Fresh, and a little edgy; Boston designer Denise Hajjar talks fashion.
Byline: Nancy Sheehan Fashion designer Denise Hajjar knows that big dreams start small. Hajjar has been recognized with hundreds of awards, and in March of 2006 was asked by the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston to be their designer-in- residence. She accepted and opened...

Force = mass x acceleration: overcoming Newton's second law with better bra technology.
ONE SIDE EFFECT OF THE OBESITY EPIDEMIC in America is rarely noted: Women's chests are expanding nearly as fast as their bellies. Poor eating habits, as well as breast implants and the estrogens in birth-control pills, have led to an increase in the past 15 years of more than...

Rainy day women Nos. 12 and 35 ... in Victoria's Secret undies.
Byline: LARRY McSHANE NEW YORK (AP) Singer Bob Dylan appears in a new series of commercials for lingerie maker Victorias Secret, his grizzled face intercut with shots of model Adriana Lima cavorting though Venice in a bra, panties and spike heels. Dont worry. The 62-year-old...

Rainy day women Nos. 12 and 35 ... in Victoria's Secret undies.
Byline: LARRY McSHANE NEW YORK (AP) u Singer Bob Dylan appears in a new series of commercials for lingerie maker VictoriaEs Secret, his grizzled face intercut with shots of model Adriana Lima cavorting though Venice in a bra, panties and spike heels. DonEt worry. The...

Interactive Discovery.
One of the most difficult tasks of a teacher is to get students to think "outside the box," to come to a new way of seeing. Six Human Ecology faculty members have gone beyond the usual classroom strategies to offer learning experiences like none other. From Apparel...

Collected Writings.
A WRITER'S "concerns are with all mankind," wrote Thomas Paine in 1777, "and though he cannot command their obedience, he can assign them their duty." "Poor Paine [is] not the most prudent man in the world," wrote an American a few years later. These books support both judgments. John...

Tom Paine.
Tom Paine, by John Keane (Little, Brown, 644 pp., $27.95) Collected Writings, by Thomas Paine (Library of America, 906 pp., $35) A WRITER'S "concerns are with all mankind," wrote Thomas Paine in 1777, "and though he cannot command their obedience, he can assign them their duty." "Poor Paine...

Mentor to Collaborate wiht Le Mystere.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-14 February 2008-Mentor to Collaborate wiht Le Mystere(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Mentor Corp., a supplier of medical products for the global aesthetic market, announced that it has formed an online collaboration with top lingerie manufacturer Le Mystere, with broad distribution in the U.S....

Nine West Group Names Richard Paterno President, Wholesale Better Footwear Brands.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-3 March 2008-Nine West Group Names Richard Paterno President, Wholesale Better Footwear Brands(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Nine West Group, a division of Jones Apparel Group, announced that Richard Paterno has been appointed President, Wholesale Better Footwear Brands, effective March 31. In...

Organizing and on strike: portraits of the Chinese Ladies Garment Workers unions Local No. 341 in 1938.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Photos from Chinese Digest's coverage of the 1938 strike of the workers sewing for National Dollar Store factory: TWO GENERATIONS, BUT WITH ONE PURPOSE--PICKETING Among the 159 or so women garment factory workers who recently called a strike for higher wages...