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The wearing of the whiteIn the 1994 movie “Serial dresses, skirts, sweaters, jeans Mom,” actress Kathleen Turner and accessories, all year round.plays a psychopathic killer whoSome of the premature sum-does away with people who of- mer days we had a few weeksfend her sense of family values. One segment involved a victimago encouraged several women to break out their white linenplayed by Patty Hearst who had suits and skirts. One female em-the temerity to wear white shoes after Labor Day. Ms. Turnerployee at my office came dressed in a seersucker suit withwas incensed, to say the least, brown and white spectatorand did away with poor Patty. shoes. Not an eyebrow wasIt has been a long-standing tradition that wearing white Men were also once wedded(mostly in the Northeast and to the rules. Seersucker, chinoraised.Midwest) before Memorial Day and after Labor Day is frowned upon. Except, of course, if(poplin) suits and white bucks were taboo before and after the “white period.” (Tell that to au-you’re a bride on your wedding thor, Tom Wolfe.)day.Many current women’s fash-Today, fashion dictates oth- ion magazines have perpetuatederwise. It’s now open season on white! Women can be seen at the workplace or out shopping wearing their whites: shoes,the white look throughout the year. Young women of the Gap generation never followed the tradition nor even knew aboutit. Their white belly shirts and toreador pants abound even in the colder months.I’ll wear white anytime I have the whim,” said 21-year-old Kim Westfield. “I’ll dress inRestaurateur, Jim Stablein erence to stick to convention. 1 will only wear his white bucks organize all my white apparel in during those socially accepted months. “That goes for linen slacks too, no matter whatone section of my closet, anticipating the start of Memorialcolor,” said the 37-year-old.my long white linen skirt, but I’ll wear beige sandals, not white. I haven’t worn whiteshoes since my prom,” she said, have changed, but it’s my pref-Day,” said Gail.In my vest-pocket research, I found that “white is right” anytime with women under 40. However, men in that age group don’t follow fashion trends as much, and lean toward the more traditional.There are some other faux pas one should avoid if wearing white during the year. For men, unless you’re a marine wearing dress blues, or a Legionnaire, don’t wear a white belt. And ladies, white go-go boots went out with Nancy Sinatra.John LaPick is the creative director for Minuteman Newspa-And some women, like Gail pers. Nye, still go along with tradition. “I know fashion moresLETTERS LETTERS LETTERS LETTERS LETTERS LETTERS LETTERS LETTERSViewpointBY JOHN LAPICK
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Fairfield Minuteman
Fairfield, Connecticut, US
Thu, May 02, 2002
Page 19
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