http://www.post-gazette.com/lifestyle/fashion Fashion news and features en-us Copyright 2009, post-gazette.com. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 23:58:22 -0500 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011692-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml BY now, most high school dress codes have just about done away with the guesswork. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011693-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml SEVERAL years ago, as Labor Day approached and parents nationwide began that end-of-summer ritual I know all too well -- packing the children off to college -- I found myself facing a new and particularly fraught task: preparing to return my son not to college but to war, to the mountain passes northeast of Kandahar, Afghanistan, near the border with Pakistan. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011694-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml FIVE days a week, Michael Kiernan, 50, a computer network administrator, makes the 90-minute commute home from the Bronx County Courthouse, where he works, to suburban Long Beach on Long Island. Like a lot of New Yorkers, he has it down to a science. He leaves work at 4:45, walk-jogs across 161st Street, then hurries into the subway, where he gets into the first car on the D train. He stands by the door, riding two stops to 145th Street, then races up the stairs for the A train, a downtown express. Again he Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011695-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml RAPUNZEL has nothing on Avery, a 10-inch injection-molded mall princess whose flaxen hair cascades to her knees. Rapunzel might also have envied Avery's smart wardrobe and her arsenal of styling tools, from thumb-size lip gloss to a tiny curling iron. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011696-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml JAY-Z started spreadin' the news in September, and since then he has taken every prominent opportunity to remind us: he has a candidate for a new New York anthem, and he wants our votes. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09308/1010684-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml YEARS ago, my clique habituated a Lower East Side restaurant called Hat (translated from El Sombrero for N.Y.C. natives). The enchiladas were O.K.; the main attractions were the cheap margaritas, the salsa jukebox and the nervy, unreasonable mood of the place, largely delivered by the indifferent goth waitress who always wore an enormous black turban. Hat was an oasis of counterculture that soothed feelings of general alienation and dismay by ramping them up a bit, into a pleasingly marginal sense of being Wed, 4 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09308/1010685-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml A FEW months ago, my daughter Zoe came home from college and showed me a little word game she was playing on her iPhone. Wed, 4 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09308/1010686-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml EVEN on a bike, Mark-Paul Gosselaar can't always ride away from his résumé. Wed, 4 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500