Would You Wear This?

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Moulin Rouge isn't exactly setting the box office on fire, but you wouldn't know it from the store windows at Bloomingdale's, not to mention a huge feature in Vogue's May issue, all touting the movie's high-style fashions. Sure, women started wearing vests, ties and baggy pants after Annie Hall and slouched around in off-the-shoulder sweatshirts after Flashdance. But Hollywood's recent efforts to force-feed movie-inspired fashions to the American public have met with only mixed success.