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jss WW K N KtlWV ?AY*3V*.'f RMI Two Sections, 24 Pages Vol. 60 No. 112 University of California, Santa Barbara Friday. April 25,1980 PAGE2A DAILY NEXUS FRIDA Y, APRIL 25. 1980 c Fashion Glitter Twins: Falling Into L.A. versus San Francisco By CRAIG ZEROUNI despressingly, well, uniform. that would be impractical in the Spring Fashion It is a characteristic of man, I Footware is either none, or those south are nearly necessary in the think, to divide things into layer-cake , sandals that look like city by the bay. San Francisco is categories so that he may compare they were stolen from a rubber where women go when they want With the advent of spring, those who hid their bodies them with one another. We seek to rainbow. Shorts, of course, and to stop showing off, and merely behind jeans and sweaters all winter long suddenly compare everything, from com they must by Ocean Pacific — want to look good. rediscover the glories of skin. It’s time to pack away peting brands of can openers to the anything else is immediate Which brings us to accessories, ostracism. Top off this wonderfully the beauty marks of the fashion those old ski parkas, musty sweaters and tacky UCSB sexual prowess of our peers. So it seems appropriate that, in this creative outfit with a T-shirt, trade. Unfortunately, except for an sweatshirts and break out the silky running shorts and issue, we should compare the preferably one that has some occasional ring or gold chain, men the surf and sun t-shirts. fashions of California's glitter clever slogan like “ I drink beer." don’t seem to want to wear many Yet for those who like something a little more classic twins, Los Angeles and San Proof once again tht too much sun trinkets. Cuff links have gone the than the basic gym short, spring is also the time when Francisco. can be bad for your mental health. way of the dinosaur and the For the purposes of this article, When one gets up north, thirfgs Ayatollah’s sanity, and earrings clothing becomes a bit more alluring, a bit, shall we it will become necessary not' only change slightly. Clothing is, after for men -are still considered say, sexier. to divide California fashion into all, a function of climate, and it's slightly kinky, not at all the sort of So if you’re interested in the “latest look” for the new San Francisco and Los Angeles, tough to have your ovaries showing thing you’d wear to midnight fashion season, then take a glance at this latest edition but also to divide the fashions of when it’s always 50 degrees out. Mass. of the Nexus fashion issue. On these pages, we present each of those cities into men’s and But the change isn’t that great — in Women's accessories are much women’s. I realize that this may be most cases, it consists mainly of more diverse, and correspondingly a variety of the clothes available for purchase in local patently offensive to those bleating exchanging cut-off shorts for gym more interesting. The sheer stores, both here in Isla Vista and in downtown Santa bozos who insist on pretending that shorts in women, and abandoning^ number of them is incredible — Barbara. no such divisions exist, that this the OPs, for long levis’ denim for little • disco purses hardly big And yes, for those who like shorts and appreciate the planet is populated with an men. enough for Exxon’s social con glories of skin, we even have the basic gym shorts and drogynous lumps and protoplasm, There is one other difference, but science, little belts that are made to be twice as large as necessary, t-shirt. but that’s tough. Besides, while the line it. once drw between north women have adopted every and south has become fudged, and all manner of things that hang possible article of men’s clothing because while it began in the Bay from, wrap around, or poke into as their own, I have yet to-see a Area, it has slowly found ac the female woman person. man wearing a dress, barring a ceptance in the Southern What, I hear you asking, does a few small countries on the out California culture, though woman wear that pokes into her? S O LES & skirts of civilization. scientists do not yet know why. I No, not that.. I meant earrings. Santa Barbara enjoys a unique refer ' here to the infamous Earrings are only worth men socio-geographic position m Birkenstock. tioning, however, because it has RESOLES California’s culture. This city is as Never has there been a more always been of interest to me that Running & Tennis Shoes & Resoling far south as any virgin lungs from powerful statement against the the same women who insist that NIKE • BROOKS • NEW BALANCE • SAUCONY • ETONIC the north dare travel, fearing as overuse of drugs. The fashion shaving their legs is “ barbaric” DOLFIN • MOVING COMFORT • SUB-4 • ADIDAS • ETC. they do the onset of Hollywood and people staple of the granola and and "unnatural” think that it's F R E E RESOLE ON ALL SHOES PURCHASED AT REGULAR PRICE hyperactivity. And people who call hot tub set, Birkenstocks are vivid real normal to punch three, four, on Bus Line No. 11 • 4419 Hollister • 964-2222 Southern California home draw proof of the lengths to which or more holes in their earlobes, so 2 blocks from bike trail near Modoc their nothern border at Santa capitalists can exploit those very that they can hang things there. STUDENT & TRACK DISCOUNTS Barbara, convinced that venturing dim-wits who protest it loudest. It But I see that I’ve gotten slightly Running Resold $10.50 Tennis Resole $12.50 farther north will force them into a . is amazing, at least, that the same off the topic. What, in conclusion, coma of terminal mellow. Because people who espouse a return to can we say about the difference of this, UCSB has become the nature and simplicity would line up between the fashions of San perfect place to observe the best of to pay $50, $60 or even $70 for a half Francisco and Los Angeles? To be both fashion worlds. of a pair of shoes. honest, not much. Most people will Lutterai Campus Ministry Properly introduced, then, let us But so much for. casual wear. already have drawn lines in this begin. Some attention must be paid to the sort of thing, and it is never easy to Women's fashion in Los Angeles more formal modes of dress change their minds after that has the air of sun all through it — because, while you’d never know it happens. Service at Goleta Beach indeed, there are entire cliques on from being on this campus, they do What’s worse, however, is that neither city is likely to learn Sunday 9 a. m. the beaches of L.A. that confer exist. status by now little can be worn In San Francisco, men do not anything from the other. Los Volleyball and Brunch without being arested. In L.A., seem to have figured out just wha Angeleans are convinced that they Everyone Welcome women wear less at night that their getting dressed up means. Except run the world from Malibu, and so San Francisco sisters wear at high for their L.L. Bean’s, their idea of reject the advice of everyone but Bruce Wollenberg, Campus Pastor noon. The best example of this can going out on the town is to put on a their agents. San Franciscans, on be seen each and every spring day clean Pendleton. For them, a the other hand, are born and bred on this campus: the UCSB major fashion purchase is a new with a sort of biological hatred of Uniform. Grateful Dead T-shirt. the south that has never been The Uniform is simple, flat Still, that may be preferable to adequately explaind. Children in tering, and allows plenty of skin to their brothes in L.A. Only in Los S.F. will tell you that all people show, but not so much that one Angeles can grown men be seen from L.A. are jerks, even though could be accused of rolling one's wearing white jumpsuits as they they have never met one. It sounds T.A. for grades. From the ground stroll down the street. Oh, they’re ' suspiciously like the way white up, the Uniform is as follows: so cute. And Los Angeles is chest- children were raised in the south to Peds. Peds are those little cotton hair heaven — if you don’t show hate blacks, even though most of socks that stop at the ankle. The yours, you risk being called a them had never actually spoken to only way you can tell they’re there heterosexual, or worse. one. is by the little fuzzy ball attached But what seems to be pagan With such cultural schisms, it to the back of them. These are overindulgence in men is won doesn’t seem likely that there will worn under: derful fashion sense in women. The be much of a fusion of fashion Tennis shoes. The status of women of Los Angeles, for ideas. Which, when you think about tennis shoes would be an entire whatever reasons, take more care it, is really too bad. The two cities article by itself, so we leave it and put in more time in dressing could learn a lot from each other.