Fashion: Cool for a Hot Climate

Overweight in luggage but light of heart, one out of every six American adults will be off this winter for what the brochures have promised will be "a heavenly holiday in the sun." If the adult is a woman, vacation preparation will have involved more than permission from the boss and the credit manager at the bank. Long and tedious hours in big city department stores and teeny suburban specialty shoppes will have gone into assembling the proper holiday wardrobe. And once on the decks of the gleaming cruise ship, out beneath the swaying palms or on the beach...

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