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I've read this in a few places. Can you believe it? I will wait and see if it's real!
Naughty losing out to nice in fashion
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By Jean Patteson
The Orlando Sentinel
July 20, 2004
Miniskirts, skimpy tops and those embarrassing, thong-baring jeans are on the way out. They are being replaced by high-waist pants, long-sleeve tunics and knee-grazing skirts.
The latest fashion watchword is modesty.
A word long missing from the style lexicon, it's suddenly on the tongue of every trend-watcher, on the runways of London, Paris and New York, and in the latest issues of magazines as different as Seventeen, InStyle and Vogue.
"Naughty vs. nice," trumpets Vogue's cover. And inside: "The end of the reign of the teen pop temptress. . . . Britney, Paris and Christina are overexposed in every way."
InStyle suggests readers steal the preppy '50s look of Faith Hill in "The Stepford Wives," and praises the "bookish refinement" of Hilary Swank's buttoned-up white blouse and knee-length gray skirt.
Hilary Duff, looking squeaky-clean in a demure, dove-gray jacket over a white top, is Seventeen's cover girl. (Could old-fashioned names such as Hilary also be part of the trend?)
"The first reason that comes to mind is the most obvious: the fashion pendulum," says Rachel Weingarten, a trends expert and president of GTK Marketing Group in New York. "Fashion is always swinging from one extreme to the other: mini to maxi, tight leggings to baggy pants, bare to covered-up.
There's also the current backlash against showing too much skin, she says -- against Abercrombie & Fitch's naked catalog models, against Janet Jackson's nipple flash during the Super Bowl halftime show.
The backlash against revealing fashions has been unusually virulent in recent months, says Lyn Mikel Brown, an associate professor of women's gender and sexuality studies at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.
The reason: Marketers have targeted "even the littlest girls with sexualized clothing and messages."
Catherine Stellin, a vice president at Youth Intelligence, a trend-tracking company in Los Angeles, agrees the "slutty look" is passe.
In interviews with girls and young women across the country, "the word 'trashy' came up a lot," Stellin says. Teens who a few months ago emulated the provocative style of pop idols such as Jennifer Lopez now are spurning those looks as "trashy," she says.
Their new role models are fresh-faced stars such as TV's Mischa Barton of "The O.C." and Amber Tamblyn of "Joan of Arcadia."
Sexy style is the culmination of two major lifestyle forces: "The sexual-liberation movements of the 1970s and the physical-fitness craze of the '80s.
They merged during the '90s, slowly but surely," says David Wolfe, creative director at the Doneger Group, a trend-forecasting company in New York. "Now low-rise can go no lower -- I hope."
Fashion has reached the point of "sleaze fatigue," says Jamie Ross, another consultant with the Doneger Group. "Bare just doesn't look new anymore -- and fashion needs to look new all the time."
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Jul 27, 2004
Skin, it appears, is no longer in. According to the fashion police (the clothing manufacturers who want to make more money selling more clothes) fashions for teenage girls are heading for the modest side of the street.
"Naughty vs. nice," says Vogue's cover. Inside: "The end of the reign of the teen pop temptress. . . . Britney, Paris and Christina are overexposed in every way."
Catherine Stellin, a vice president at Youth Intelligence, a trend-tracking company in Los Angeles, agrees the "slutty look" is passe.
In interviews with girls and young women across the country, "the word 'trashy' came up a lot," Stellin says. Teens who a few months ago emulated the provocative style of pop idols such as Jennifer Lopez now are spurning those looks as "trashy," she says.
No more little girls looking like little whores? Oh, the horror of it all.
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Naughty losing out to nice in fashion
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By Jean Patteson
The Orlando Sentinel
July 20, 2004
Miniskirts, skimpy tops and those embarrassing, thong-baring jeans are on the way out. They are being replaced by high-waist pants, long-sleeve tunics and knee-grazing skirts.
The latest fashion watchword is modesty.
A word long missing from the style lexicon, it's suddenly on the tongue of every trend-watcher, on the runways of London, Paris and New York, and in the latest issues of magazines as different as Seventeen, InStyle and Vogue.
"Naughty vs. nice," trumpets Vogue's cover. And inside: "The end of the reign of the teen pop temptress. . . . Britney, Paris and Christina are overexposed in every way."
InStyle suggests readers steal the preppy '50s look of Faith Hill in "The Stepford Wives," and praises the "bookish refinement" of Hilary Swank's buttoned-up white blouse and knee-length gray skirt.
Hilary Duff, looking squeaky-clean in a demure, dove-gray jacket over a white top, is Seventeen's cover girl. (Could old-fashioned names such as Hilary also be part of the trend?)
"The first reason that comes to mind is the most obvious: the fashion pendulum," says Rachel Weingarten, a trends expert and president of GTK Marketing Group in New York. "Fashion is always swinging from one extreme to the other: mini to maxi, tight leggings to baggy pants, bare to covered-up.
There's also the current backlash against showing too much skin, she says -- against Abercrombie & Fitch's naked catalog models, against Janet Jackson's nipple flash during the Super Bowl halftime show.
The backlash against revealing fashions has been unusually virulent in recent months, says Lyn Mikel Brown, an associate professor of women's gender and sexuality studies at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.
The reason: Marketers have targeted "even the littlest girls with sexualized clothing and messages."
Catherine Stellin, a vice president at Youth Intelligence, a trend-tracking company in Los Angeles, agrees the "slutty look" is passe.
In interviews with girls and young women across the country, "the word 'trashy' came up a lot," Stellin says. Teens who a few months ago emulated the provocative style of pop idols such as Jennifer Lopez now are spurning those looks as "trashy," she says.
Their new role models are fresh-faced stars such as TV's Mischa Barton of "The O.C." and Amber Tamblyn of "Joan of Arcadia."
Sexy style is the culmination of two major lifestyle forces: "The sexual-liberation movements of the 1970s and the physical-fitness craze of the '80s.
They merged during the '90s, slowly but surely," says David Wolfe, creative director at the Doneger Group, a trend-forecasting company in New York. "Now low-rise can go no lower -- I hope."
Fashion has reached the point of "sleaze fatigue," says Jamie Ross, another consultant with the Doneger Group. "Bare just doesn't look new anymore -- and fashion needs to look new all the time."
Article # 2
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD bgColor=#ffffff>American Newsreel
(Perspective on the news by Capitol Hill Blue founder and publisher Doug Thompson)</TD></TR><!-- begin syndicated content --><SCRIPT language=Javascript1.1><!-- var syndicate = new Object; syndicate.title_fontbold = true; syndicate.title_fontital = false; syndicate.title_fontface = 'arial,helvetica,sans-serif'; syndicate.title_fontsize = '3'; syndicate.title_fontcolor = '#000099'; syndicate.date_fontbold = false; syndicate.date_fontital = true; syndicate.date_fontunder = false; syndicate.date_fontface = 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'; syndicate.date_fontsize = '1'; syndicate.date_fontcolor = '#666666'; syndicate.summary_fontbold = false; syndicate.summary_fontital = false; syndicate.summary_fontunder = false; syndicate.summary_fontface = 'arial,helvetica,sans-serif'; syndicate.summary_fontsize = '2'; syndicate.summary_fontcolor = '#000000'; syndicate.bgcolor = '#FFFFFF'; syndicate.max_articles = '1'; syndicate.display_date = true; syndicate.display_summaries = true; syndicate.not_found_message = 'Sorry, no articles were found.'; // --> </SCRIPT><SCRIPT language=Javascript1.1 src="http://www.americannewsreel.com/artman/publish2/syndicate_0.js"></SCRIPT><TR><TD bgColor=#ffffff>The Whore Look is Out
Jul 27, 2004
Skin, it appears, is no longer in. According to the fashion police (the clothing manufacturers who want to make more money selling more clothes) fashions for teenage girls are heading for the modest side of the street.
"Naughty vs. nice," says Vogue's cover. Inside: "The end of the reign of the teen pop temptress. . . . Britney, Paris and Christina are overexposed in every way."
Catherine Stellin, a vice president at Youth Intelligence, a trend-tracking company in Los Angeles, agrees the "slutty look" is passe.
In interviews with girls and young women across the country, "the word 'trashy' came up a lot," Stellin says. Teens who a few months ago emulated the provocative style of pop idols such as Jennifer Lopez now are spurning those looks as "trashy," she says.
No more little girls looking like little whores? Oh, the horror of it all.
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