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"  Dear FKIA,I know there are no hard rules in fashion anymore, but I can&amp;#039;t get my grandma&amp;#039;s words out of my head: No white after Labor Day. Help!  It&amp;#039;s hard to believe that it was only 50 years ago when women were barely able to wear pants in public, but it&amp;#039;s been just about as long since anyone paid heed to the dictum against white. Still, we all have weak moments when fashion dos and don&amp;#039;ts rattle around our heads, pricking latent insecurities about standing out like the dinner guest who doesn&amp;#039;t know how to use her dessert spoon. The prohibition on post\u2013Labor Day white is probably a vestige of the upper-class habit of wearing linens and cottons to beat the heat before the advent of air-conditioning. After September, the hoity-toits returned from the country to kick off the fall social season in all the color-soaked finery they&amp;#039;d just purchased in Europe. So echewing white was basically a way to announce &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re back!&amp;quot; When I think of modern women in white, two icons come to mind: Bianca Jagger gallivanting around New York during the &amp;#039;70s in that killer three-piece menswear suit and Michelle Pfeiffer as the coke-snorting wife to Al Pacino&amp;#039;s Tony Montana in Scarface. On-screen and off, both ladies had enough attitude to pull off wearing this look-at-me-now color head to toe.  Judging by what designers sent down the runway for fall, it appears that nobody cares who wears what as long as it looks good. There&amp;#039;s more bright white (as opposed to winter white) than ever before. From the ease of the &amp;#039;70s-inspired daywear Stefano Pilati showed at YSL to the voluminous &amp;#039;60s shapes at Stella McCartney and Calvin Klein and the menswear robes at Haider Ackermann, there&amp;#039;s something for everyone. Fresh and modern, the look is a sophisticated choice in a season that runs the gamut from everyday blacks and grays to riotous florals and turquoise. Whites were shown with hair off the face, perhaps a pop of color at the mouth, and toned-down shoes, as if to proclaim that right now, white is the opposite of frivolous. Though the colorless color is definitely not just for the rich anymore, wearing all white still sends a message that&amp;#039;s a bit standoffish. The upshot? Youngsters who white-out can run the risk of looking like novitiates. Which is fine, as long as they&amp;#039;re in church, taking First Communion.  \u2014Submitted by Marion, Jackson, MS "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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