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Mon 09 Sep 2009Shoulder pad revival is sign of slump
I AM very interested in the revival of the shoulder pad. It is flying back into our lives – and our jackets and our cardigans and our dresses and our coats – at a crucial moment, writes ANN MARIE HOURIHANE
One hesitates to identify the shoulder pad as an economic or cultural signifier but, what the hell, those economists aren’t shy about explaining things they don’t understand, so let’s just bang ahead with it: the shoulder pad is a sign of war, or as we like to say in this country, of emergency. And there are an awful lot of shoulder pads around.
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