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Recently I was asked by a young male seminar participant, "I've got an interview with an advertising agency next week. What do I wear?" The reality is, most job interviews are a competition. It's not just how you look, act, and express yourself that matters. It's how you look, act, and express yourself compared with other candidates. If you apply to a dot-com business where everyone is in jeans and T-shirts and you show up in a suit, you won't look like you belong. Conversely, if you apply to an investment bank where business formal is the norm and you show up in khakis and a golf...

A gay student who sued his Ohio high school for prohibiting him from wearing a T-shirt designed to urge tolerance of gays will be allowed to wear the shirt to school whenever he chooses. A judgment agreed to by Maverick Couch and the Waynesville Local School District was entered Monday in federal court in Cincinnati. It allows the teenager to wear the "Jesus Is Not A Homophobe" T-shirt and says the district must pay $20,000 in damages and court costs. The lawsuit alleged that the district northeast of Cincinnati had violated Couch's freedom of expression rights.

Nike Inc. is being blasted for replacing its signature “Just Do It’’ slogan on some T-shirts with the phrases “Dope,’’ “Get High’’ and “Ride Pipe.’’ The shoe and athletic apparel company said the terms are part of the lingo used by the skaters, snowboarders and participants in other extreme sports it’s trying to target with the shirts. But critics say the slogans endorse drug use. Boston’s mayor has asked Nike to remove a display of the shirts. And an Oregon antidrug group condemned them in a letter sent to 1,500 people — including some at The White House Office...

Recently I was asked by a young male seminar participant, "I've got an interview with an advertising agency next week. What do I wear?" The reality is, most job interviews are a competition. It's not just how you look, act, and express yourself that matters. It's how you look, act, and express yourself compared with other candidates. If you apply to a dot-com business where everyone is in jeans and T-shirts and you show up in a suit, you won't look like you belong. Conversely, if you apply to an investment bank where business formal is the norm and you show up in khakis and a golf...

Everton has signed a three-year deal with Nike Inc., joining Manchester United and Arsenal with sponsorships from the company. Nike will design Everton's official team merchandise, including match shirts and training gear for next season in the deal announced Thursday. Everton chief executive Robert Elstone says "we are confident that our supporters will be excited by the new partnership, with all of us looking forward to seeing our new home shirt this summer. "

Shipping boxes and plastic bins are stacked all over the room, and there are T-shirts and pieces of felt piled atop folding tables. This is the workshop for The Green Egg, although it sometimes doubles as Tracey Davidow's Hamilton living room. At one table, Amanda Clauson of Melrose is cutting tiny pink hearts out of felt, which will later be glued as a design on the T-shirt. The larger pieces - elephants and hippos and carrots and locomotives - are cut by Haverhill-based Boston Lasers, said Davidow, and assembled here.

Who knew that Tim Gunn, who lends such endearing support to aspiring fashion designers on Bravo's "Project Runway," could be so mean to the common woman? Who knew that he could think so badly of us all? In tonight's premiere of "Tim Gunn's Guide To Style," the fashion-maven-of-the-moment reacts with abject horror at some photos of a woman's wardrobe. "Oh my God! It's all jeans and T-shirts!" he gasps. "And they're ugly! Every single proportion's wrong! And the color's not clever!"

Genoa players stripped off their shirts in a gesture of apology to angry, flare-throwing fans Sunday as their protests forced a 45-minute suspension of the team's 4-1 loss to Siena in Serie A. Genoa is in danger of being relegated and the gesture was an apparent way for the players to acknowledge they were not worthy of wearing the club's shirt. The unusual scenes came as protests broke out among Genoa supporters early in the second half as their team trailed 4-0. Fans threw flares onto the pitch and climbed atop barriers as they were faced by stewards...

If you didn't buy tickets for Saturday's Gilt Groupe Warehouse Sale before they sold out last week, you get another shot Thursday. At 10 a.m., a limited number of additional tickets will be released at www.giltcity.com/boston/warehouseboston. (The sale ends at 10 p.m. Friday; if tickets sell out earlier, you can add your name to a waitlist.) The warehouse sale will feature racks upon racks of shoes, jewelry, home wares, and covetable duds for guys, gals, and kids. Tickets are $5, $10, and $15; the higher the price, the earlier you can get in. (The first time slot is 10 a.m. to noon; the...

DAMARISCOTTA, Maine - Robert H. Reny Sr., who built a fledgling retail clothing business into a 14-store chain and a Maine fixture, has died after a long illness. He was 83. The Damariscotta resident, who sold shirts and other items door to door in the winter of 1949 to help keep his struggling first store going, later grew his business so that his stores sold shoes, food products, and many other items. Fortune Magazine praised Mr. Reny in 2004, saying his business, with its stores located mainly in Maine’s downtowns, had positioned itself shrewdly for competition against...

The men's crew of Tufts University was almost up the creek without a paddle this weekend after a suspension threatened to keep them out of the New England Championships. The punishment was imposed by the team's own coaches after the rowers showed up at a spring fling event in t-shirts bearing the unauthorized slogan "Check out our cox. " An anonymous observer, spotting sexism, filed a "bias incident" report. Judging from student message boards, the disciplinary action was widely regarded as unfair.

By Matt Byrne, Town Correspondent The president of Tufts University Thursday lifted a suspension from competition levied against the men's rowing team that was handed out after members printed sexually suggestive T-shirts the rowers wore to an annual campus event. The reinstatement, requested by university President Anthony P. Monaco, comes in time for this weekend's New England Rowing Championships held outside Shrewsbury, in which the team's 31 rowers may now compete, the university said.

Shipping boxes and plastic bins are stacked all over the room, and there are T-shirts and pieces of felt piled atop folding tables. This is the workshop for The Green Egg, although it sometimes doubles as Tracey Davidow's Hamilton living room. At one table, Amanda Clauson of Melrose is cutting tiny pink hearts out of felt, which will later be glued as a design on the T-shirt. The larger pieces - elephants and hippos and carrots and locomotives - are cut by Haverhill-based Boston Lasers, said Davidow, and assembled here.

Q. I just started my dream job. (I literally used to dream about working at this particular establishment when I was a child.) Now I'm in a bit of a jam. There's a man I work with, indirectly. He is higher up the chain. I was chummy with him the first few weeks (purely platonic), and he had a big birthday bash. I was invited and wanted to come, but I fell ill and could not make it. During one of our talks, I told him I was going on a cruise with my family and would be stopping by a special place in Mexico that's owned by a rock star.

Genoa players stripped off their shirts in a gesture of apology to angry, flare-throwing fans Sunday as their protests forced a 45-minute suspension of the team's 4-1 loss to Siena in Serie A. Genoa is in danger of being relegated and the gesture was an apparent way for the players to acknowledge they were not worthy of wearing the club's shirt. The unusual scenes came as protests broke out among Genoa supporters early in the second half as their team trailed 4-0. Fans threw flares onto the pitch and climbed atop barriers as they were faced by stewards in riot gear at the Luigi...

A 9-year-old Boston boy says divine intervention saved his life when a bullet fired in the street outside his home came through his bedroom wall and left a smoking hole in the Boston Celtics jersey he was wearing. Preston Stevens says he felt some sort of force push him before the bullet went through his Rajon Rondo jersey Tuesday afternoon, barely missing his torso. He says "it was like God" pushed him. He saw and smelled smoke. The third-grader's mother, Sharon Jackson, says she heard a series of pops at about 3 p.m. and yelled at her children to get down.

Baseball wants to paint the town red. Way back when, major league teams nearly always wore white jerseys at home and gray on the road. Now, some teams have so many kinds of uniforms that players can hardly keep track. "I imagine it appeals to women, it's flashier," Braves pitcher Mike Hampton said. In their search for sartorial splendor, not to mention dollars from extra sales, Colorado, Houston, and the New York Mets each will use five sets of uniforms this year. That makes for some confusion.

FREEPORT, Maine - L.L. Bean will use a designer who once worked for Abercrombie & Fitch and Ralph Lauren and later founded the Rogues Gallery line of urban chic clothing to create a new signature line of clothing. Hunters and fishermen need not panic, however, because no one’s abandoning Leon Leonwood Bean’s outdoors roots. Alex Carleton will take L.L. Bean’s classic style elements and give them a modern look that’s meant to be slimmer, hipper, and more urban but not a radical departure from L.L. Bean’s traditional tartan plaid shirts, thick sweaters, and rubber-soled...

CINCINNATI - A gay student who sued his public high school for prohibiting him from wearing a T-shirt designed to urge tolerance of gays will be allowed to wear the shirt for at least one day. The southwest Ohio school district agreed in a conference among attorneys and the judge to allow 16-year-old Maverick Couch to wear the shirt with the message "Jesus Is Not A Homophobe" on April 20, according to federal court records. But Couch's lawsuit charging that Waynesville High School and the Wayne Local School District are violating his freedom of expression rights is proceeding.

MIAMI - From the T-shirt and hoodie sales to trademarking slogans like "Justice for Trayvon" to the pass-the-hat rallies that bring in thousands, the case of an unarmed black teenager killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer is quickly turning into an Internet-fueled brand. Websites are hawking key chains bearing Trayvon Martin's likeness. His parents have bought two trademarks, saying they hope to raise money to help other families struck by tragedy. Trayvon clothes, bumper stickers, buttons, and posters are up for grabs on eBay.