The Enigma of Fashion
Of all pressures young people face, the most pernicious is that of fashion. By
this is meant the current vogue in dress. The teenagers, who are so glib when
speak of individuality, are turned into a homogeneous mass by the latest craze
in fashion. How can youngsters who vehemently resist advice from the older 
generation become so malleable in the hands of those who "make" fashion? Perhaps
the sudden shifts in fashion occur fortuitously. Or is there some group who,
through legerdemain, switches styles and customs on us right before our eyes?
Today's teenagers seem to be quite gullible when it comes to embracing the latest
trend in fashions. By then, they have their elders as sage examples to follow.


by hook or by crook--any way at all, at any cost.
He had bought the white elephant without rhyme o reason; now he had to get
rid of it by hook or by crook.