Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, March 27, 1994                   TAG: 9403300184
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Kathy Wilson
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

SPRING FASHION

F. Scott Fitzgerald

So ends one of literature's great masterpieces. The book many define as the Great American Novel.

The tragic tale of one man's search for love and success swept up in a whirlwind of glitter that was the Jazz Age. A man who was alternately tormented and bewitched by a woman who was both his tonic and his poison.

A complicated woman with a very simple name.

Daisy.

She was the peitome of femininity and the way the woman dressed never went out of style.

Femininity.

It's back.

And along with it - the dress. The fashion industry's most enduring tribute to the women who don't consider being described as "ladylike" an insult to their intelligence.

Because even the fashion industry can recognize that being borne back ceaselessly into the past is not only inevitable, but also a pleasure when revisiting a masterpiece.