Hip-hugging and bell-bottom pants, bell-sleeved shirts, platform shoes and keen-toed boots are in every aspect of society, promoting a sense of the re-emerging decade. In both club-hopping and everyday wear, the old look is in. Bell bottoms have a more slender fit in the waist and hips, making the brll more pronounced. Hip-huggers are made to fit just to the tail bone, adjusting for the new millenium. The shirts, which range from rayon, cotton, polyester, spandex and v

arious blends, are cut closer to the body without fitting uncomfortably. The bell sleeve shirts, are versatile and can give either a look of sophistication, if worn with stylish pants or a skirt, or can be casual yet sleek, if worn with jeans, while holding to "urban" trends. The platform shoe has even been refined. Boots, shoes, sandals and even sneakers have been "updated" to look like they came straight from the disco era.

Although their clothing does incorporate maby styles from the era of disco, American designers, like Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren, Enyce, Calvin Klein and Donna Karan, aren't the only ones reviving the 70's. These fashions have also been seen on the runways of Paris, Milan, France, Germany, Japan, Italy and Europe. Foreign designing houses, Prada, Gucci and Francois Girbaud, are "borrowing" their newest looks from the decade not so long ago. Actors and actresses have been spotted on movie sets, at premieres and even at awards shows, donning their retro gear/ Celebrities like Julia Roberts, Sanaa Lathan, and Jada Pinkett Smith have even posed for the paparazzi in the look of today's urban trendsetters. So wah

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