European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes f f f f january 1981 fashion Points Way the nation is heading i knew the nation was in big trouble when a local bookseller told me he had sold out of the official preppy handbook four i was Wor ried silly As fashion nothing is More import the decline and fall of the roman Empire was directly attributable to the the subjugation of women can be traced to bound feet in the inscrutable East and tight girdles in the insufferable the sad truth is that clothes make the some would say its hard to Tell which came first the Chicken or the the Angora sweater or the sex the pinstriped suit or the the ultrasuede dress or the society the Khaki trousers or the fraternity i have no doubt about the order of permit me to paraphrase Mencken no one Ever went broke overestimating the superficiality of the american in shifts in fashion Are the cause rather than the result of shifts in we Are not smart enough to know where were heading until we Are wearing the outfit that will take us the beatniks i saw lolling on the left Bank of the Seine didst have the slightest idea what their sweatshirts the tentative Maneu vers at the Start of a fashion revolution Are simply the inarticulate Bigings and groaning of a mostly in analytic Cul if we thought about what we Are wearing and we Wear in the beginning was the and the fashion was with and the fashion was that Why never understood the popular Reliance on the Dow Phil Joyce news think Jerry studs Terkel and political pollsters to Tell us How were doing and where were All we have to study is what people Are if the swing to the for has left you then you we rent paying Atten Tion to the right the first serious hint that the conservatives would soon be run Ning the country came with the publication of a Book called dress for the official preppy Little did the Public know that this Book Wouldhave a greater Impact than Darwin the origin of Marxs Das capital and people Magazine All put the concept of dressing for Success carried All the elements for an eventual preppy after if you Are a person Bent on dressing for then you Are obviously shrewd and Mer when people started dressing for retrogression was sure to the first thing that happened was a return to class distinct when everybody was wearing you Tell t who was some people get very uneasy if you dont know who they so suddenly the comfortable jeans and shirts ensemble acquired designer Calvin Klein went on the hip Pierre Cardin went on the and democratic principles went out the but even the Low class people have sense enough to save their pennies to put their Cowboy boots and designer jeans on something More was needed to emphasize class enter the preppy which is so so so full of a million Stark Little imperatives size and shape of i just cart take the Vouge to help me Gret out of the Mike Width of length and Lay of Baggines of number of so Trade yet so yet so crucial that Only the Leisure class could take time to figure it All the preppy look has put the Hearth Back in the Home and the mamas Back in the polyester gave the american people a Freedom they had never experienced All you needed was one decent Pant one clothes one Bounce Towel to take out unpleasant and you were ready for women could go out and have children could do the what was so hard about keeping up one polyester ensemble and one pair of faded jeans everything has the family must stay together because leaving would too much packing two or three your knee your your your your Gold your simple your your sunday your your Garter your bottle of Polo i How you Gonna stalk out of the House for Good with All that heavy fashion Burden to carry then the nation women can forget the mom will be needed at Home on a full time she will be ironing the totally Blue Oxford cloth shirt that belongs to her preppy you know the shirt i mean one everybody was wearing Way Back in the of i myself wont be doing any in real Democrat if its not machine and totally i dont buy i dont see Why i should go backward just be cause everybody else danish Exchange student killed in Maine Accident Maine a an 18 year old Exchange student from Denmark was killed in a one car Accident in Woods state police the victim was identified As Lars who was a passenger in a car that Slid off the Road and hit a tree along route state police said Rasmussen was living with people in but they had no fur ther across 40 Josheps 1 unadulterated 42 Cains land 5 chinese Wax 43 a Large 9 Baste 12 an astringent 13 freezes 14 the Gums 15 tries to Tan 17 negative particle 18 aware of 19 eldritch 21 French economist 24 Inland sea 25 Burden 26 Speaks of 30 fasten 31 Evans and Robertson 32 court 33 for one 35 divorce Mecca 36 female of the red Deer 37 Argentine politician 38 slowed land jellyfish 48 drive Nail Sla tingly 49 jog 50 Stead 51 paid notices 52 evergreens 53 Spruce Down 1 de Deus 2 Eskimo knife 3 flee 4 raise in Relief 5 English statesman 6 reverberate 7 author Harper 8 declares positively 9 Kansas Blossom 10 word in Mark 11 to caution 16 some solution time 24 answer to yesterdays 20 medieval Short tale 21 English poet 22 cuckoos 23 parasols 24 Dill Plant 26 serving girl 27 overhead railways 28 something forbidden 29 presently 31 succession of Kings of the same line 34 assistance 35 outcome 37 coarse demanding Speed 38 pilaster 39 Cross 40 be sure of 41 followers of isms 44 Mist 45 publicize 46luau necklace 47 celtic god of Light 12 15 21 25 38 48 51 22 39 23 36 18 34 i i 11 i n 16 31 26 43 49 52 27 40 24 41 19 37 20 35 50 53 9 10 14 17 32 28 45 46 11 29 127 Clear Onn Landers dear Ann Landers during the recent political Many of your readers were subjected to a radio commercial in which the word was used this offended a great number of the radio station where i work was flooded with we tried to explain to an out raged Public that the acc fed eral communications commis Sion has decreed that there will be no no editing and no rejection of commercials from politicians regardless of con this Means if some Kook wants to yell the filthiest words he can think of Over and Over for 30 the acc says he must be permitted to do to is also subject to this so if some nut wants to show 30 seconds of the wildest the Law is on his your business readers might like to know that politicians get the lowest rates whether they buy time for one commercial or a commercial Cus on the other must buy a thousand to get the same if your readers Are interested in keeping filth off the airwaves in the next they should write to their congressperson and in Bay dear Bay City i checked with Newton a Chicago at Torney and former head of the he it is the Law forbids any censorship of a political con Gress passed this Law a year on i believe it is a Good to edit political Mes sages would be a violation of the first in Exchange for Freedom of speech i am will ing to listen to a Little barnyard did you notice that the Candi Date who used the offensive word twice in his commercial didst get Many votes the Shock or whatever he was didst in it distracted the listener from the message and was dear Ann Landers id like to comment on the letter from the woman who signed one less she was feeling pretty Good about being a tested marketable she said the proposition came from her husbands Best Best huh Sec she said some wives remain faithful because they have never had an appealing Appeal ing offer huh then she went on to say she knows scandal can tear families now it is time she took a Good look at the rat who asked her to have an Why feel complimented when a Man like that wants to go to bed with you he is no body Friend and care less about a that kind never he just wants what he there is no Way to keep Low Down skunks from but How a sensible woman can con Sider a cheap pitch like that a compliment is beyond dear 2020 thank you for shaking the molars of that Dumbbell who was flattered out of her Gourd because her Hus bands Best Friend invited her to go a proposition like that Doest mean the woman is considered desirable it just Means he thinks she is
