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Article: The content of form.(fashion; In Defense of Elegance)(Cover Story)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- October 28, 1996
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FASHION, uninformed souls opine, is lowering and raising women's hemlines, widening and narrowing men's lapels. It reflects, they aver, nothing more than the greed of designers and clothing manufacturers, pressuring us to throw out perfectly good clothes before they wear out; or, worse yet, the vengeance of woman-hating homosexual designers on the female sex. There is even a moral ambivalence, as stated by a character in Albert Camus's The Fall: ''I am well aware that an addiction to silk underwear does not necessarily imply that one's feet are dirty. Nonetheless, style, like sheer silk, too often hides eczema.'' A sensible person is supposed to ignore the dictates of ...
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