Despite the diversity of the era, Glamour editors, in the magazine's January issue, warn against even thinking about trying to bring back the'80s, a decade in which denim was first battered and stonewashed into submission and Swatch watches were worn in multiples:
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It's a long way from the catwalks of Paris to the craggy forests of the San Francisco Peaks, but the two have been linked for more than a decade by the demand for stonewashed denim : new jeans made to look old by laundering them with pieces of volcanic pumice.
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At JC Penney stores, denim is still soft and faded, often in a baggy stonewashed fabric, with carpenter details in the guys'department, while girls are going for denim that's got enough stretch to flaunt curves and a flare at the hemline to show off clunky high-heeled boots.
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Or they could be the stovepipe type by Seven, or the top-stitched ones from Diesel Style Lab, or what one editor called the " cultishly collected " jeans from Katayone Adeli, or the creepy-seeming Dirty Denims introduced in 1998 by Helmut Lang, or the Dolce & Gabbana jeans _ displayed prominently in Milan store windows this season _ that are stonewashed, sanded, mounted on clothes dummies and individually torn before being pinned and mended to create something of the effect the high-schooler effortlessly obtained, all at a retail cost of $ 2, 222.
