Nov 15, 2008 8:12 AM

Bonfire of the Vanities

(((Time for some ritual scourging of the underdressed over at newly distraught BUSINESS WEEK.
Yeah, I bet female college dropouts in tight T-shirts cost America seven hundred billion.
Oh the humanity.)))

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_47/b4109070638235.htm?link_position=link3

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