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the sloppy syndrome; Is it a form of self-expression or an issue of self-esteem.
Byline: Jean Hanff Korelitz
There is, in the story of American fashion, a strangely enduring practice of buying an elegant, expensive garment and dressing it so far down it might have been scored at a rummage sale or picked up at a T-shirt stall on the Venice Beach boardwalk. To my mind, this trend was born in 1978, on page 254 of Judith Krantz's Scruples, the novel that (for better or worse) gave birth to the sex-and-shopping school of popular fiction.
This is the marketing expert named Spider trying to explain to the owner of Scruples, a sedate and refined temple of couture, why her business is tanking:
"I was playing pool at Giorgio's the ...
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