Spring Fashions

Your spring fashion layout (“Viva LA Difference,” Feb. 25) showed an appalling lack of grace and style. The female models were nothing more than little girls who should be doing their at their parents’ home instead of crawling the streets with those two oily losers. The whole layout made them look as though they’d just come off a 10-day crank spree.

In future issues, please resist the urge to pander to wealthy pedophiles who crawl the Viper Room, hoping to entice some of these lost souls with cash and dope. Leave that unsavory task to classless entities like Details and MTV and get on with your mission, which is to entertain and enlighten with dignity.

Mike Costello

Tustin

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I had hope for your Spring Fashion Issue when I saw the Estee Lauder “Pleasures” ad at the front of the issue. The woman pictured looks happy, and is wearing an attractive outfit that women of all sizes and ages would be comfortable in.

The fashion articles were just more dead-eyed, anorexic teen-aged girls wearing overpriced “designer” clothes in which no adult woman outside the Social X-ray set would be caught dead in.

A suggestion: If you want to keep the fashion fantasy because that is what all big newspapers do, go ahead, but why not follow it with an ad on real spring fashion for real women in the following week’s issue?

Ann Muir Thomas

Irvine

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Can I tell you how boring it is to see yet another fashion spread (great clothes, by the way) featuring models barely old enough to drive? So Calvin Klein 1995! Get with it. I just returned from a San Diego weekend spent seeking chartreuse shoes. I love fashion. I’m over 40. Dig it.

Janis Hashe

Mt. Washington