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Put On Your Cyber Dress, Baby

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Here’s a selected sampling of fashion sources for the self-respecting cyberpunk:

* AMEBA, 732 Haight St., San Francisco. Mail-order catalogue: (800) 292-6322. Specializes in optical-print fashions. Prices: $15 for a pillbox hat to $79 for a long-sleeved trapeze dress; men’s shorts, Lycra bike shorts, baggy pants and mock turtlenecks range from about $30 to $45. Also, a children’s line called Wee Amebas.

* Famous Melissa and Company, 545 Sutter St., San Francisco; (415) 788-1866. Catalogue available. Specializes in computer-chip jewelry and clothing. In Los Angeles, the Art Star store at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Flower and 5th streets, carries blouses and dresses priced from $3,000 to $5,000 and earrings from $15 to $80. In Pasadena, Sonnie’s, 1007 Fair Oaks Ave., stocks earrings priced from $20 to $65. For the patriotic, there is a computer-chip flag for $12,000 at the San Francisco studio. Studio designs also for rent.

* Allison Stern Design, 2325 3rd St., San Francisco; (415) 252-0303. Catalogues available. Specializes in techno jewelry and objects, from bolo ties and brooches to jewelry boxes and picture frames, priced from about $50 to $100. In Los Angeles at Free Hand, Elements and Fred Segal stores.

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* Tune Town. Party planners who use virtual-reality machines, smart bars, projections of psychedelic imagery on screens, black-light rooms and retail cyber chic. Information: (415) 267-4886.

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