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- From: bobc@pyramid.unr.edu (Bob Conrad)
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- Subject: Re: Latest F5 info
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.011954.9239@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 01:19:54 GMT
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- In article <C1G2J7.K4M@news.udel.edu> cate@brahms.udel.edu (Catherine M Leonard) writes:
- >Major resonance here. I was looking through two very mainstream fashion
- >mags this weekend that had features on the Grunge Explosion in the High
- >$$$ fashion markets. Clothes that I wore back in the 70s and that my
- >younger friends have been purchasing from Goodwill for the last couple of
- >years are being manufactured ( I WILL NOT say designed) by Lagerfeld,
- >Ellis et al. A tiny knit top that sold for $9 in 1973 and $.50 at Goodwill
- >today is priced out at $300+ from the big name folks. The models have
- >brightly colored hair and wear Doc Martens. I feel ripped off. It *almost*
- >enough to make me toss my combat boots. At least the American models
- >aren't sporting body piercing. Yet. <sigh> That would be too much.
- >(although I've seen European models with pierced noses)
- >
- >Guess it's about time to re-invent myself again. (If it's good enuf for
- >Anais Nin I guess it's good enuf for me. :-) )
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- MR&R had a decent article by Samuel Nathan Schiffman about all this.
- it was a few months ago...)
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