Letters: Apr. 26, 1982

Armani's Style

To the Editors:

Your article on Fashion Designer Giorgio Armani [April 5] was an exhilarating and refreshing story. He has done wonders with a bolt of fabric, and has an extremely well-groomed approach toward dressing a woman. If you've never experienced the feeling of wearing an Armani, you've never experienced comfort or freedom in clothes. I'm proud to flaunt his wings on the back of my jeans.

Lisa M. Sarbach Laramie, Wyo.

Since the Garden of Eden, Eve's descendants have covered themselves sensibly and attractively only twice—with the Greek chiton 2,000 years ago and, in the late '50s, with the designs of Balenciaga. Now in their "liberated" period, women seem more eager than ever to become enslaved to the follies and fads of the fops of fashion.

Andrew T. Halmay Toronto

If, as the cover story states, "clothes are the fabric of history, the texture of time," one can only hope that history will not repeat itself.

Harold O. Christensen San Francisco

Just reading about Armani and his creations gave me a feeling of elegance.

Ethel Wilde Baltimore

The girls who are modeling Armani's fashions look as if they had raided a thrift shop and come out with clothing that wasn't in their size. Since my words will carry little weight, I'll turn to Dorothy Parker, who summed it up rather nicely in her short story Just a Little One: "You mean those clothes of hers are intentional? My heavens, I always thought she was on her way out of a burning building."

Philip Lawrence New York City

Nuclear Threat

Your article on nuclear war focused on the U.S.-Soviet stalemate [March 29]. What about all those Third World countries that will soon have nuclear capability? They have so little to lose, and our large cities make such wonderful targets.

Pat E. Perrin San Diego

The trick that the Pentagon's Thomas K. Jones has proposed for personal survival in the event of a nuclear war calls for true ingenuity. How does a person crawl into a hole, cover the hole with a couple of doors and then pile three feet of dirt on top of them?

Paul Krawitz Buffalo

We here in Europe have been waiting with bated breath for the awakening of our allies across the water. The most important phrase in your article is "nuclear weapons have made war obsolete." I fear our world leaders are dinosaurs, only they haven't yet realized it.

Rowena Marker Leder Grassington, England

Let the Soviets come and get me. I'd rather live with mega-Communism than live to see megadeath.

Cindy Nathanson Los Angeles

I have never claimed that the California Bilateral Nuclear Weapons Freeze Initiative was my "brainchild." The genealogy of "an idea whose time has come" can get murky, but in this particular case, legitimate claims to parenthood should include the voters from western Massachusetts, who passed a resolution resembling ours, along with a number of my fellow Californians.

Harold Willens

Campaign Coordinator

Californians for a Bilateral

Nuclear Arms Freeze

Los Angeles

Yankelovich Poll