tank, adorned with studs, along with a leather-studded shrug. The songstress showed off her love for music with her diamond treble clef earrings paired with a shimmery cuffed …

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Slice-of-life film shares keen observations

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:20:18 +0000

A New Yorker named Kate (Catherine Keener) refuses to spend $200 on jeans for her 15-year-old daughter. Not, she says, “when there are 45 homeless people living on our street.” Kate will, however, buy modern mid-century furniture from the relatives of the recently deceased, mark the pieces up and sell them in the vintage store she and her husband, Alex (Oliver Platt), operate.

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Tickets for Knicks game in Italy now on sale

Thu, 20 May 2010 13:10:02 +0000

Tickets are now on sale for the NBA Europe Live 2010 presented by EA SPORTS game in Milan between Armani Jeans Milano and the New York Knicks, the NBA has announced. The game, to be played at the Mediolanum Forum on Oct. 3, will feature the return of former Olimpia Milano players Danilo Gallinari and Mike D’Antoni, now with the New York Knicks.

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Obituary: Charles C. Bowlin / Contractor and charismatic Christian leader

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:26:45 +0000

Shari Raymond remembers watching her father, Charles C. Bowlin, pile dozens of sweatshirts and jeans on a store checkout counter.

American Eagle sees strong spring sales

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:57:24 +0000

American Eagle Outfitters Inc. sold plenty of jeans , shorts, T-shirts and woven shirts to drive sales in established stores up 15 percent in March, making for a more festive spring break than last year, when the South Side teen retailer saw that sales number drop 16 percent

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A Rare Spirit, a Rarer Eye (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:22:45 +0000

NECKS craned for a glimpse of Patti Smith as she settled at her customary corner table at Da Silvano in Greenwich Village, a favorite afternoon haunt, earlier this month. The wonder was that the patrons, silver haired and sleekly buffed, could pick her out at all. Ms. Smith was understated, even self-effacing in her mannish jacket, boater shirt and beat-up jeans. Watching her sip hot water and …

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Robert Morris: Colonials ecstatic with a 15 (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:10:02 +0000

Shortly after wiping a pair of moist palms on his jeans, Robert Morris freshman guard Velton Jones turned around in his chair. “Am I the only nervous one here?”

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Gap offering jean turn in program to help environment (WKYT Lexington)

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:46:28 +0000

Gap has discovered a way to put you in new jeans and clean out your closet at the same time.

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Read My Hips: These Are Jeans That Fit (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:29:31 +0000

THE big issues and tough questions are what concern us here in Style Land. Let other people fret about the recession, health care and the future of Conan O’Brien’s pompadour. What troubles us is how the male consumer’s simplest decision somehow became the most difficult and fraught. Why, that is, are blue jeans, that most blameless and universal item of apparel, the one thing men always get wrong?

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