For young Bill Blass the local cinemas promised another world, of glamour, where people did nothing all day except wear nice clothes and have a good time.

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Instead of kidding yourself that a particularly nice get-up on the screen will fit, you can look at a virtual representation of the clothes on your body via a Web cam.

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Fold your nice clothes away in the closet and become a potato farmer or something for a few years.

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And I think a lot of women, while they like to wear nice clothes and like to cook for themselves or for anyone else, they're really looking for the strength that a spouse, that just happens to be and continues to be a woman in this country, but they're looking for the strength and the intelligence that they can bring.

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For years Rebecca Brough, a Hollywood stylist, refused to use leather or fur when putting celebrities in nice clothes for public appearances and magazine shoots.

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When I came back out, we got his plastic bag of clothes and cane together and gave the nice World Services employee a tip to take him downstairs to wait for the shuttle.

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Our research indicates that these consumers have their eyes on the same things generations of Americans have demanded: a nice home, one or more cars, modern appliances and conveniences, beautiful clothes, electronics, a good education for the kids, better health care, and more travel and leisure.

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But a nice cushion remains from his back catalog, acting gigs and 50 Cent-themed videogames, books, clothes and headphones.

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And I thought about it for a second, you know, because I knew most of the guys I knew who dealt, they had nice clothes, you know, they had pagers, they had all these things that I really wanted at the time.

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