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1 | | PARIS - When Calvin Klein was criticized last | | | |
| | month for an ad featuring small children in | | | |
| | underwear, it wasn't just more of the outrage | | | |
| | that has greeted so many disturbing fashion | | | |
| | images - notably skeletal models in tiny undies. | | | |
2 | | The marketing of clothes - some of them pretty | | | |
| | raunchy - to children and pre-teens raises all sorts of | | | |
| | issues about what clothes "mean" and about the | | | |
| | influence of the vast network of popular culture | | | |
| | salesmanship. It is ironic that, as fashion enters | | | |
| | the third millennium, clothes for grown-up women | | | |
| | have become positively genteel, with the twin set | | | |
| | seeming ubiquitous and even the bad Brits toned | | | |
| | down. It seems the real fashion victims now are | | | |
| | Lolita's age. | | | |
3 | | Fashion is so self-referential and its cycles are | | | |
| | so short that a lot of the "content" of fashion has | | | |
| | disappeared; nothing today has the political impact | | | |
| | of '60s near-nudity, or shirts made out of the | | | |
| | American flag. Bra burning? Huh? | | | |
4 | | Fashion no longer tells us women are becoming more | | | |
| | independent or men are getting in touch with their | | 10 | | IF CLOTHING has lost its "guild" breakdown - if it no |
| | inner child. | | | | longer separates the blue and the white collars, the ghetto |
5 | | And fashion, dipping into the world of uniforms | | | | and the country club - it has not lost its power to disturb |
| | and utilitarian clothing, blurs class lines in a | | | | when it blurs the line sexually. The decadent pictures of |
| | dizzying way: expensive ready-to-wear drawn from | | | | willfully androgynous models, of anorectically thin and |
| | ghetto threads; sportswear morphed into evening | | | | sickly young models, of "heroin chic" - none of which has |
| | clothes; Casual Friday vs. the suit. And of course | | | | gone away despite lots of noise to the contrary - seem to |
| | middle-class teens dressed in their own sad rags | | | | have paved the way toward breaking the ultimate taboo: |
| | uniforms: think back to the farmboy look, which | | | | children. |
| | horrified so many American parents in the late 1960s | | 11 | | This isn't selling Barbie dolls, this is selling the |
| | and early 1970s, who had grown up on Depression- | | | | Barbie doll look to girls in grade school. At the same |
| | era farms and fled them for college degrees and | | | | time as Barbie herself turns 40 and is being reissued |
| | serious desk jobs, and could not understand why | | | | with a more realistic body, we're remaking little girls |
| | their children started wearing baggy overalls and | | | | into disturbing erotic figures. |
| | baggy T-shirts and looking pretty much like the | | 12 | | It's difficult to judge how much of this tacky |
| | Beverly Hillbillies. | | | | costume party is harmless, just more of the waves of |
| | | | | | popular culture that we can't, after all, do anything |
6 | | ALL THIS makes sense in societies with soaring | | | | about. |
| | stock markets where the social fabric is money. | | 13 | | There is an argument that the reason only adults |
| | In fashion the social fabric is just that, fabric. | | | | are shocked by these things is that kids have an |
| | All of us in this way invent ourselves like Jay | | | | elaborate but complicated relationship with truth and |
| | Gatsby, with, one hopes, better results. In that | | | | fiction that allows them to put on faces and costumes |
| | sense, fashion helps to create some kind of melting | | | | without absorbing the associated behavior. They can |
| | pot. | | | | play cowboys and Indians without becoming killers |
7 | | When it comes to children, however, what fashion | | | | and they dress up as showgirls just as they would dress |
| | "means" does become more prominent. An 11-yearold | | | | as princesses. |
| | wearing come-hither clothes isn't in the same | | 14 | | Maybe it is, after all, just the old game of putting on |
| | position as a 25-year-old. She is being used, in what | | | | Mom's clothes - except it's hard to believe Mom |
| | would seem the most cynical way, to sell not only | | | | would ever wear these clothes. |
| | clothes but synthetic popular music groups and gooey | | 15 | | Once upon a time, before the sexual revolution and |
| | animated movies. | | | | the Me Generation, school uniforms or smocks served |
8 | | The only real customers for the extraterrestrial | | | | laudable purposes: they protected street clothes, they |
| | floozy look of the Spice Girls or the irredeemably | | | | made children look studious (this is actually useful, in |
| | commercial tie-ins of those movies are little girls. | | | | a clothes-make-the-man kind of way), and most |
| | Clothes catalogues sell skintight two-piece outfits (bra | | | | important perhaps, they avoided keeping-up-with-the- |
| | and pedal pushers) advertising the boys band 2 Be 3 (the | | | | Joneses clothing competitions.As fashion recycles the |
| | Chippendales for the pre-teen set) to 10-year-olds. The | | | | greatest hits of the last 50 years, it's high time for a |
| | boys in the band are barechested. The little girl models | | | | comeback: Call it the Return of the Nice Kid. |
| | strike alluring poses. | | | |
9 | | Marketing to little people is nothing new, of course, and | | | | KATHERINE KNORR is a deputy editor of the |
| | Saturday morning American TV early on specialized in | | | | International Herald Tribune. |
| | telling children to tell their parents what to buy. But | | | |
| | the marketing of clothes is something else. | | | | 'The International Herald Tribune' |