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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: trends

trends stories: 8 news summaries

 Gender Bending Is 
 Back in Fashion 

Men's, women's, who cares? young dressers tell market

Nov 19, 09 11:20 AM CST
(Newser) - Call it the new cross-dressing: Young fashionistas are exhibiting a willful disregard for whether items of clothing are “men’s” or “women’s,” mixing and matching what works for them into an androgynous personal statement. So while one young clotheshorse allows he might not don a skirt,... More »

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fashion • clothing • cross dressing • gender confusion • trends • androgynous • youth culture

SLIDESHOW


 How Skulls 
 Took Over 
 Fashion 

Once scary, now stylish, skulls are trendy—and not just at Halloween

Oct 30, 09 11:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Skulls, once seen as sinister symbols, are now used on everything from children's shirts to underwear. Sara Dickerman of Slate takes a look at how the trend developed:
  • In the 16th century, artists like Albrecht Dürer were still using skulls to remind people of their mortality.
  • French
... More »

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fashion • skull • Grateful Dead • pirates • Halloween • Vivienne Westwood • trend • Jay-ZTV • women's issues • trends • Alexander McQueen

 Say Goodbye to $600 Jeans 

Thanks to the recession, premium denim comes at a lower premium

Oct 29, 09 11:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - If you couldn't afford a pair of "premium jeans" last year, maybe you can now. Though the basic components of jeans haven't changed in decades, prices skyrocketed early in the decade—but thanks to the recession, designer denim that might have gone for more than $300 two years ago... More »

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fashion • jeans • denim • Jay-ZTV • designer fashion • trends



 Truly Wacky Online Dating Sites 

From vampire lovers to geeks to punk rockers, a site for everyone

Oct 25, 09 10:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - If the matches you’re finding on eHarmony are too vanilla, never fear: There’s a dating site out there for you, and Julie Gerstein of Lemondrop rounds up the quirkiest of the quirky:
  • If you wear a lot of black: Find your “own personal Satan” at
... More »

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Internet • marijuana • dating • punk music • online dating • Star Trek • geeks • Ayn Rand • farmers • trends

asphalt is the new grass

 Tailgating: The New Picnic 

No more lounging in a meadow—we picnic in parking lots now

Oct 21, 09 12:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - The good old-fashioned picnic—a blanket, a thermos, the countryside—is a thing of the past. Its replacement: Tailgating, “jammed together, on asphalt, amid exhaust fumes and exhausting vulgarities,” writes Frank Deford for NPR. This new American tradition “crosses all ethnic, racial, and religious lines. You just... More »

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sports • football • concert • picnic • trends • tailgating

OPINION

 Enough With This Cougar Thing 

Who wants to date a Twitter-using, pizza-obsessed 20something anyway?

Oct 19, 09 9:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - The cougar phenomenon is spreading—in the UK, one 39-year-old woman runs a camp teaching aspiring cougars how to attract younger men. “Who cares, you may cry. Women should be fighting back over an ageist, youth-obsessed society,” writes Helen Croydon in the Independent. True as that may... More »

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dating • cougar • women's issues • trends

TREND ALERT

 Pile on the Bracelets, Ladies 

No matter if they're fancy or cheap—today's bracelets are meant to be stacked

Oct 12, 09 1:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - When it comes to bracelets, there's no such thing as too much this season. Take almost any sort of wristwear, mismatch it, and stack it up to your elbow, New York reports. Where to start? Though the most expensive bracelet on its list of recommended bangles, from CC Skye... More »

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fashion • jewelry • Jay-ZTV • trends

 What'd Michelle 
 Buy at Farmers 
 Market? Kale 

No produce yet from White House's own garden, however

Sep 17, 09 7:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - The farmers market Michelle Obama has been pushing for opened near the White House today, Eleanor Barkhorn writes for the Atlantic—though without any produce from the first lady’s own much-publicized garden. Mrs. O was among the first customers, and though she skipped the “Beets Even the President... More »

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Michelle Obama • produce • farmers markets • potatoes • kale • trends • beets • White House garden • hot peppers • cherry tomatoes

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