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Fall 2009 NYFW trends: A call to arms

The fall season’s new erogenous zone isn’t a heaving, surgically enhanced bosom or mile-long legs. It’s toned arms and shoulders, which fitness buff Obama has advertised as her best feature by wearing sleeveless-sheath and shift dresses, most recently on the March cover of Vogue magazine. — Booth Moore Pictured: Michael Kors

The fall season’s new erogenous zone isn’t a heaving, surgically enhanced bosom or mile-long legs. It’s toned arms and shoulders, which fitness buff Obama has advertised as her best feature by wearing sleeveless-sheath and shift dresses, most recently on the March cover of Vogue magazine.

— Booth Moore

Pictured: Michael Kors  (Jonas Gustavsson and Peter Stigter / For The Times)

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Never before have I seen so many arm- and shoulder-baring styles for the fall season — jackets cut out around the collarbone at Michael Kors and the shoulders at Alexander Wang, one-shouldered and one-sleeved dresses at Kors, Derek Lam, Rodarte, Calvin Klein, Herrera and De La Renta. There were shoulder pads too, a blast from the 1980s past, at Marc Jacobs and Donna Karan.

This call to arms is power dressing for the aughts. And I, for one, am looking forward to seeing women flex some muscle.

Pictured: Michael Kors

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  (Jonas Gustavsson and Peter Stigter / For The Times)

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Alexander Wang  (Jonas Gustavsson and Peter Stigter / For The Times)

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