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Page THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday September 1989 Looks to die from Make sure you dont dress like a fashion victim By Rocbelle Chadlkoff During a recent allnight campaign to meet a deadline I took home some Chinese food 01 course I opened the fortune cookie first There it was in plain pink and black a fait of inspi ration Simplicity and clarity should be your theme in dress Ah Confu cius fashion can indeed be confusing I debated about whether to pin these wise words on my closet mirror or bulletin board Or should I make copies and hand it out when I spot someone with a wayward wardrobe I could use this sage strip as a Band- Aid to help those who have become fashion victims apart from others And indeed these new clothes do reveal the inner man For a not so longago and faraway example of a fashion victim lets tune in to I Love Lucy In most episodes of this TV series Lucille Ball dressed like a stylish housewife who occa sionally became the victim of fashion Im not talking about the time she got a loving cup stuck on her bead or pre tended she was going to cut a mink coat into a stole or defied Ricky and bought another new hat Lucys haute couture hysteria occurred in Paris Do you remember when Rickys band was touring Europe and Lucy was de termined to bring home a Paris PETER FALK and Emily Lloyd star as a hottempered father and daughter who manage to stay one step ahead of both the mob and the law in Cookie a new comedy from director Susan Fashion victim While this expres sion may only be used within hearing range of New York Citys garment district the symptoms are known in every town The first time I heard it I was in a swank department store and overheard a saleswomans comment to a colleague Dial here comes another fashion victim So I looked quickly at the saleswoman diagnosing the case no fashion plate she wore an outfit that kept a safe distance from the cutting edge then to the socalled fashion victim a walking display for recent fads OK But something was wrong something didnt match or maybe it was just overkill What looked good in a magazine layout or even on five separate pages did not look an pent together on this woman on this day Perhaps the quintessential fashion victim was the Emperor In Hans Christian Andersens fairy tale The Emperors New Clothes An adult who wants to appear Important has a special outfit fabricated to set him nal The rage that season was not the shirtwaist dress but one with dropped waist and slightly blousoned top a look that Ricky deemed as appealing as a potato sack To teach Lucy a les son he had a tailor turn a burlap sack into the latest style Ricky also decid ed that a horses feed bag would make the perfect hat for his stylish wife Af ter bravely promenading this design er original at an elegant cafe Lucy quickly learns that she has become a fashion victim Loyal fans will recall that Lucy gets the last laugh a de RUST CHECK SAVE YOUR BODY NORTH END effects iallery Framing Centrei Limited Edition Prints 348 Guelph Street TO BELL GLASS M THE WOKE Georgetown sreent In PCs and PWlpntral for horn and small butfnni DELICIOUS Rotisserie Style BARBQUE CHICKEN 232GUELHST 87316467 signer sees Lucys outfit and copies it for his own models its amazing that you can think an outfit looks good in the dressing room or bedroom and then hate the way it looks when you go public In real life todays touted outfit can quickly become yesterdays pouf The cure for this syndrome can be found at Chanel Coco Chanel truly suited herself Rather than be coming a slave to fashion she mas tered style This prescription doesnt require buying a Chanel suit a quilted bag or strands of pearls Just keep in mind that you want people to remem ber you not your clothes The other night I watched a TV show featuring a singer She was in fine voice but she could have refined her outfit She wore her hair up in a high bun huge earrings a shawl draped over a leath er jacket and a miniskirt It was the latest stuff and it was a bit much In stead of listening to her I was too busy looking because each detail de manded attention Prevention is a fashion victims best home remedy Be honest when you look in the mirror Do you need to add that accessory Should you be wearing a miniskirt Are your stretch pants expanded a bit more than Span- should At an art show a friend pointed out a woman who looked like a python after it swallowed a beach ball I saw a plump woman in a fig urehugging flowered bodysuit which would have been hard for even the model Paulina to carry off The woman had curled into a chair and looked miserable I knew that syn drome Its amazing that you can think an outfit looks so good in the dressing room or your bedroom and then hate the way it looks when you go public While- fantasy is a large part of fashion be realistic in your choices Buy what wears well and what you can wear well And make sure your outfit suits the situation Every wed ding has a fashion victim Usually an eccentric aunt waltzes away with the too dressed up award The too un dressed award goes to the new girl friend of a man who just dumped a bridesmaid Keep the knockout dress for intimate dinners or for the Oscars Maybe being fashionable requires a critical eye and a good sense of bal ance It seems appropriate to give the last word here to the late Diana Vree- land who redefined fashion and st for over SO years as an editor Harpers Bazaar Vogue and as co to the the Costume Institute the Metropolitan Museum of Vreeland who was in her late 81 when she died on Aug 22 once ot served that bad taste has a certaii vitality But this woman considered to be the high priestess of fashion advised A new dress doesnt get you anywhere its the living in the dress and the sort of life you had lived be fore and what you will do in it later ENTERPRISE ASSN Be A Cool Cot And Check Out the Savings in fte Classified Section SPECIAL OF THE WEEK EVERY THURSDAY- HOT ROAST BEEF PLATE Include French VfjUDl lout MARTYS TOO RESTAURANT Georgetown Market 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