Do You Have Permission for Those Pants?

I have a friend who, with the onset of the painted-on pants of the mid ’90′s, took upon himself the imaginary responsibility of issuing licenses to wear butt-hugging garments. (People forget there was a time when pants had no lycra !) According to a set of admittedly arbitrary standards, he might be forced to revoke Read More

The New Retrochicks Let Men Off the Hook

It’s getting to be unseemly, this spectacle of born-yesterday babes elbowing each other and their elders out of the way to grab the media spotlight and stretch their 15 minutes of fame. Wendy Shalit and Danielle Crittenden, new media sweethearts and authors respectively of the antifeminist disquisitions A Return to Modesty and What Our Mothers Read More